Nicholas Clairmont is a former staff writer at The American Interest, covering Asia, transportation, and U.S. Military issues, and a former writer for Big Think.
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William Whitehurst / Getty D.C.'s Misguided Attempt to Regulate Daycare
Requiring child-care workers to have college degrees will likely widen the capital’s economic disparities.
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Michael Euler / AP The End of Diesel
The highly efficient fuel was supposed to be the future. Is it now doomed?
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AP Volkswagen's Diesel Scandal Was 80 Years in the Making
A conversation with the reporter Jack Ewing, whose new book explores what led to the company's deadly decision to cheat emissions regulations.
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Richard Drew / AP The Markets Aren't Taking Well to Political Instability
After a rash of allegations against the president and his team, the Dow this week had its worst day since September.
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Michael Sohn / AP Will Game of Thrones-Like Alliances Shape the Future of Driverless Cars?
A new partnership between Lyft and Waymo appears designed to contest Uber's dominance.
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Wrestling With an Icon in Malcolm Cowley’s ‘Ernest’
The question of what one would do with a time machine—which is a terribly interesting one among, at the very…
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Susan Walsh / AP What Will Trump’s Executive Order Do to H-1B Visas?
The president ordered a review of the controversial program as part of his "Hire American" agenda, opening the way for reforms that could fix the program, or doom it.
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Kiichiro Sato / AP The Many Ways 'Buy American' Can Harm the Economy
Barring the government from contracting with foreign firms will decrease competition and squander tax dollars.
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Julie Jacobson / AP The Significance of a Police Car That’s Also a Hybrid
Fifteen years ago, partially electric vehicles incited a culture war. Now, they’re normal.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Advertisers Are Ditching Bill O’Reilly Over Harassment Allegations
More than two dozen companies are pulling ads from the most-watched cable-news show amid yet another scandal at Fox News.
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Charlie Riedel / AP Trump’s Taking Credit Where No Credit Is Due
The president says he’s already succeeded in bringing auto-sector jobs back. Has he?
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John Minchillo / AP Anticipating Protests, Harley-Davidson Cancels a Visit From Trump
The motorcycle maker’s reported about-face underlines the public-relations challenges of cooperating with a contentious president.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters What’s Next for the U.S.’s Trade Deals?
And other big questions, now that President Trump has gutted the TPP and is planning to renegotiate NAFTA
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Bebeto Matthews / AP Trump Is Turning American Companies Into Reality-Show Contestants
What happens when the satisfaction of the president becomes an important business consideration?
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Martyn Goddard / Getty Hedge-Fund Managers With Flashy Sports Cars Make Worse Investors
Traders who own minivans, a recent study suggests, are more financially prudent.
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Rebecca Clarke Flying Rescue Missions in the Most Remote Reaches of the U.S.
An interview with Lieutenant Commander Tom Huntley, a helicopter pilot in the U.S. Coast Guard
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If Trump Is a Fascist, Why Can’t He Seize Power?
All I have is a voice To undo the folded lie, The romantic lie in the brain Of…
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'It’s Easy to Imagine a Trumpian Trail of Tears'
One of the strangest things about the Trump phenomenon is that, for something so unprecedented, he’s best understood through the…
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Is Trump an Ur-Fascist?
"@ilduce2016: “It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.” –…
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Is NATO Redundant? We'd Better Hope So
This month, Jeffrey Tayler wrote a piece responding to Donald Trump’s unprecedented shrug over whether the United States would uphold…
