In his Prison Notebooks, the Italian revolutionary Antonio Gramsci wrote: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”
Today, it is the world economy, to be precise, that finds itself once again in the midst of an interregnum. The post-war model of economic growth that produced the golden age of capitalism is long gone, but a new economic system has yet to be born. Read More...
Bethenny Frankel has no time for the haters. On Monday, August 31, the 49-year-old snapped an up-close photo of her real, unfiltered skin after critics accused her of having fillers, botox and anti-aging to touch up her appearance.
The social media drama began when Skinnygirl founder posted an unfiltered selfie wearing her wavy brown hair down and minimal makeup. She wears a denim shirt and a gold chain necklace in the pretty snap. Read More...
Doing what’s best for the kids. Brad Pitt voluntarily took a drug test during the investigation into allegations of child abuse made against him, an insider tells Us Weekly.
“The DCFS [Department of Community & Family Services] wouldn’t compel someone to provide the urine sample for the drug test; it would be voluntary,” a legal source tells Us.
TMZ reported on Thursday, September 28, that Pitt, 52, had offered to take a drug test shortly after the jet plane incident to prove that he had nothing to hide. Read More...