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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Early last year, the hydropower company Nature and People First set its sights on Black Mesa, a mountainous region on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona. The mesa’s steep drop offered ideal terrain for gravity-based energy storage, and the […]

US lawmakers are largely skeptical of the prospect of talks following the vote on enhanced subsidies Thursday.

Financial Services Chair French Hill is optimistic about the proposals advancing this time.

Washington’s $150M African expansion deal with Silicon Valley’s Zipline reveals its new “America first” approach to global assistance.

Taxing the rich should bring a smile to your face. It certainly brings one to mine.

The image was grotesque. In March, a camera-ready Kristi Noem posed in front of a group of shirtless, shaved, tattooed men crammed inside a metal holding cell in a foreign prison. The photo-op (and video message) was taken during the Homeland Security secretary’s tour of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, where the Trump administration had […]

American democracy seems to be falling into an ever-greater crisis, with public approval of our political institutions continuing to fall as Donald Trump’s presidency becomes more and more authoritarian. Behind it all, both the Democratic and Republican Parties continue to be dominated by the interests of large, wealthy donors. Some of the United States’ political […]

The White House’s newly published National Security Strategy devotes just over half a page to Africa.