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Adam Silver became the NBA commissioner in 2014. Since then, he has wholeheartedly embraced sports gambling while making games harder for ordinary people to watch.

Brian Bilston, self-proclaimed "Poet, Philosopher & Failure," offers a succinct analysis of the American character.

Taking a comparative approach based on global case studies, this is an incisive and important contribution to the understanding of democracy’s evolving institutional challenges, writes Samira Allioui.

In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help

By signing the “Real Food, Healthy Kids Act” into law, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has taken control of a growing movement to reform the nation’s food supply. The state legislature passed the bill in mid-September.

In two decades, the app has grown from a user-generated circus into the most powerful platform on earth. CEO Neal Mohan on his $100 billion vision for YouTube’s future and the disruption it’s left in its wake.

Poet Diane Schenker offers us a hymn to the subversive potential of poetry.

A new comics collection from Raymond Tyler and Paul Buhle tells the stories of unsung partisan heroes who fought fascism across Europe. We have no alternative. Time is short. We should admire the heroes of Partisans and proceed to blaze our own path

Historian Ned Blackhawk stresses the importance of telling US history with a wider and more inclusive lens.

Keira Knightley cuts a more glamorous figure than most Guardian staff in her new Netflix film The Woman in Cabin 10, while Tennant is a dead ringer for star reporter Nick Davies. But how convincing are they?