Taming Volatile Oil Markets Requires a New Kind of Government Intervention Oil is a volatile commodity. Even under ideal conditions, the price of crude changes by the minute, driven by any number of causes, such as shifts in national oil inventories and military coups in oil-producing states. Still, since the …

The Blind Spots of Power For two decades, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been both admired and feared as a shrewd strategist, a strongman who has cemented his rule at home and doggedly advanced Russian interests abroad. Whether suppressing domestic opposition or annexing Crimea, Putin has appeared as an uncompromising …

Tehran recently hosted a regional summit on addressing the dust storms that have ravaged the area over the past two years. Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi accused Western powers of playing into the destruction of environment by tapping into the Middle East’s natural resources. Raisi was addressing a regional summit in …