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Marketing images for ThirdLove feature models of many shapes and races. | Sarah Lawrence for Vox How a woke brand is made. Convincing 100 women to show up at a warehouse and take photos of their chests is no easy feat. Convincing them through a Craigslist ad is nearly impossible. But that’s what lingerie companyContinue reading “A pivot from tech to empowerment at bra startup ThirdLove”

President Donald Trump talks to reporters before boarding Marine One and departing the White House November 08, 2019 in Washington, DC. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images What happened over the weekend will impact this week’s impeachment hearings. This past weekend served as a fitting cap to a dramatic week of public impeachment hearings — and setContinue reading “The weekend in startling impeachment news, explained”

(Shutterstock) | Shutterstock Trump wants to make health care prices more transparent. How much good will it do? The Trump administration has grand plans to make health care prices more transparent, hoping a little bit of sunlight will help disinfect the high costs of US health care. In new regulations, the administration is requiring hospitalsContinue reading “The best-case and worst-case scenarios for Trump’s health care price transparency rule”

Strange Negotiations follows musician David Bazan on a solo tour — and during the 2016 election. | Brandon Vedder/Aspiration Entertainment The provocative Pedro the Lion frontman is the subject of the new documentary Strange Negotiations. David Bazan’s straightforward and bluntly honest brand of indie rock won him secular and Christian accolades alike starting in theContinue reading “David Bazan talks about his music and watching Christianity be “co-opted by authoritarianism””

Adam Tow Leaders at Facebook, Verizon Media, Condé Nast, and more join Recode’s Peter Kafka in Los Angeles. This year, Recode’s annual Code Media conference is in Hollywood — where it’s all happening. Recode’s Senior Media Correspondent Peter Kafka hosts the tech and media conference each year. This year we will examine big-picture industry trendsContinue reading “Code Media 2019: News & updates”

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., leaves the Senate floor after a vote in the Capitol on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. | Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call The senator was once dubbed “the most exciting figure in politics” for libertarians. Now he’s one of Trump’s biggest allies. Why? In 2014, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul told an audience at anContinue reading “Did Rand Paul betray libertarians?”

An anti-government protester extinguishes a fire at Hong Kong Polytechnic University on November 18, 2019. | Laurel Chor/Getty Images Police trapped demonstrators inside the campus in a standoff that lasted hours. The campus of a Hong Kong university transformed into an apocalyptic scene on Monday as riot police armed with tear gas and rubber bulletsContinue reading “A Hong Kong university becomes a battleground in the latest round of protests”

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) questions Andrew Wheeler during his confirmation hearing to lead the Environmental Protection Agency on January 16, 2019. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Sens. Whitehouse, Heinrich, and Schatz discuss how to hold the Chamber of Commerce accountable. On Tuesday, November 19, the Chamber of Commerce will meet to discuss its climate policy approach.Continue reading “These senators are going after the biggest climate villains in Washington”

Fires in the Amazon rainforest this year have contributed to the highest rate of deforestation in more than a decade, according to new measurements. | Johannes Myburgh/AFP/Getty Images New satellite measurements show an alarming spike in deforestation this year. Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has surged to its highest rate in more than a decade,Continue reading “Brazil’s Amazon rainforest destruction is at its highest rate in more than a decade”

Fires in the Amazon rainforest this year have contributed to the highest rate of deforestation in more than a decade, according to new measurements. | Johannes Myburgh/AFP/Getty Images New satellite measurements show an alarming spike in deforestation this year. Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has surged to its highest rate in more than a decade,Continue reading “Amazon rainforest destruction is at its highest rate in more than a decade”