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The American gray wolf represents a rare environmental miracle. After decades of harassment, hunting, trapping, and poisoning to near-extirpation in the Lower 48, the population was saved in the last 60 years through a combination of policy and active repopulation campaigns. But since the Trump administration delisted the animal under the Endangered Species Act last October, some states have declared open season on Canis lupus.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been one of the most consequential world figures of the past two decades, and yet it wasn’t until last year that an English-language writer delivered a definitive account of his rise. Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West, by Reuters correspondent Catherine Belton, detailed Putin’s transformation from democratic reformer to dictatorial revanchist, painting him and his cronies as a sordid cabal motivated by greed and grievance alike. Читать дальше...

In 1950, the historian Henry Steele Commager wrote about the Tennessee Valley Authority, the New Deal agency that brought electricity and economic development to seven states in the rural South. It was, he said, no less than “the greatest peacetime achievement of twentieth-century America,” a triumphant alliance of “science and politics.” Speaking with an absolute confidence that is hard to imagine in the present day, Commager asserted that the history of the TVA demonstrated beyond a doubt that... Читать дальше...

Sarah Palin was asked over the weekend if she might run for Senate in 2022 against Lisa Murkowski, who has recently committed the thought crime of taking her job seriously. Predictably, Palin played it on the coy and emotionally manipulative side, saying: “If God wants me to do it, I will.”

Even with governments dangerously behind schedule on emissions reductions, oil producers are beginning to feel the heat. In recent weeks, the United States, China, the European Union, and a handful of international organizations have unveiled plans for alternative energy investments, carbon pricing, and environmental regulations. Their proposals are neither fast enough nor bold enough. But already they have triggered infighting among OPEC nations and a fire sale of oil and gas assets.