Energy

Megatrends That Weren't

A look at yesterday's Next Big Things, from the Japanese rising sun to Dow 36,000.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | SEPT/OCT 2011

A Thousand Points of Light

When it comes to bringing electricity to the developing world, small is beautiful.

BY CHARLES KENNY | JULY 11, 2011

The Most Notable Revolutionaries of 2011

Right, wrong, or otherwise -- these freedom fighters haven't let the powers-that-be block them, and we're (mostly) better off for it.

BY DAVID J. ROTHKOPF | JULY 1, 2011

Nuked

An FP special roundtable on Japan’s post-tsunami future.

JUNE 29, 2011

Osama's Oil Obsession

Al Qaeda wants to hit Americans where it hurts: in their gas tanks.

BY DAVEED GARTENSTEIN-ROSS | MAY 23, 2011

Big Oil in Turnaround

The world's biggest energy companies have bigger problems than Congress and are adrift in a marketplace they don't understand.

BY EDWARD C. CHOW | MAY 13, 2011

Beyond Petroleum. Or Not.

Can Big Oil figure out the climate-friendly future of energy? Does it actually want to?

BY BRYAN WALSH | MAY 13, 2011

Revenge of the Invisible Hand

How the free market shaped the new geopolitics of the oil industry.

BY BRUCE EVERETT | MAY 13, 2011

The Ghost of John D.

BY STEVE LEVINE | MAY 13, 2011

The Pipeline Paradox

Why is the United States helping Iran sell natural gas?

BY GAL LUFT | APRIL 12, 2011

Nuclear Winner

Environmentalist icon turned nuclear-power booster Stewart Brand tells Foreign Policy why, even after the Fukushima disaster, he thinks nuclear is the energy of the future.

INTERVIEW BY CHARLES HOMANS | MARCH 22, 2011

Nuclear Nation

Japan's unlikely love affair with atomic energy.

BY YUKI TANAKA | MARCH 22, 2011

Atomic Dogs

Fukushima wasn't the only nuclear accident waiting to happen. From Bulgaria to New York, here are five other nuclear power plants to keep an eye on.

BY CHARLES HOMANS | MARCH 17, 2011

Nuclear Power Is Worth the Risk

But there's much more we can do to reduce the odds of a catastrophe.

BY JAMES M. ACTON | MARCH 14, 2011

A Radioactive Situation

Japan's earthquake could shake public trust in the safety of nuclear power.

BY CHARLES D. FERGUSON | MARCH 11, 2011

There Will Be No Uprising in Saudi Arabia

Contrary to what you might have heard, the kingdom is hardly ripe for revolution.

BY NAWAF OBAID | MARCH 10, 2011

Dam Nation

When Beijing counts hydropower as "green energy," it's doing the environment -- and its economy -- no favor.

BY PETER BOSSHARD | MARCH 8, 2011

America Over a Barrel

$100-a-barrel oil is back. And unless Americans make the difficult but necessary adjustments they've put off for years, things could get a whole lot worse.

BY EDWARD C. CHOW | MARCH 8, 2011

Can the Nuclear Talks With Iran Be Saved?

Perhaps not, but here's a proposal worth trying.

BY OLLI HEINONEN | JANUARY 27, 2011

Lukashenko's Nine Lives

On the eve of elections in Belarus, the long-lasting dictator shows that he still has a few tricks up his sleeve to keep his grip on power.

BY LUDMILA KRYTYNSKAIA | DECEMBER 17, 2010

Long Shots

Why throwing money at today's clean-energy technologies could keep us from discovering tomorrow's.

BY VINOD KHOSLA | DECEMBER 10, 2010

The Great Wall of Smog

Hazy images of China's pollution.

DECEMBER 2, 2010

How We Got Trapped by Carbon

Vaclav Smil, Global Thinker No. 49, tells Foreign Policy's Charles Homans how the West got tricked into thinking it could overcome its gasoline addiction.

INTERVIEW BY CHARLES HOMANS | DECEMBER 2010

Delusion Points

Don't fall for the nostalgia -- George W. Bush's foreign policy really was that bad.

BY STEPHEN M. WALT | NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Robert Kaplan's New Global Geography

In Monsoon, our latter-day Kipling makes the case that America can't rule the whole world alone.

BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL | OCTOBER 27, 2010

The Great Battery Race

A 19th-century technology could determine which nation triumphs in the 21st. Steve LeVine reports from the global competition to replace the combustion engine.

BY STEVE LEVINE | NOVEMBER 2010

Gaming the Electric Car Chase

As the four front-runners sprint around the track, some favorites could end up in the dust.

NOVEMBER 2010

You Don't Bring a Praseodymium Knife to a Gunfight

China thinks it can withhold its exports of obscure but important minerals to get its way with its neighbors. Why it picked the wrong weapon.

BY TIM WORSTALL | SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Back from the Dead

Europe's scramble for nuclear energy is making for radioactive politics.

BY AARON WIENER | SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Think Again: Offshore Drilling

President Obama told residents of the gulf states this weekend that he feels their pain. But the best way to help the gulf would be to let his ill-advised drilling moratorium expire early.

BY ERIC R.A.N. SMITH | AUGUST 30, 2010