Energy

Pipe Dreams

Why Mitt Romney can't free America from Middle East oil.

BY MICHAEL LEVI | AUGUST 23, 2012

Boom Time

Energy independence is in the United States' reach.

SEPT/OCT 2012

Countdown to Zero Dollars

The U.S. opened the door to nuclear trade with India -- and got nothing.

BY TOM HUNDLEY | AUGUST 9, 2012

Emerging Power Crisis

Will India's massive blackouts put an end to the South Asian miracle?

BY CHARLES K. EBINGER, GOVINDA AVASARALA | AUGUST 1, 2012

It's Not as Easy as 1-2-3

The Obama team fights over how to promote nuclear energy without promoting nuclear weapons.

BY JEFFREY LEWIS | AUGUST 1, 2012

Word Is Bond

Has President Obama kept Candidate Obama's campaign promises?

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | JULY 23, 2012

Choke Point

In threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is risking more than war. It just might make the vitally important oil shipping route irrelevant.

BY GAL LUFT | JULY 19, 2012

The Era of Oil Abundance

Meet the winners and losers of the coming age of plenty.

BY STEVE LEVINE | JULY 17, 2012

Slippery Business

Inside Big Oil's little hint that it's picking Romney to win.

BY STEVE LEVINE | JULY 11, 2012

Made in the Shade

How cloudy Germany became the world's solar superpower, and then lost everything.

BY AARON WIENER | JULY 9, 2012

The Sudanese Stand Up

The best way to help the protesters in Sudan? Cover the story.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JUNE 27, 2012

Does China Want to Dominate Afghanistan?

If only.

BY STEVE LEVINE | JUNE 26, 2012

The Caspian's New Sea Monsters

The post-Soviet region has begun a high-stakes arms race, fueled by competition for recently discovered oil fields.

JUNE 22, 2012

Good Riddance

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Nayef was a menace. We should be happy he's gone, but worried about the aging House of Saud he leaves behind.

BY SIMON HENDERSON | JUNE 18, 2012

Mad Libs: The Geopolitics of Energy

What does the U.S. oil and gas boom mean for international energy markets and climate change initiatives? We asked top experts, and here's what they told us.

JULY/AUGUST 2012

How Is Energy Remaking the World?

To navigate the complicated new politics of oil and gas, FP asked the author of The Quest and leading U.S. energy historian to help shape our latest survey -- and guide us through the results.

BY DANIEL YERGIN | JULY/AUGUST 2012

Think Again: The American
Energy Boom

Yes, oil and gas made in the USA is surging. But does that really liberate us from the Middle East?

BY MICHAEL LEVI | JULY/AUGUST 2012

Pit of Dreams

Can China's rust belt reinvent itself as a tourist destination?

BY JONATHAN KAIMAN | JUNE 14, 2012

Swing Producers

Ten states where the energy debate could decide the U.S. election in November.

BY LOGAN BAYROFF | JUNE 12, 2012

Playing Dirty

Can Big Oil deliver the election to Mitt Romney?

BY STEVE LEVINE | JUNE 12, 2012

Romney: Year One

What would happen if you took Mitt Romney's foreign-policy promises extremely literally?

BY DANIEL DREZNER | MAY 25, 2012

Two Worlds, One Climate

Forget Kyoto. There’s a much better way to persuade the developing world to fight climate change.

BY PETER PASSELL | MAY 23, 2012

The FP Survey: The Future of NATO

Does the 63-year-old alliance still matter today? We asked politicians, scholars, and other observers from both sides of the Atlantic to weigh in.

MAY 14, 2012

Getting Ready for Life after Castro

Managing the transition to a democratic Cuba: A user’s guide.

BY JAIME SUCHLICKI | MAY 11, 2012

Uh-Oh. Pakistan Can't Pay Its Electric Bills.

How an energy crisis became an economic and political crisis too.

BY COLIN COOKMAN | MAY 10, 2012

The Accidental Peacemaker

China now finds itself on the side of peace in a brewing border conflict between Sudan and South Sudan. But is it really committed to stopping its old buddy, Bashir?

BY JAMES TRAUB | MAY 4, 2012

What Lies Beneath

The mission to secure and seal off Kazakhstan's vast nuclear material -- buried deep underground -- is one of the greatest nonproliferation stories never told.

BY WILLIAM TOBEY | APRIL 30, 2012

Bleak House

Will Europe's crisis get worse before it gets worse?

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | APRIL 23, 2012

The World According to Glencore

"The biggest company you never heard of," as Reuters once put it, Glencore does business in dozens of countries on every continent except Antarctica. Here's a snapshot of this global empire -- and some of its murky local alliances.

BY KEN SILVERSTEIN | MAY/JUNE 2012

A Giant Among Giants

Glencore -- founded by famous fugitive Marc Rich -- has cornered the market on just about everything. Now that it's going public, will its ties to dictators and spies stand up to scrutiny?

BY KEN SILVERSTEIN | MAY/JUNE 2012