The One Spooky Show to Watch This Halloween

There’s one screenshot from the second season of the Spanglish comedy Los Espookys that I can’t stop sending to my friends.

The Espookys—a group of four friends who stage “spooks” straight out of B horror films—have just wrapped up a gig in a graveyard when Úrsula (Cassandra Ciangherotti) stumbles across a curious flier. “Free radic…

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Why Mars Inc.’s Boss Wants to Help Others on Climate Goals

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Achieving growth while cutting emissions in a company’s value chain is an ambitious target. Mars Inc. CEO Poul Weihrauch thinks he has the right strategy and he wants to help other business leaders replicate it.

A little over a year into his role, ann…

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Why ESG Is So Confusing

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A few weeks ago, I wrote a story about the anti-ESG movement in Texas’s foray into insurance. Soon after, I received a very thoughtful response from a declared ESG opponent taking issue with the idea that ESG metrics are relevant for insurers. The one issue: he had used the term …

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WNBA’s Cathy Engelbert Discusses Brittney Griner, Roe v Wade

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Momentous disruptions—and some impressive wins—have marked the tenure of WNBA commissioner of Cathy Engelbert, who In 2019 left her CEO post at Deloitte to take over the league. In 2020, after Engelbert negotiated a collective bargaini…

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The Best Books of 2023 So Far

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The best books of the year so far serve as a great reminder to always question the stories we hear. Where do they come from? And who gets to tell them? When we deconstruct history and look at its pieces in a …

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The Inside Story Behind New Doc The Territory

In the western Brazilian state of Rondônia, deep inside the Amazon, a swath of rainforest spans an area two and a half times the size of Delaware—a rich green oasis surrounded by pale farmland. Fewer than 200 people live here: the Uru-eu-wau-wau Indigenous people, just a fraction of the population of thousands the Brazilian government first made contact with in the 1980s.

The …

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Review- Sofia Coppola’s ‘Priscilla’

Have you ever had an intense experience—fallen madly in love, say—only to look back years later and feel it had happened to a different person, a person who had walked through a dream, and survived it, to get to the self you were destined to become? That’s the feeling Sofia Coppola captures in her quietly extraordinary Priscilla, which is adapted from the story told by Priscilla …

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The Golden Bachelor Sticks to the Script

There was a romantic guitar serenade, a daring “birthday suit” entrance, some boozy bickering, and more than one make-out session in the season premiere of The Golden Bachelor—which is to say, despite the promise of something new with a senior citizen spin-off, it was still business as usual for Bach Nation. Since the show was officially announced this spring aft…

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