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• 07/23/2004 -- Planet can handle global warming without legal help
  Grandstanding lawyers want to save the planet. Who will save the planet from grandstanding lawyers?
• 07/16/2004 -- Threat of trade move against OPEC misreads oil market
  The subject of oil casts a strange spell on some politicians. It distorts their perceptions.
• 07/12/2004 -- Senate muffs chance to address abuse of tort system
  Through an interesting coincidence, tort reform has roared back onto the US political stage.
• 07/02/2004 -- Supply needs more attention in energy policy-making
  Has the world's largest energy-consuming country learned anything from its recent bump against the limits of supply?
• 06/28/2004 -- Alleged resource curse a problem for oil and industry
  Economists increasingly discuss a phenomenon with potential to keep companies away from international exploration and production opportunities.
• 06/21/2004 -- GLOBAL LINKS SEEN CRUCIAL TO GROWTH IN MIDDLE EAST
  The cultural and political turbulence of the Middle East has a demographic dimension with potential to aggravate or relieve growing tensions.
• 06/11/2004 -- Global warming facts easy to distinguish from fiction
  With global-warming alarmists hoping for help from a disaster movie called "The Day After Tomorrow," studies in the real world tell how much their agenda would cost.
• 06/07/2004 -- Why isn't price pain curbing us gasoline consumption?
  While signs of relief from the widely reported pain of high gasoline prices are beginning to appear in the US, a crucial factor hasn't eased.
• 05/28/2004 -- Role of mergers overstated in GAO fuel-price study
  Even if it's right—which it probably isn't—a new report by the US General Accounting Office on oil-industry mergers amounts to whistling in a storm.
• 05/14/2004 -- Tense fuel market highlights need to end SUV tax breaks
  Steadily rising gasoline prices in an election year will intensify pressure on politicians to curb consumption.
• 05/07/2004 -- Abu Ghraib misconduct limits what's possible in Iraq
  Disclosure of inhuman treatment of prisoners in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison degrades US legitimacy in Iraq.
• 04/23/2004 -- Market conditions cast doubt on alleged Saudi price deal
  A media frenzy has erupted over suggestions that rulers of Saudi Arabia promised to moderate oil prices this summer in order to influence presidential elections in the US.
• 04/16/2004 -- Despite fighting, Iraqi oil industry resumes operation
  Despite fierce fighting in parts of the country, Iraq's oil industry is nearly back on its achy feet.
• 04/08/2004 -- Hope for Mideast democracy survives conference failure
  Hope for democracy lingers in the Middle East despite the late-March collapse of an Arab summit on the subject.
• 04/02/2004 -- Antagonism clear in Kerry's plan for gasoline prices
  Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), the leading challenger in this year's presidential race, has provided a glimpse of what life would be like for the oil and gas industry if he occupied the White House.
• 03/19/2004 -- Madrid bombings highlight terrorist links in Iraq
  If Spanish voters are right, the US is right to press the fight against terrorism in Iraq.
• 03/12/2004 -- Outrage displacing issues in US presidential race
  The US presidential race threatens to become a nagging contest.
• 03/05/2004 -- Iraq's best weapon against its enemies is democracy
  Can Iraqis govern themselves? Or are skeptics correct that some people just aren't cut out for democracy?
• 02/27/2004 -- World Bank review raises tough issue of resource curse
  In the World Bank's Extractive Industries Review (EIR), the oil and gas industry has something to regret more than the recommendation that the bank quit funding oil projects.
• 02/20/2004 -- EU official scorned for sensible talk on Kyoto treaty
  A dust-up in Europe over the Kyoto Protocol typifies discussion there on climate change.