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The fixation on Greenland once looked eccentric. Now, it seems like the distillation of his whole foreign policy.

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Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump is launching a new attack in his one-sided war against wind farms. What ...

In Trump v. Illinois, three Republican justices joined all three of the Court’s Democrats in ruling that Trump violated federal law when he deployed a few hundred members of the National Guard to ...

In 2025, the clean energy transition crossed a line that will be hard to uncross. For the first time, renewables overtook coal as the world’s leading source of electricity. In t ...

The US has had a bad track record of building nuclear on time and on budget. But that could change.