Tori Whiting of the Heritage Foundation joins Radha in geeking out over trade chaos and the potential for a recession -Bombshell’s very first guest economist. Erin, Radha, and Loren catch up on the impact of over a century of South Korea-Japan tensions and offer a small ray of light in the latest political agreement news out of post-Bashir Sudan before turning to the G7, that meeting of world leaders. And to Loren and Erin’s infinite delight, we devote all of pop culture to the military career of Logan Echolls and the new Disney-Star Wars releases.

Links

Korea-Japan

• Grace Shao, “South Korea is Scrapping a Security Deal with Japan: Here’s Why it Matters,” CNBC, August 23, 2019
• David Brown, “Pentagon Worried Over South Korea-Japan Rift,” Politico, August 23, 2019
• Choe Sang-Hun, “South Korea Signals End to ‘Final’ Deal with Japan Over Wartime Sex Slaves,” New York Times, November 21, 2018
• Isabel Reynolds and Jihye Lee, “South Korea to Withdraw from Japan Intel Pact to US Chagrin,” Bloomberg, August 22, 2019

Climate

• “Amazon Fires: Why the Rainforest Helps Fight Climate Change,” BBC, August 24, 2019
• Naomi Oreskes, Michael Oppenheimer, and Dale Jamieson, “Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change,” Scientific American, August 19, 2019
• Dan Vergano, “We’re Living Through a Climate Emergency Right Now – We Just Aren’t Paying Attention,” Buzz Feed News, August 22, 2019
• Andrew Freedman and Jason Samenow, “The Greenland Ice Sheet Poured 197 Billion Tons of Water into the North Atlantic in July Alone,” Washington Post, August 3, 2019

G7

• “Boris Johnson to Ask Trump Not to Escalate Trade War,” CNN, August 25, 2019
• Andrew Freedman, “Climate Change Could Cost the US up to 10.5 percent of its GDP by 2100, Study Finds,” Washington Post, August 19, 2019
• Amanda Macias, “Trump Hints at a Very Big Trade Deal with Britain Post Brexit,” CNBC, August 25, 2019
• Michael Collins and John Fritze, “Iranian Official Javad Zarif Arrives Unexpectedly at G7 Amid Tensions. Trump’s Response? No Comment,” USA Today, August 25, 2019

Sudan

• Jen Kirby, “Sudan Signs Power-Sharing Deale as its Former Dictator Goes to Trial,” Vox, August 19, 2019
• “New Sudan: Thousands Celebrate as Protesters, Army Sign Deal,” Aljazeera, August 18, 2019
• Jamal Mahjoub, “A Season of Hope in Sudan,” New York Times, August 22, 2019

Pompeo

• Nick Wadhams and Jennifer Jacobs, “Republican Donors Told to Wait as Pompeo Considers Kansas Senate Run,” Bloomberg, August 13, 2019
• Maggie Haberman and Lara Jakes, “Pompeo Fuels Further Talk of Senate Race,” New York Times, August 21, 2019

Pop Culture

• Linda Holmes, Glen Weldon, Margaret Wilson, and Christina Tucker, “Veronica Mars Returns with Melodrama and a New Mystery, NPR, August 9, 2019
• Fandom, Tweets, August 23, 2019
• Jennifer Ouellette, “Ewan McGregor Confirms He Will Return as Obi-Wan for New Star Wars Series,” ARS Technica, August 24, 2019
• James Hibberd, “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Reveals Poster, Epic New Footage at D23 Expo,” Entertainment Weekly, August 24, 2019
• “Who is Rey?” Adam Serwer, December 24, 2015