“The Amazon Stays, Bolsonaro Goes”: Protesters in Brazil Demand Action on Rainforest Fires
Smokes rises from forest fires in Brazil’s Amazon basin, on August 27, 2019.Joao Laet/AFP/Getty This story was originally published by National Observer and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last Friday, in the streets outside the government buildings in Brazil’s capital city, I walked with nearly a thousand people in desperate concern over the relentless…
Consumer Spending Is Kind of Meh
The Wall Street Journal doubled down today on the notion that consumer spending is strong: U.S. households ramped up their spending in July, providing reassurance that the economy’s decadelong expansion continued to roll despite slowing factory activity and global growth. Personal-consumption expenditures, a measure of household spending, increased a seasonally adjusted 0.6% in July from…
After Over A Decade, Lindsay Lohan Is Finally Dropping New Music
J. Merritt/Getty In a recent interview on “The Kris Fade Show,” Lindsay Lohan, the teen-queen-turned-Mykonos-businesswoman herself, previewed a snippet of “Xanax,” a new track she’s set to release soon. Everything you’d expect from Lohan is here. It’s as if Ashley O—Netflix’s fake pop star that took over the summer—gave Lohan a reject from her latest…
Michael Flynn and His New Lawyer Are Feuding With Federal Prosecutors
Michael Flynn leaves court on June 24, 2019, in Washington, DC.Alex Wroblewski/Getty Former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn is slowly breaking up with the federal prosecutors he agreed to assist nearly two years ago, risking a stiffer prison sentence in what might be an effort to win a pardon from President Donald Trump.…
Who Needs the Fifth Amendment, Anyway?
Sure, she *looks* innocent, but is she really? Let’s do some science fiction today. Recently both Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk’s have announced that they’re building tech to read your mind. It doesn’t work so great yet, and it’s mainly aimed at controlling prosthetics or allowing you to answer your iPhone with a flick of…
California Loves Its Workers. (And Its CEOs.)
Chief Executive magazine says that California ranks dead last as the worst place to do business in the United States. I’m a little suspicious of any list that ranks California #34 in “living environment,” since that’s precisely the reason so many people put up with our high taxes and regulations, but I suppose they have…