It's a pretty funny time to pick a petro state. Energy prices have had an incredible boom of late. As one antler said to me in guiana, the oil revenues are going to come fast. And they're not going to come for long. So it's not going to take very long for us to find out whether this is a case of resource curse or a massof oilboom.
Voters in the Philippines choose a new president on Monday. The
likely winner is a scion of one of the country’s most controversial families. Exxon struck oil off the coast of
Guyana a few years back. How will becoming a petrostate change this small country on South America’s northern coast? And
koalas are adorable but imperilled—by development, stray dogs and now, a quickly spreading bacterial infection.