A new book, "The Eskimo and the Oil Man," explores Alaska's -- and America's -- role in the changing Arctic, through the eyes of an Inupiat mayor and an executive in an Alaska oil major.

When Maurice Sendak’s groundbreaking “Where the Wild Things Are,” was published in 1963, some critics and parents grumbled about what they called its dark and nightmarish undertones.

It's not just oil and gas, warns Michael T. Klare in this first-rate wake-up call. Planet Earth is now in danger of running out of just about everything.

Howard Weaver was chief editor of the Anchorage Daily News for the last decade of the great Alaskan newspaper war. Anyone looking for a dispassionate account of post-pipeline Alaska history should look elsewhere.