+Politics | September 7, 2011

Poll: Tea Party Out of Step with the Rest of U.S. on Climate

By Bryan Walsh

Republicans will be holding their latest Presidential debate in California tonight, and this one will be more newsworthy than most. It marks the debut of Texas Governor Rick Perry, the laconic latecomer who is currently trouncing the rest of the field. I don’t expect the environment or climate change to be a major topic at the [...]

+Oil | October 20, 2010

Oil Spill: Six Months On, the Stain is Still on the Gulf Coast—and the Rest of Us

By Bryan Walsh

A few weeks after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, triggering the biggest oil spill in U.S. history, I wrote the first cover story for TIME on the accident. We called it “The Meaning of the Mess,” and while I spent a few pages recounting how the explosion had occurred, [...]