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I spoke to Berta Cáceres the day she was murdered. I never imagined that later this year I would be in a demonstration along with almost a thousand women in Honduras asking for justice for her murder. That day we had been talking about a workshop we were doing together on collective healing and power. The […]

Kaia Gerber may only be 15 years old, but the teenage daughter of Cindy Crawford has already accomplished more than we have this week. On Monday, Hudson Jeans introduced the burgeoning star as the new face of its Fall 2017 campaign. In the lead shot photographed by Patrick Demarchelier, of course Gerber looks like a pro. […]

In 1946, George Orwell pondered the fragility of the capitalist order. Reviewing the work of the influential theorist James Burnham, Orwell presaged several concepts that would later form the groundwork for his best-known novel, 1984. “Not only is the best of capitalism behind us, but the worst of it may lie just ahead.” In his book The […]

Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer’s friendship is the stuff of Hollywood dreams, obvs. Groundbreaking comedian meets quirky A-lister with a need to speak her mind; they quickly form an indomitable bond, go jet skiing together, and exchange tons of inside jokes about Bradley Cooper (probably). Who wouldn’t watch that movie? Anyway, it seems that J.Law […]

Mariah Carey, the *most* extra human on this planet, went for a dip in Israel’s Dead Sea recently. Note: The Dead Sea is a salt lake, in fact, it’s one of the world’s saltiest bodies of water—almost as salty as Mariah when you ask her about J.Lo (jk, not that salty).   Not only did Carey […]

At an April, 2017 Symposium on Peace in Nashville, TN, Martha Hennessy spoke about central tenets of Maryhouse, a home of hospitality in New York City, where Martha often lives and works. Every day, the community there tries to abide by the counsels of Dorothy Day, Martha’s grandmother, who co-founded houses of hospitality and a […]

When you imagine the daily life of Kylie Jenner—something the social media star has dedicated a reality series to unveiling—what do you see? A string of lingerie-clad Instagram photo shoots, perhaps? Hours of hair and makeup? Lunch with momager Kris? That’s to be expected, but when it comes to the real Kylie, the woman behind […]

Can you imagine Leonardo DiCaprio in Hocus Pocus? Well, it might have been. The actor auditioned for the beloved 1993 movie, and the film’s director, Kenny Ortega, absolutely loved him. Too bad he was also up for two career-making movies, including What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, which earned him an Oscar nomination.  The casting directors warned Ortega that […]

To address the major and growing global threat that stems from rampant overuse and misuse of antibiotics in agriculture, the World Health Organization (WHO) this week issued its first-ever formal guidelines instructing farmers to stop using so many antimicrobials in healthy livestock. “As important as these guidelines are, they are just that—guidelines. To help curb […]

When the Aztecs founded Tenochtitlán in 1325, they built it on a large island on Lake Texcoco. Its eventual 200,000-plus inhabitants relied on canals, levees, dikes, floating gardens, aqueducts and bridges for defense, transportation, flood control, drinking water and food. After the Spaniards conquered the city in 1521, they drained the lake and built Mexico […]