Lisa Hymas is director of the climate and energy program at Media Matters, where she has worked since May 2017. A longtime environmental journalist, she worked previously as senior editor at Grist.
Iranian strikes on Gulf energy sites and renewed threats against American installations are exposing how decades of US military expansion in the Middle East have tied Washington to regional regimes while increasing risks of wider war.
Unusual oil and stock trades worth hundreds of millions of dollars occurred minutes before the president’s social media announcement about Iran peace talks, prompting calls for investigations into possible insider knowledge.