A red herring is something that takes attention away from a more important subject. Rig productivity and drilling efficiency distract from the truth that tight…

North Dakota has just become the first state to legalize police use of drones equipped with “less than lethal” weapons, including rubber bullets, Tasers, tear…

Gun owners are are more than twice as likely as non-gun owners to be associated with an active 'social gun culture' where either their family…

For many residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, getting to a supermarket requires a two-hour drive to Rapid City. It’s an expensive…

The fallout of the collapse in oil prices has a lot of side effects apart from the decline of rig counts and oil flows. Oil production in…

Economic growth has bee at zero percent or lower for two or three years in a row in most of the western world. Cooked government…

In addition to the EIA's amusing oil price forecast, which as noted previously leaves quite a bit to be desired considering it was a year ago that…

While the phrase "an apple a day" is a popular saying, a new study suggests that pears as part of a healthy diet could play…

Despite public opposition that has so far blocked the building of theKeystone XL pipeline, the fossil fuels industry has successfully—and quietly—expanded the nation’s domestic oil network by installing…

Did you play a musical instrument when you were growing up? Do you continue to play an instrument today? Neuroscientists continue to find evidence that musical…

Over the past decade, states have slashed workers’ compensation benefits, denying injured workers help when they need it most and shifting the costs of workplace…

Last week’s discussion of externalities—costs of doing business that get dumped onto the economy, the community, or the environment, so that those doing the dumping…