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Tracee Ellis Ross is the latest star in Hollywood to speak up about sexual harassment, but not as an accuser or a victim. Instead, she wants to set the record straight on what is and is not considered sexual misconduct. In a segment for Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the 45-year-old actress explains that it isn’t “a…

Even in corporate media, you will occasionally see references to the United States as an “oligarchy.” That is the judgment of former President Jimmy Carter, of peer-reviewed academic studies, and even opinion pieces in our most prestigious media (e.g., Washington Post, 4/8/14; New Yorker, 4/18/14). Indeed, Paul Krugman has been saying it in the New…

We’ve rounded up every time Kutcher had the sweetest things to say about Kunis and their little clan. 1. “You think you know how much you can love another person, and then you have a child and realize you didn’t know. It’s infinitely rewarding.” –on The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2. “Staying home the first couple…

Click:metal cnc machining As the human-caused climate crisis drives up ocean temperatures at a rate that has scientists worried, a study published Thursday in the journal Current Biology reveals that warming waters are an even bigger threat to coral reefs than experts previously realized. “Climate scientists talk about ‘unknown unknowns’—impacts that we haven’t anticipated from…

The U.S. and other nuclear powers should rapidly stop nuclear proliferation, researchers at Rutgers University said Wednesday as they released a study showing that a nuclear war between India and Pakistan could kill 125 million people instantly before causing global mass starvation. “When nuclear weapons come into play, what happens in South Asia won’t stay in…

Diane Keaton is still supporting her frequent collaborator Woody Allen. The actress took to her Twitter to send a message of support to the actor and director, who often used Keaton as his muse through their decades of working together, including most famously on Annie Hall. “Woody Allen is my friend and I continue to believe…

In a move that was immediately denounced as “cruel” and counterproductive, the Trump State Department on Saturday confirmed that it is cutting off hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid to Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. “Cutting foreign aid to Central America is the absolute last thing the Trump administration should do right now,”…

A top United Nations official on human rights said Tuesday that the recent escalation in attacks on reproductive rights in the U.S. must be categorized in the same way as other many attacks on basic rights—as part of an “extremist hate” campaign. “We have not called it out in the same way we have other…

Recently, the High Level Panel of Experts of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released its much-anticipated report on agroecology. The report signals the continuing shift in emphasis in the UN agency’s approach to agricultural development. As outgoing FAO Director General Jose Graziano da Silva has indicated, “We need to promote a transformative change…

President Trump will undergo a routine physical examination in early 2018 and the records will be released to the public, the White House said Thursday. In response to a question about Trump appearing to slur a few words at the end of his speech on recognizing Jerusalem, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump…