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LGBTQ in Africa, Ecuador ablaze, and talk of stalemate in Myanmar

With the seemingly modest step of agreeing not to oppose workers' efforts to unionize, Microsoft has upended long-held assumptions about Big Tech's hostility to organized labor.

This author's apparent attempt to save the MAGA ideology from the far right, says reviewer Washington, "is in the end a dangerous nationalist concoction, based on an ideology that takes losers as a must and broadens existing divisions."

"People across the country—and across party lines—want corporate giants and their enablers held to account," says advocacy group, citing fresh survey data.

With three decisions this month, the Court could break the back of Washington’s authority over regulation. Then, the battles over some of America’s biggest issues shift to the states.

Parting company with almost every other U.S. big business, Microsoft says it won’t oppose employee unionization.

The January 6 committee, Justice Department, and activists are diverging.

Right-wing media in lockstep with Trump’s coup, and more

David Cronenberg’s latest film, Crimes of the Future, is a return to the “body horror” genre. It brings back the gross-out gore that first made his career in the 1970s — but without the thrills.

Years before the climate crisis was part of national discourse, this memo to the president predicted catastrophe