Petroleum industry and trade

“I am Here Only for Working”

By William T. Vollmann,

But the exercise of labor is the worker’s own life-activity, the manifestation of his own life. . . . He works in order to live. He does not even reckon…

Power in Paris

By Rebecca Solnit,

Can the earth be saved by bureaucrats in long meetings, reciting jargon and acronyms while surrounded by leaning towers of documents? That is what’s supposed to happen in France this…

Thirty Million Gallons Under the Sea

By Antonia Juhasz,

One morning in March of last year, I set out from Gulfport, Mississippi, on a three-week mission aboard the U.S. Navy research vessel Atlantis. The 274-foot ship, painted a crisp…

Promises, Promises

By Mark Hertsgaard,

John Podesta first began advising Barack Obama in the summer of 2008, when the junior senator’s improbable rise from mixed-race son of a single mother to president of the United…

Dirty South

By Ken Silverstein, Samuel James,

One Monday evening this March, I had a remarkably forthright two-hour conversation with Ginger Sawyer, one of the most powerful lobbyists in Louisiana. As we sat across a table at…