AMERICAN AUTHORITIES arrested Masphal Kry, an official in Cambodia’s forestry administration, last November when he was heading to an international meeting about trade regulations for endangered species in Panama.
TopDeep-sea mining may soon ease the world’s battery-metal shortage
PUSHED BY THE threat of climate change, rich countries are embarking on a grand electrification project. Britain, France and Norway, among others, plan to ban the sale of new internal-combustion cars. Even where bans are not on the statute books, electric-car sales are growing rapidly.
TopGuns in America: Perhaps make it a bit harder to buy one?
The motives for mass murder vary. The teenager in Buffalo who on May 14th shot and killed ten people, most of them black, was driven by racial paranoia. The 68-year-old who killed one and injured five on May 16th in a Californian church hated Taiwanese people.
TopHawaii’s oil-dependent economy is being battered by Russia’s war
BARELY VISIBLE a mile off the south-western tip of Oahu, an oil tanker floats lazily in the gentle surf. Squinting from shore, an eagle-eyed observer can spot a small yellow metal platform in its shadow, hooked like an intravenous bag to the vessel by a series of tubes.
TopThe Supreme Court is poised to side with a praying coach
AMERICA’S CONSTITUTION promises the “free exercise” of religion; it also prohibits religious “establishment”. Recently the Supreme Court has been strengthening the first guarantee—a right to live one’s faith free from government meddling—while chipping away at the wall separating church from state.
TopOklahoma takes a tussle with Indian tribes to the Supreme Court
WITH AN AIR of efficiency Judge Amy Page moves through the day’s docket. Defendants stand sheepishly before her to face their charges: assault and battery, stalking, larceny, drunk driving.
TopCalifornia wants to lead the world on climate policy
In addition to releasing 1m barrels of oil a day from America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the Interior Department will resume new lease sales for oil and gas drilling on public lands, reneging on Mr Biden’s campaign promise to end the practice.
TopStartups aim to reinvigorate local news in America
IN ITS HEYDAY in the 1950s, the spacious five-storey redbrick building on North Calvert Street h...
TopWhy America keeps delaying student-loan repayments
EMERGENCY MEASURES often outlast the crises that prompt them. So it is with federal student-loan...
TopHotWhat happens if America’s Supreme Court overturns women’s right to abortion
A woman in Missouri who decides to end her pregnancy has a choice, of sorts. She can go to the state’s last remaining abortion clinic, in St Louis, where state law dictates she must be told that “the life of each human being begins at conception” and warned of...
TopKen Paxton’s bid for re-election is a test of Texas Republicans’ values
IN 2013 A little-known state senator passed through the security check at a courthouse in Collin...
TopSelf-service petrol stations hit a roadblock in New Jersey
DRIVE ANYWHERE in New Jersey and you will almost certainly see a bumper sticker or a car magnet bragging that “Jersey girls don’t pump gas”. For 73 years, New Jerseyans have relied on petrol-station attendants to fill their cars and lorries, rather than do it themselves.
TopBlack Americans have overtaken white victims in opioid death rates
THE TYPICAL face of America’s opioid epidemic has long been that of a white man from a post-industrial town in the Appalachian mountains. White victims have accounted for 78% of the more than 500,000 opioid-overdose deaths since the late 1990s. In 2017 counties in Appalachia experienced rates 72% higher than the average for the rest of the country.
TopWhy an agricultural boom does not help rural America
FOR A PICTURE of the evolution of modern agriculture, you could do worse than visit the barn on Philip Volk’s farm, near the city of Rugby in North Dakota. Inside the ageing building is hundreds of thousands of dollars-worth of equipment.
TopAmerica’s childmaking market is a legal and ethical minefield
WHEN THE man who had paid Melissa Cook to bear three embryos, created from his sperm and the egg of an anonymous donor, informed her that he had run out of money and she would have to abort at least one, she refused.
