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The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit

Published by Sam Flores

The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled. All this is common knowledge, but because it dribbles out in news stories about this specific incident or department, the reports never adequately describe an administration sabotaging the functioning of the federal government and also trashing the global economy, international alliances and relationships, and the national and global environment in ways that will have downstream consequences for decades and perhaps, especially when it comes to climate, centuries. Across the branches of government, the services that are supposed to protect us – nuclear stockpile monitoring, cybersecurity, counter-terrorism – are being undermined, understaffed or trashed. A different kind of protection that consists of public health, vaccination programs, food safety, clean air and water, social services, civil rights and the rule of law is also under attack. The federal government that serves us is being starved while the federal government that serves the Trump agenda and …

AGT’s Terry Crews’ wife Rebecca reveals decade-long battle with Parkinson’s for the first time

AGT’s Terry Crews’ wife Rebecca reveals decade-long battle with Parkinson’s for the first time

Published by Daniella Wilson

Terry Crews and his wife Rebecca King-Crews made an appearance on NBC’s TODAY on Monday, April 6 to share some important personal news. Terry, 57, and Rebecca, 60, have been together for nearly four decades, meeting when the former was a college student. They tied the knot in 1989 and now share five children together. © NBCTerry and Rebecca King-Crews on NBC’s “TODAY” on April 6, discussing her Parkinson’s disease diagnosis On the show, the couple revealed that for the past decade, Rebecca had been dealing with Parkinson’s disease, a diagnosis she’d received back in 2015 and is now opening up about publicly for the very first time. She is now speaking about it after receiving a new FDA-approved surgery that has helped her improve mobility on one side of her body, explaining to host Craig Melvin that she can now write briefly with her right hand for the first time in three years. Recommended videoYou may also likeWATCH: Terry Crews’ wife opens up about repairing their marriage after infidelity “I feel good,” she confirmed. …

Peaky Blinders film star Rebecca Ferguson on whether Kaulo could return

Peaky Blinders film star Rebecca Ferguson on whether Kaulo could return

Published by Daniella Wilson

*Spoiler warning for Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man* Actress Rebecca Ferguson has left us wondering if we will be seeing her Peaky Blinders character, Kaulo Chirklo, again. The film The Immortal Man introduced us to this Romany ‘Queen’ who is the identical twin sister of Duke Shelby’s mother, Zelda, also played by Ferguson in flashbacks. In the present day, Kaulo tracks down Duke’s father Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) and seduces him while apparently channelling her sister’s spirit, and offering to bring him peace by encouraging him to unite with his son. Later, Kaulo speaks with Duke and encourages him to claim Tommy’s ‘throne’ by killing his father and giving him peace. Want to see this content? This page contains content provided by YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as YouTube may use cookies and other technologies. To view this content, choose ‘Accept and continue’ to allow YouTube and its required purposes. Accept and continue Of course, Tommy sniffs out Kaulo’s game but agrees to stay aligned with Duke in the hope …

Rebecca Gayheart steps out with her daughters for first time since Eric Dane’s death

Rebecca Gayheart steps out with her daughters for first time since Eric Dane’s death

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Rebecca Gayheart has made her first public appearance since the death of her husband, Eric Dane. Grey’s Anatomy star Dane — who died February 19 at age 53 less than one year after sharing news of his amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) diagnosis — and Gayheart were married for more than a decade before their 2017 separation. They remained legally married at the time of his death. Just weeks after Dane’s death, Gayheart, 54, and her two daughters shared with the late actor, Billie, 16, and Georgia, 14, attended Tuesday night’s Los Angeles premiere of The Drama. The red carpet photos saw Gayheart in a striped dress with a small pink purse, while her oldest daughter opted for a white lace outfit and her younger …

Rebecca Solnit: ‘The great majority of people want climate action’

Rebecca Solnit: ‘The great majority of people want climate action’

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Rebecca Solnit: ‘‘We have so much power and we do have so many victories” Albert Llop/NurPhoto/Shutterstock Rebecca Solnit is an activist and author of more than 25 books, including the essay collection Men Explain Things to Me. Her new book, The Beginning Comes After the End, argues that we have seen a revolution in rights and ideas over the past 50 years, thanks to a new recognition of the interdependent relationships in nature and humanity. She spoke to New Scientist‘s The World, The Universe and Us podcast about how she came to write it – and where we go from here. Rowan Hooper: I want to start with a quote from your book by scholar Thomas Berry, who spoke in 1978 about how Earth was in trouble because we don’t have a good story. That reminded me of the ecologist David Abram, who said we can’t restore Earth without re-storying it. Why do we need new stories? Rebecca Solnit: I think a lot of the new stories are new to white people and industrial capitalism. …

Jerry O’Connell claims wife Rebecca Romijn and their daughters ‘became physical’ after he criticized Kamala Harris’ campaign

