How Texas' Drive for Energy Independence Set It Up for Disaster
Monday, February 22, 2021 | |
| By Mark Mazzetti and Luke Broadwater As violence grew out of control on Jan. 6, the head of the Capitol Police made an urgent request for the National Guard. It took nearly two hours to be approved. | | | By Clifford Krauss, Manny Fernandez, Ivan Penn and Rick Rojas Texas has refused to join interstate electrical grids and railed against energy regulation. Now it's having to answer to millions of residents who were left without power in last week's snowstorm. | | | By Eric Lipton The Treasury Department slapped sanctions on the Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler in 2017 for corruption in Africa. In Donald Trump's final days in office, they were rolled back with no explanation. | | |
| World By Catherine Porter The fear of public shaming is becoming so prevalent in some Canadian provinces that doctors worry it is driving virus cases underground. | | | Opinion By Naomi Klein Small government is no match for a crisis born of the state's twin addictions to market fixes and fossil fuels. | | |
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