Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton Get Cozy During Romantic Beach Vacation
While most of America is bundling up, Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton have been enjoying a romantic beach escape in sunny Mexico. Stefani posted two Instagram stories on Thursday showing off the couple’s personal piece of paradise in what fans have determined is likely Riviera Maya. (Shelton is currently performing at Luke Bryan’s Crash My Playa, a four-day concert…
'It Is Time to Rebel': Listen to The 1975's New Track Featuring Speech by Climate Leader Greta Thunberg
British pop rock band The 1975 released the first track of their forthcoming album Wednesday, which features Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg delivering an instrumental-backed speech about the global climate emergency. “Music has the power to break through barriers, and right now we really need to break through some barriers if we are to…
Climate Crisis Be Damned, 'Shale Revolution' Poised to Make US Net Exporter of Oil in Three Years
The United States is pumping out so much oil as a result of the so-called “shale revolution” that it’s set to become a net oil exporter in 2021. That’s according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), which announced the projection Monday in its five-year forecast. “U.S. production growth has exceeded expectations,” the analysis states. Calling…
Ahead of Week Dedicated to 'Unplugging,' WHO Urges Strict Limits on Screen Time for Young Children
The World Health Organization on Wednesday released guidelines on screen time for young children, recommending no “sedentary screen time” for one-year-olds and curbed access for older kids. For the guidelines, the Washington Post reported, the “WHO drew on emerging—but as yet unsettled—science about the risks screens pose to the development of young minds at a…
Global Climate Movement: Darkest Before the Dawn
Wildfires burning in the Amazon and Siberia, unrelenting heat waves, 100-year floods happening yearly are signs of our times—the worst of times. A global climate change movement is emerging as we face the real threats to life and to global civilization posed by accelerating climate change. This is a matter of survival, not a blinkered…
Regenerative Agriculture Is Key for a Sustainable Climate and Food System
From where I stand inside the South Dakota cornfield I was visiting with entomologist and former USDA scientist Jonathan Lundgren, all the human-inflicted traumas to Earth seem far away. It isn’t just that the corn is as high as an elephant’s eye—are people singing that song again?—but that the field burgeons and buzzes and chirps…
This Olsen Twin Reunited with a Full House Co-Star and We’re So, So Happy
Saget, of course, famously portrayed her father Danny Tanner on Full House, so you get where we’re going with this. Olsen posed with Adam Duritz, John Oliver, and George Lopez. And while that’s great, it’s the fact that she stands next to Saget that really does warm our hearts. Ashley, Mary-Kate, if you’re reading this,…
'This Is Incredible,' Says Corbyn, as Voter Registration Surges Amid Boris Johnson's Chaotic Lurch Towards UK General Election
Labour Party politicians and pro-democracy groups celebrated Wednesday as more than 100,000 people reportedly registered to vote in a 48-hour period this week amid mounting chaos in the U.K. government in anticipation of a possible general election in October. On Monday, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced harsh criticism within his own party, about 52,000 people registered, followed…
This Video of Beyoncé and Jay-Z Doing the Electric Slide Is Exactly What 2017 Was Missing
On Thursday a video of American royalty Beyoncé and Jay-Z (and Queen Mother Mama Tina) surfaced, and it brought us an unfathomable amount of joy. In said video, which Tina shared on Instagram, the trio, joined by other friends and family members, do the electric slide en masse. Queen Bey, clad in an oversize navy…
What House Republicans Can Learn from the Bipartisan Effort to Impeach Nixon
The Nixon impeachment inquiry had dragged on for more than six months when a group of mostly moderate lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee—four Republicans and three Southern Democrats—began meeting in secret, in July of 1974, at the office of Tom Railsback, a popular Illinois Republican who was a leader in the Party’s reform movement.…