Oil

Treacherous Waters

The latest bad publicity for the global cruise industry is just the tip of the iceberg.

BY ROSS A. KLEIN | APRIL 6, 2012

The Zero Man

Obama’s greatest obstacle to re-election isn’t Mitt Romney, or rising gas prices: It’s Ben Bernanke.

BY HELEEN MEES | APRIL 3, 2012

The World in Photos This Week

The Pope dons a sombrero, French police hunt suspected Islamists, and a Tongan king is laid to rest.

MARCH 30, 2012

The Driller in Chief

President Obama's critics say he's been a disaster for the energy industry. But the numbers tell a different story.

BY MICHAEL LEVI | MARCH 1, 2012

Between Iran and a Hard Place

Forced to choose between high gas prices and a nuclear Iran, Barack Obama could very well remake himself into a war president.

BY GAL LUFT | MARCH 1, 2012

Nice Oil Imports You've Got There. Shame if You Lost Them.

Why Americans need to be more grateful to Canada.

BY VACLAV SMIL | FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The Fix Is In

Why the coming election in Iran will be the fakest one yet.

BY JAMSHEED CHOKSY | FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Scotland's Oil Boom

How the North Sea fields are fueling the hopes of Scottish separatists.

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

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