My column this week dives into oil and energy, drawing heavily on the delightful work of Lisa Margonelli. She’s the author of the 2007 non-fiction best-seller “Oil on the Brain,” which tracks petroleum from deep in the ground to the…

Fallout from the Anheuser-Busch deal with InBev:

A colleague (who shall remain unnamed) suggested in an editorial board meeting Monday that “Budweiser is (crummy) beer.”

This particular colleague does not drink beer. His defense was that “everyone I know who knows…

My column today pulls together and reflects on last week’s three major developments in America’s ongoing effort to understand how the Bush administration came to approve and use abusive interrogation techniques on prisoners — something that violates every principle of…

Earlier this week, I wrote a blog item about the debate over U.S. domestic oil exploration. It includes background information on the issue, including data about estimated oil reserves and U.S. production, importation and consumption.

Some politicians who have opposed expanded…

My Wednesday column contrasted the solicitous treatment the government gives to retired senior officers moonlighting as on-air military analysts with the years of continuing struggle faced by active-duty troops and veterans to get decent care for mental problems, including post-traumatic…

Of course the murder of Nancy Miller, my friend and former Post-Dispatch colleague, has received more coverage than it would have if she hadn’t worked here and been known in our community. But what does that really mean?
That was…

For anyone interested in diving into the torture pool, which was the subject of my oped column of April 9, there’s no shortage of original documents on the subject. Here are links to a few that are mentioned in the column –…