Oil

Keystone Kops

Environmentalists picked the wrong battle in opposing the Keystone XL project.

BY AMY MYERS JAFFE | FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Crude Awakening

In Iraq's turbulent politics, whoever controls the oil production wields the power. And that might soon be ExxonMobil.

BY BEN VAN HEUVELEN | JANUARY 31, 2012

Why Putinomics Isn't Worth Emulating

Don't let the Russian economy fool you: It's still all about oil.

BY PETER PASSELL | JANUARY 27, 2012

The Kingdom of Magical Thinking

Widely assumed to be a fabulously wealthy welfare state, Saudi Arabia is in fact an economic basket case waiting to happen.

BY ROBIN M. MILLS | AUGUST 25, 2011

How the West Was Drilled

From Alberta to the Brazilian Coast, a tour of the new American oil frontier that could eclipse the Middle East.

BY CHARLES HOMANS | AUGUST 17, 2011

Tour the South China Sea

A visual guide to understanding the conflict.

BY PHILIP WALKER | AUGUST 15, 2011

The South China Sea Is the Future of Conflict

The 21st century's defining battleground is going to be on water.

BY ROBERT D. KAPLAN | SEPT/OCT 2011

Greening It Alone

The world is building a low-carbon global economy -- with or without the United States.

BY CHARLES KENNY | AUGUST 1, 2011

The Arab Recession

They may be cheering for democracy, but for most countries affected by the Arab Spring the economic news will have them crying.

BY TY MCCORMICK | JULY 22, 2011

Bashir's Choice

The brutal means that the Sudanese president has used to keep his country together have instead blown it apart in the most chaotic way possible.

BY JAMES TRAUB | JULY 8, 2011

Trouble Down South

For Saudi Arabia, Yemen's implosion is a nightmare.

BY ELLEN KNICKMEYER | JULY 5, 2011

Lift One from the Gipper

Tim Pawlenty has the Reaganite foreign policy talking points down, but do they add up to anything?

BY JAMES TRAUB | JULY 1, 2011

Dark Crystal

Why didn't anyone predict the Arab revolutions?

BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL | JULY/AUGUST 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

Outraged in Riyadh

Is the House of Saud dumping Obama?

BY SIMON HENDERSON | APRIL 14, 2011

Fukushima's Hidden Fallout

Four ripple effects from Japan's disaster. 

APRIL 13, 2011

How Many Investigators Does It Take to Catch a Kleptocrat?

Since 2007, U.S. officials have been investigating the rampant corruption of Equatorial Guinea's dangerously debauched president-in-waiting. They haven't gotten far.

BY KEN SILVERSTEIN | APRIL 7, 2011

Too Big to Fail

But are Nigeria's elections already too fraught to succeed?

BY MAGGIE FICK | APRIL 4, 2011

Libya Is Too Big to Fail

International intervention is the right move -- and not just for humanitarian reasons.

BY JASON PACK | MARCH 18, 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

How Not to Intervene in Libya

Pundits and politicians are promoting all kinds of dangerous ideas for taking down Qaddafi. Here are five rules Obama should consider before plunging in blindly.

BY DIRK VANDEWALLE | MARCH 10, 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

Saudi Arabia's Musk Revolution

The king has returned, bearing gifts. But government mismanagement and squabbling within the House of Saud may mean that the kingdom is in for a rocky transition period.

BY SIMON HENDERSON | MARCH 1, 2011

The Ripple Effect

From Algeria to Iran and the countries in between, a look at how revolution fever is spreading across the Middle East.

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Frenemies Forever

How Washington stopped worrying and learned to love Saudi Arabia, again.

BY STEVE LEVINE | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011