Marcus J. Moore, author of 2020’s The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America, initially assumed it was too late to follow it with a book about one of his favorite hip-hop groups of all time, De La Soul. “My first thought was, ‘Oh, well, clearly …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. We’ve seen and demo’d a lot of compelling problem-solving gadgets this week (and more than one obligatory, cutesy robot), but it was all for one and “AI” for …

Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, received millions of dollars in exchange for consulting, speeches, and paid op-eds, according to financial disclosure documents. The payments, first reported by Business Insider, include $186,000 from op-eds and speeches alone. Zeldin also disclosed $45,475 in casino …

Miley Cyrus, whose home in Malibu burned down in a wildfire in 2018, wrote that her “soul aches” for those impacted by the blazes currently sprawling the Los Angeles area. On Instagram Cyrus re-posted an image of the charred remains of her Malibu house, which burned down in the Woolsey …

Sen. Adam Schiff is asking for an independent commission to look into the response to the devastating wildfires destroying large areas of Los Angeles. “For now, let’s focus on putting out these fires, saving lives, saving property, and then, let’s do the full analysis of what went wrong,” the California …

Americans who are sick and dying should mostly blame themselves for their health condition. That’s what Sen. Roger Marshall said as Republicans are poised to cut health care access and increase costs for millions of Americans. “Look, about 70 percent of your health outcomes are determined by you,” Marshall said …

Margaret Klein Salamon, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of Climate Emergency Fund, which raises funds for and makes grants to non violent climate activists. She is the Author of Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth. Who is to blame for the Los Angeles fires? For …

Vice president-elect J.D. Vance drew a line delineating which Jan. 6 criminals and defendants will be considered for a pardon by the incoming Trump administration. “I think it’s very simple. If you protested peacefully on Jan. 6, and you’ve had Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice treat you like a gang …

When Max Baumgarten and Penelope Gazin first learned the catastrophic Eaton fire had gutted their 1940s adobe brick home on the edge of the San Gabriel mountains in Altadena, California, they couldn’t fully absorb it. A neighbor sent them a video of their ravaged cul-de-sac, but they watched it in …

Seated behind his organ at Stax Records’ recording studio in Memphis in the Sixties, Booker T. Jones was a first-hand witness to musical history. As part of Booker T. and the MG’s, Stax’s house band, Jones played on soul landmarks by Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Carla Thomas and especially Sam …