China on Tuesday renewed its pledge never to be the first to use nuclear weapons in a military conflict, and senior military leaders vowed greater ope...
Ross Tuttle | Posted 05.25.2011
McCain's cavalier attitude toward nuclear safety, where he holds in contempt those who raise questions, is nothing new.
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 05.25.2011
During a rally in Northern Iowa University this morning, John McCain made a strange remark that only serves to cement the notion that he does not resp...
Lord Robin Corbett | Posted 05.25.2011
The case of Iran and its intransigent mullahs is rarely the focus of McCain and Obama, and voters are being denied the genuine debate and discussion they deserve.
Bloomberg | Posted 05.25.2011
John McCain's plan to revive the U.S. nuclear power industry with 45 new reactors may cost $315 billion, with taxpayers bearing much of the financial ...
Eliza Margarita Bates and Cara Zwerling | Posted 05.25.2011
Over the course of this week, OffTheBus is running a primer on some of the most important foreign policy issues the next president will face. Today, the primer looks at where Obama and McCain stand on energy and environmental policy and the AIDS crisis.
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 05.25.2011
Oil prices tripled since 2003. Sunshine for the economies of metro areas on the Gulf of Mexico, but a cloud over the metros on the Great Lakes.
AP | GLEN JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011
RAPID CITY, S.D. — John McCain conceded in a new television commercial on Tuesday that "we're worse off than we were four years ago," and said h...
Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011
More evidence of the hard-wired sloppiness that has plagued Yucca from the start popped up a week after DOE filed for its NRC permit. So how does this play out politically?
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.25.2011
McCain's hypocrisy lies in threatening "terrorist" countries with military strikes for pursuing the same nuclear programs that the Republican nominee to put in place.
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 05.25.2011
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Sen. John McCain called Wednesday for the construction of 45 new nuclear reactors by 2030 and pledged $2 billion a year in fe...
Susan Grant | Posted 05.25.2011
McCain's energy policy emphasizes nuclear power and the uranium market is booming as a result. But in the south west, people are still cleaning their land of the radioactive waste from long-shut mines.
Susan Grant | Posted 05.25.2011
Democrats laugh and point to his ties to big oil. Conservative voters are turned off by what they see as an exercise in hippie mysticism. Fact is, though, McCain is stumping an environmental plan.
McClatchy Newspapers | Tim Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011