It would be a severe understatement to call LA fashion label No Sesso a work of art. Especially when you have been witness to the hours of intricate, exacting labor that goes into the construction of each garment. On any given day, you will find the room where No Sesso founder and designer Pierre Davis …
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The Stanley Cup Playoffs are a stressful time. For players and fans, so much is on the line. Hockey players have dreamt of hoisting Lord Stanley’s Cup above their heads in victory since childhood, while fans hope upon hope that they’ll get to see their team skate the most coveted trophy in sports around the ice …
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President Barack Obama arrives at United Nations HQ to speak at the Sustainable Development Summit, September 2015.Andrew Harnik/Press Association. All rights reserved.Next week, world leaders will take part in not one but two back-to-back summits on migrants and refugees in New York – one hosted by the United Nations and another by President Barack Obama. …
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On Tuesday, the United States finally came together to agree on one thing: The new Pepsi ad is total garbage. As GOOD reported yesterday, the 2-minute spot featured every millennial stereotype imaginable, including protest signs, a member of the Kardashian family, a bunch of starving artists, and some super friendly cops. The ad revolved around Kendall …
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The openMovements series invites leading social scientists to share their research results and perspectives on contemporary social struggles. The openMovements series invites leading social scientists to share their research results and perspectives on contemporary social struggles. We are at the end of a cycle that started in the second XIXth century. During this cycle, including …
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I’m no stranger to cutting corners, but in my first few years out of college, all of the corners I cut were those that wound up costing me more in the proverbial long run. I balked at spending even $40 for two weeks of groceries, but $5 for a bagel on Monday, $3 for pizza …
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More the 70 countries participated in the Middle east peace conference in Paris, France. Picture by Ania Freindorf Zuma Press/PA Images. All rights reserved. If the international community, led by the U.S., is serious about preserving the two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the upcoming French-hosted international peace conference is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reframe …
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The day after Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, hundreds of thousands of us assembled in downtown Los Angeles to participate in the Women’s March. We were a satellite march, one of many offshoots taking place in tandem with the main show in Washington, D.C. Still, so many people arrived that morning that the march never actually …
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Nicola Sturgeon after the SNP won its third victory in Scottish Parliament elections, 2016. Andrew Milligan / Press Association. All rights reserved. In the immediate aftermath of last week’s elections to the Scottish Parliament, some London commentators had strong but contrasting opinions on what the results mean for the chances of a second independence referendum …
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Nuclear test. Wikimedia/National Nuclear Security Administration. Public Domain. When Theresa May presented to parliament the case for renewing the state's nuclear forces in July 2016, she was asked directly by a Scottish MP whether she would be prepared to order a nuclear attack. The usual response to this question over the years has been to …
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