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• 07/18/2003 -- Who cares who knew what about Iraq and Niger?
  Given the challenge of rebuilding Iraq and helping the fractured country establish self-governance, who needs controversy over a presidential remark about uranium from Niger?
• 07/11/2003 -- Good times ahead for us refiners investing to survive
  Good times lie ahead for US refiners. But there's a catch: Only survivors will enjoy them.
• 07/03/2003 -- INSURANCE ANALOGY FAILS AS ARGUMENT FOR WARMING PRECAUTION
  A quaint argument now circulating for global-warming preventives creates an analogy with insurance.
• 06/27/2003 -- PROSECUTION SHOULD PROCEED IN KAZAKH BRIBERY SCANDAL
  The bribery scandal over oil deals in Kazakhstan gives international companies plenty to worry about.
• 06/20/2003 -- PIVOTAL MOMENT APPROACHES FOR US-IRANIAN RELATIONS
  For better or worse, relations between the US and Iran—such as they are—soon will change. The approach of a pivotal moment gives the US reason to ponder a world in which it and this vitally important, strategically located supplier of oil and gas managed to get along.
• 06/13/2003 -- LAWYERS TARGET CO₂ AS AIR POLLUTANT; WHY NOT WATER?
  A lawsuit by state lawyers from three East Coast states focuses overdue attention on an insidious effort to categorize carbon dioxide as an air pollutant.
• 05/30/2003 -- NEW POLITICAL FORCE SPROUTS IN BAGHDAD: SATELLITE TV
  As a visible sign of change in Iraq, the Apr. 9 toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue in central Baghdad is hard to beat. But something new comes close.
• 05/16/2003 -- ATTACKS IN RIYADH DRAW ATTENTION TO FIERY WAHHABISM
  The May 12 bombings in Riyadh focus attention on xenophobic rant from Saudi mosques. The scrutiny disturbs Saudi Arabia. But it's necessary.
• 05/09/2003 -- ANXIETY OVER US OIL IMPORTS BREEDS BAD ENERGY IDEAS
  The US government needs to relax about imported oil, anxiety over which makes serious people say and propose silly things.
• 05/02/2003 -- GASOLINE HOARD ANOTHER BAD ENERGY IDEA FOR CALIFORNIA
  Under direction of the state legislature, the California Energy Commission last month held workshops to consider a government stockpile of gasoline. California thus seems ready to extend its astonishing record of disastrous decisions about energy.
• 04/25/2003 -- BASIC QUESTION STALLS IRAQI PROGRESS: WHO OWNS THE OIL?
  Iraq could be selling oil already if not for politics.
• 04/17/2003 -- CELEBRITY PROTESTORS OF WAR IN IRAQ LOSE CREDIBILITY
  A welcome casualty of the war in Iraq is credibility of the celebrity activist.
• 04/11/2003 -- SOBER MESSAGE UNDERLIES IRAQI OFFICIAL'S COMIC OBSTINACY
  There is much suspicion to be overcome in Arab countries regarding coalition motives in Iraq.
• 04/04/2003 -- INVASION OF IRAQ FEROCIOUS YET CAREFUL NEAR HOLY SITES
  The attack against the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been simultaneously ferocious and careful. Saddam's loyalists resisting the advance on Baghdad have taken an unbelievable pounding from the air and ground. Yet when a group of them Apr. 2 shot at allied troops from a mosque outside Najaf, south of Baghdad, there was no return fire. Under the pressure of combat, such restraint is remarkable. And it might turn out to be pivotal to both the war and Iraqi reconstruction.
• 03/28/2003 -- ENVIRONMENTALISM IS ABOUT POLITICS, NOT RELIGION
  Environmentalists and their friends in high office go too far when they decorate politics with religion.
• 03/21/2003 -- BUSINESS SCANDALS TEMPER CHIRAC'S MORALIZING ABOUT IRAQ
  What looks in France like righteous resistance to war can easily seem elsewhere to be commercially motivated defense of a dangerous tyrant.
• 03/14/2003 -- SHORTAGE: FEARFUL WORD FOR CONDITION THAT NEVER EXISTS
  Nobody likes the word "shortage." A connotation of panic shrouds the term. The fear seems strong that utterance of "shortage" among a group of consumers might lead to a run on available supply, hoarding, and soaring prices.
• 03/07/2003 -- WAR THREAT STRAINS TYRANTS' APPEALS FOR ARAB UNITY
  The pressure of imminent war has widened fissures in the Arab world.
• 02/21/2003 -- UNBRIDLED ARROGANCE HURTS DEBATES OVER CLIMATE AND IRAQ
  Debate over Iraq has fallen victim to the type of political arrogance that destroyed discourse on climate change.
• 02/14/2003 -- STOCK DATA SHOW OIL MARKET SHORT, EXPLAIN PRICE ZOOM
  Consumers of oil products are restless again. They should be.