Latest Leak Shows How TTIP Puts US-EU Clean Energy Goals in 'Mortal Danger'

A new leak provides further confirmation that the pro-corporate TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the U.S. and European Union would result in “a giant leap backward in our fight to keep fossil fuels in the ground.” As the 14th round of TTIP negotiations started in Brussels on Monday, the Guardian reported that the…

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SNL‘s Aidy Bryant Secretly Got Engaged Six Months Ago

Aidy Bryant sure can keep a secret! During a Thursday appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, the Saturday Night Live star revealed that she and Conner O’Malley have been engaged for six months. Bryant, 29, told the adorable engagement story, noting that she returned home from work at SNL one night in October to…

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YOLO Economics: Growth on a Burning Planet

The economy, we have been taught, is a cat with considerably more than nine lives. The bottom might drop out of the stock market, but it will rebound — again and again. The Chinese were on top of the world, economically, for a thousand years or more, but then the colonial powers cut the country…

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This Is the Average Age of the World’s Most Beautiful Women

People‘s annual list of the World’s Most Beautiful Women has been published consistently for almost three decades now, garnering attention and acclaim each time. Julia Roberts was deemed 2017’s Most Beautiful Woman, with Reese Witherspoon, Selena Gomez, and Viola Davis, and others making the final list. After years of being published though, a research journal…

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Zappos announces eco-conscious Goods for Good platform

E-commerce company Zappos is introducing a sustainability platform to its site to help customers more easily discover products made with an eco-conscious mission. The footwear and clothing retailer is introducing a page called Goods for Good to its site to highlight brands with sustainable missions. “We know for our customers every purchase matters and they’re…

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Alexander Skarsgard on Why He May Never Get Another Job After Big Little Lies

WARNING: This post contains spoilers from the Big Little Lies season finale. Read at your own risk! As you probably know by now, Alexander Skarsgård’s Perry Wright died at the end of the seventh episode of Big Little Lies. Some might call it murder, some might prefer the ladies’ explanation that he fell to his death….

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