Waxman

Sharon Waxman, founder of the Hollywood and media analysis website TheWrap.com, joins us to discuss the latest in the media world, including the $200 million estimated loss for the Disney sci-fi epic John Carter, Apple’s $100 billion cash reserve, the ongoing conversation around Kony2012, and the fact or fiction of playwright Mike Daisey’s show on […]

Dr. Conrad Murray, the personal physician of Michael Jackson, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the pop star’s death on Monday. Two and a half years after Jackson’s death at age 50, a jury found that Murray acted recklessly when giving Jackson propofol, a surgical  anesthetic Jackson used to sleep.  Sharon Waxman, founder and CEO of  TheWrap.com, […]

Republicans challenge the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.

If a national climate bill is passed, we’ll have to cut our CO2 emissions, and that means burning a lot less coal. The union for the workers who dig up coal isn’t against the bill, but there are some changes it’d like to see made before it’s passed.

The Waxman-Markey climate change bill calls for the United States Government to pay billions of dollars to developing countries to protect their carbon-sequestering forests. The avoided emissions would potentially add 10 percent in emissions reductions to