2:00PM Water Cooler Special: Reader Report from the Field on Biden in New Hampshire (and It’s Ugly. Very Ugly. Come ON, Man)
Alert reader Petal attended a Biden rally and took careful notes from the second row.
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2:00PM Water Cooler 8/26/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Sanders, Trump, Walsh, Warren, DNC hits up the expats, durable goods, national activity index, manufacturing, Shopify, Apple, Dairy Queen, “fly by wire,” the Amazon fires, reforestation in Detroit and Nepal, Monsanto, Chevron, “American Factory,” unions and Tinder, utilitarianism, George R. R. Martin
Read more...Waste Watch: Big Fashion Embraces Sustainability? Ha!
Thirty-two fashion companies present the Fashion Pact to G7; the feeble pledges raise the question: why bother?
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Wolf Richter: World Trade Skids for First Time Since Financial Crisis
Exports by China, Japan, and Eurozone under pressure — in part because of globally weak demand for new vehicles, which transcends the trade war.
Read more...Immigration, Fear, and Public Spending on Security: The Italian Example
How fear of immigration drives perceptions of safety risks.
Read more...Links 8/25/19
The Amazon is Burning at a Record Rate
This Real News Network interview with Amazon Watch’s Christian Poirier discusses Bolsonaro’s policies that prioritize agribusiness over people – especially indigenous people.
Read more...Links 8/24/19
Italy’s Right-Wing Government Collapses – Will the Next One Be Better?
The odd marriage of Lega Nord and Five Star held up longer than expected, but Italy is about to get a new government. How might that work out?
Read more...Removing Mini-Shampoos from Hotel Rooms Won’t Save the Environment
Why most corporate pro-environment measures are mere gestures.
Read more...Cheerleading for Austerity
Readying austerity talk just in time to condition voters for 2020.
Read more...It’s Raining Plastic, From the Pyrenees to the Rockies to the Arctic
On the extent of plastic exposure in the form of microplastics.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/22/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Gabbard, Harris, Inslee, Sanders, Trump, Warren, Susan Sarandon (!), election reform, jobless claims, leading indicators, manufacturing, Tesla v. Walmart, fake meat, recession, Milky Way, PFAS, Nat Turner, UAW corruption, Luca Pacioli
Read more...Hong Kong’s Economy Is Still Important to the Mainland, at Least Financially
Correcting misinformation about Hong Kong’s status sometimes bandied about by critics of its protestors.
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