TopAmerica has a shortage of lab monkeys
AMERICAN AUTHORITIES arrested Masphal Kry, an official in Cambodia’s forestry administration, last November when he was heading to an international meeting about trade regulations for endangered species in Panama.
TopDeep-sea mining may soon ease the world’s battery-metal shortage
PUSHED BY THE threat of climate change, rich countries are embarking on a grand electrification project. Britain, France and Norway, among others, plan to ban the sale of new internal-combustion cars. Even where bans are not on the statute books, electric-car sales are growing rapidly.
TopGuns in America: Perhaps make it a bit harder to buy one?
The motives for mass murder vary. The teenager in Buffalo who on May 14th shot and killed ten people, most of them black, was driven by racial paranoia. The 68-year-old who killed one and injured five on May 16th in a Californian church hated Taiwanese people.
TopHawaii’s oil-dependent economy is being battered by Russia’s war
BARELY VISIBLE a mile off the south-western tip of Oahu, an oil tanker floats lazily in the gentle surf. Squinting from shore, an eagle-eyed observer can spot a small yellow metal platform in its shadow, hooked like an intravenous bag to the vessel by a series of tubes.
TopThe Supreme Court is poised to side with a praying coach
AMERICA’S CONSTITUTION promises the “free exercise” of religion; it also prohibits religious “establishment”. Recently the Supreme Court has been strengthening the first guarantee—a right to live one’s faith free from government meddling—while chipping away at the wall separating church from state.
TopOklahoma takes a tussle with Indian tribes to the Supreme Court
WITH AN AIR of efficiency Judge Amy Page moves through the day’s docket. Defendants stand sheepishly before her to face their charges: assault and battery, stalking, larceny, drunk driving.
TopCalifornia wants to lead the world on climate policy
In addition to releasing 1m barrels of oil a day from America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the Interior Department will resume new lease sales for oil and gas drilling on public lands, reneging on Mr Biden’s campaign promise to end the practice.
TopStartups aim to reinvigorate local news in America
IN ITS HEYDAY in the 1950s, the spacious five-storey redbrick building on North Calvert Street h...
TopWhy America keeps delaying student-loan repayments
EMERGENCY MEASURES often outlast the crises that prompt them. So it is with federal student-loan...
TopHotWhat happens if America’s Supreme Court overturns women’s right to abortion
A woman in Missouri who decides to end her pregnancy has a choice, of sorts. She can go to the state’s last remaining abortion clinic, in St Louis, where state law dictates she must be told that “the life of each human being begins at conception” and warned of...
TopKen Paxton’s bid for re-election is a test of Texas Republicans’ values
IN 2013 A little-known state senator passed through the security check at a courthouse in Collin...
TopSelf-service petrol stations hit a roadblock in New Jersey
DRIVE ANYWHERE in New Jersey and you will almost certainly see a bumper sticker or a car magnet bragging that “Jersey girls don’t pump gas”. For 73 years, New Jerseyans have relied on petrol-station attendants to fill their cars and lorries, rather than do it themselves.
TopBlack Americans have overtaken white victims in opioid death rates
THE TYPICAL face of America’s opioid epidemic has long been that of a white man from a post-industrial town in the Appalachian mountains. White victims have accounted for 78% of the more than 500,000 opioid-overdose deaths since the late 1990s. In 2017 counties in Appalachia experienced rates 72% higher than the average for the rest of the country.
TopWhy an agricultural boom does not help rural America
FOR A PICTURE of the evolution of modern agriculture, you could do worse than visit the barn on Philip Volk’s farm, near the city of Rugby in North Dakota. Inside the ageing building is hundreds of thousands of dollars-worth of equipment.
TopAmerica’s childmaking market is a legal and ethical minefield
WHEN THE man who had paid Melissa Cook to bear three embryos, created from his sperm and the egg of an anonymous donor, informed her that he had run out of money and she would have to abort at least one, she refused.