Jerry O’Connell claims wife Rebecca Romijn and their daughters ‘became physical’ after he criticized Kamala Harris’ campaign

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Jerry O’Connell said he was on thin ice with his wife, Rebecca Romijn, and their teenage daughters after he made offhanded remarks about Kamala Harris losing to Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election. The Stand By Me star, 52, was on a recent episode of Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast, when the conversation turned political. He hesitated before deciding to recount his family’s outraged reaction to his criticism of Harris’s campaign. “I said something along the lines of ‘there was no planning. This is what they get. There should have been a primary.’ I said something along those lines, you know, like I was just spit-balling ideas,” he said of Harris’s compressed 107-day campaign. “My wife and daughters, without saying anything, became physical with me. They were filled with rage,” he claimed of his spouse since 2007, actor and model …

Rebecca Ferguson reveals why she studied Cillian Murphy’s sex scenes for Peaky Blinders film

Rebecca Ferguson reveals why she studied Cillian Murphy’s sex scenes for Peaky Blinders film

Published by Daniella Wilson

Rebecca Ferguson has spoken about her approach to her intimate scenes in Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man. The Swedish actress, known for her roles in the Dune and Mission: Impossible series, joins the franchise for the feature film outing, playing the mysterious Kaulo Chirklo, the identical twin sister of Tommy Shelby’s former lover, Zelda, with whom he sired his eldest son, Erasmus “Duke” Shelby (Barry Keoghan). The film sees Tommy (Cillian Murphy) and Kaulo get very up close and personal, but with a rather interesting twist – but we won’t spoil more here… Speaking about working with intimacy coordinators, Ferguson told Michael Hodges in the upcoming issue of Radio Times magazine: “I think it’s wonderful that we can have intimacy coordinators and sometimes they are needed, but for me, it’s very off-putting and it makes me feel very uncomfortable because I have enormous boundaries and I can verbalise them. “So we could sit down and say, what do you need to feel safe? What do I need to feel safe? And then she could step …

Once and Again by Rebecca Serle

Once and Again by Rebecca Serle

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There is a certain kind of novel that refuses to sit comfortably inside a single genre, and Once and Again by Rebecca Serle is precisely that kind of book. It carries the premise of a fairy tale — every woman in the Novak family is born with a silver ticket, a single-use do-over capable of rewinding time — yet wraps that conceit so tightly around the tender, bruised reality of marriage, infertility, ageing parents, and first loves that the magic feels almost secondary. Serle, the New York Times bestselling author of Expiration Dates, In Five Years, and One Italian Summer, has built a career on blurring the boundary between speculative premise and emotional realism. Here, she pushes even further, crafting a novel that reads less like fantasy and more like a meditation on the cost of choice itself. The story follows Lauren Novak, a thirty-seven-year-old accountant whose husband Leo has just landed a cinematography job in New York. With their West Hollywood bungalow headed to Airbnb and summer stretching out ahead, Lauren returns to 31382 …

Rebecca Lucy Taylor aka Self Esteem on her pivot from music to acting: ‘I felt a bit dead’

Rebecca Lucy Taylor aka Self Esteem on her pivot from music to acting: ‘I felt a bit dead’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Rebecca Lucy Taylor – aka the pop star Self Esteem – recently woke up with two cold sores on her face. And that was just the start of it. “I felt very disturbed emotionally on Thursday,” she tells me, sipping a cup of tea. “I’m out of my depth and my comfort zone.” To blame? The unlikeliest theatrical collaboration of the year: Taylor is starring in a West End revival of David Hare’s 1975 play Teeth ’n’ Smiles. He’s a septuagenarian statesman of British theatre, who once wrote a theatrical portrait of Neil Kinnock so savage that the former Labour leader called it “the most uncomfortable three hours of my life”. She’s been deemed the musical oracle for female millennials; her gigs feature defiant choreography and women barking like dogs, and her official merch store sells a scarf emblazoned with the …

The best new popular science books of March 2026 include a new book from Rebecca Solnit

The best new popular science books of March 2026 include a new book from Rebecca Solnit

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Rebecca Solnit has a new book out this month Trent Davis Bailey March, in the northern hemisphere anyway, is about venturing out for some much-needed vitamin D and dodging showers. Forget that – just head for a decent café where you can delve into the marvellous science books we’ve got waiting for you. This month you can explore how animals shaped our world, how to spot liars from their language, what forest trees can tell us – and flowers as revolutionaries. There is some stronger stuff too, if you are in the mood: try AI in the hands of the US military, or a deep cultural look at how our world has changed beyond recognition. Whatever your choice, it’s all guaranteed to enrich the inner you. What would a world look like if women made the rules? In one still run largely by men, it’s an interesting question. According to her publishers, author Megha Mohan was inspired by her great-grandmother’s matrilineal community in South India to scour the world in search of “lessons from societies …