2:00PM Water Cooler 6/14/2023 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, this Water Cooler will be truncated, as I must finish up two other posts. Talk amongst yourselves! –lambert UPDATE The first, on Amazonia.…
The Unsung Heroes of the “Children Lost in the Amazon” Story: Amazonia’s Gardeners | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. The story of how four Huitoto children survived for 40 days in Colombia’s Amazon jungle after their small plane crashed on May 1 after leaving…
Debt Deal Behind Them, Lawmakers Plunge Into Bitter Spending Fight
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The colors are mesmerizing and ever-so-gently destabilizing. These pigments signal that you’ve entered a new fictional realm that, like the television studio, is at once immediately recognizable and somehow foreign.…
Our Best Summer Pastas
It’s the season of grilled showstoppers and big, easy desserts, but summer pastas may just be the unsung heroes of seasonal cookouts and busy weeknights. Potentially portable, frequently vegetarian and…
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A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted Jack Teixeira, a Massachusetts Air National Guardsman who posted dozens of secret intelligence reports and other sensitive documents on a social media server,…
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At the first whistle of an incoming shell, the soldiers in a newly liberated but desolate Ukrainian village dived into the weeds on a roadside on Thursday and lay face…
Tornado Kills 3 in Texas and Injures Dozens
A storm system that swept through Texas on Thursday evening killed three people and injured dozens of others, an official said, as the state braced for a weekend of brutal…
He Was a Revolutionary at the Birth of a Nation. Does Anyone Care?
On a rainy night last month, down an alleyway in the Jackson Heights section of Queens, in a restaurant basement, sat about two dozen retirees. There was a onetime federal…