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Gas and nuclear: a lose-lose scenario for Eastern Europe

Several inherent risks of nuclear energy, from the disaster potential, to waste management over hundreds of thousands of years, or uranium mining, were not properly addressed in the report commissioned by the European Commission (Photo: IAEA Imagebank) After a year-long…

Biden taps Thompson for full term as top housing regulator

President Joe Biden will nominate Sandra Thompson, currently the acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, to a full term at the regulator, the White House announced Tuesday. If confirmed, Thompson would be the country’s top housing regulator, with…

The Anger Games of American Politics

Maggie Astor at The New York Times devotes an article to the egregious lies US politicians share with their constituents, not through social media, but through massive email campaigns. They escape notice in the public debate about fake news because…

How Joe Biden Fights Corruption

Yakov Feygin’s professional title as the associate director of the future of capitalism program at the Berggruen Institute reveals with uncanny precision what his mission consists of. The Berggruen Institute seeks to “better understand how a global capitalism can be…

Biden, Warren back uprising against Trump bank regulator

The White House on Friday defended three Democratic board members at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. who moved to wrest control away from the banking agency’s Republican chairman — a maneuver GOP lawmakers blasted as a “coup.” The partisan battle…