DAKOTA DIGITAL REVIEW………. There was remarkably little fanfare for the 70th anniversary of President Eisenhower’s December 8, 1953 “Atoms for Peace” speech before the United Nations. Seven months before that anniversary, Time Magazine featured an essay headlined, “Nuclear Energy’s Moment Has Come,” by Charles Oppenheimer, grandson of the man who led the Manhattan Project. History,…
NATIONAL REVIEW………. The election of Donald Trump highlights a great divide in the energy paths chosen by the U.S., China, and the EU, the three great powers that together account for over half the world’s GDP. The U.S. now joins China in the pursuit of low-cost energy dominated by fossil fuels, while the EU is doubling…
CITY JOURNAL………. Unsurprisingly, the news that China’s DeepSeek AI had leapfrogged competitors triggered an investor sell-off. It dragged down Nvidia, the American chipmaker powering the AI revolution, as well as related tech stocks, from Micron and Advanced Micro Devices to manufacturing juggernaut TSMC. There is, after all, some wisdom in worrying that we don’t know who…
CITY JOURNAL………. President Trump’s Day One executive order declaring an “energy emergency” is political hyperbole, some say, even if they agree with the general thrust. But the energy situation does present real urgency.
WALL STREET JOURNAL………. President Trump declared an “energy emergency” in one of his Inauguration Day executive orders. The fallout from that order will affect myriad global organizations, especially ones that promote or invest in the so-called energy transition.
CITY JOURNAL………. Not since the presidency of James K. Polk, circa 1845, has a single president made such a large change as Joe Biden in the territorial scale of the United States. Polk, however, expanded America’s domain by 768 million acres, adding Texas, Oregon, and Mexico’s ceded territory, while Biden has contracted it—at least in terms of…
