'A Revolution in the Making': Cory Booker Wants to Fix Our Food System and Reclaim Black Farmers' Heritage

Sen. Cory Booker.Photo: Paras Griffin/Getty Images It’s a lofty goal, he knows. Speaking with PEOPLE, Booker says he’s taking a piecemeal approach, aware that change won’t come overnight — or even in a year or two. In short, he’s in it for the long haul. “Americans don’t realize: The hope of farming and really our food system … is so broken right now. But the solution to it lies within our decisions we make about farming,” says Booker, who wasappointed to the Senate Agriculture Committeein early February.

'A Shoulder and a Glass of Wine': Inside Meghan Markle's Close Friendships

Meghan Marklehas gained a number of new titles over the past year – wife, duchess, soon-to-be mother – but she also remains go-to ally for those who know her best.Five members of the Duchess of Sussex’s inner circlespoke to PEOPLEin this week’s issue about the woman they call their friend – and how she has not changed even after she married a man whose grandmother isQueen Elizabeth.“From the outside, people want to paint a Cinderella story, but Meg had made her life quite amazing before this,” Meghan’s close confidante says.

'A Spiritual Rape': Female Survivors Say Sex Abuse by Nuns Has Been Overlooked by Public

“It’s a spiritual rape, it really is,”survivor Anne Gleeson tells HuffPost in an exclusive video interview. “It steals your faith. I envy people who have faith.” (A 4-minute clip of the interview is shown above.) Another survivor, Patricia Cahill, tells the outlet, “The boys thought they were the only ones for a hundred years. The girls [who were abused] thinkthey’rethe only ones. They don’t have any other survivors to see.”

'A Star Is Born' 's Sam Elliott on His First Oscar Nomination at 74: It's 'About F-----g Time'

Sam Elliott isn’t hiding how happy he is about his long-awaited Oscar nomination.The 74-year-old actor was honored with a Best Supporting Actor nomination for the 2019 Academy Awards this week forA Star Is Born— his first ever in his 50-year career. And his reaction shows how much it means to him.“I think the thing off the top of my head might be, ‘It’s about f—-g time,’” Elliottjoked toDeadlineafter his nomination. “Beyond that, it’s really about the work; it’s just about the creative process.

'A Star Is Born' : Bradley Cooper Reveals Which Parts of His Movie Were Inspired by Other Versions

Bradley Coopermade sure to honor previous iterations ofA Star Is Bornin his upcoming film. The first-time director, 43, spoke to FilmStruck to discuss his reimagining of the film in a PEOPLE exclusive clip from the interview. Cooper plays musician Jackson Maine, who struggles with personal issues while helping an up-and-coming artist, Ally (Lady Gaga), to fulfill her dreams of a music career. Maine’s name comes from the first two versions of the film — the 1937 film with Fredric March as Norman Maine and in the 1954 version with Judy Garland in which actor James Mason picked up the mantle of Norman.