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They say, “Hey, we’re going to have the best sports coverage in the world.” After you fire or reassign all your sports reporters? That’s how you make the step to have the best sports coverage in the world?

In Kenya, political elites across the spectrum are trying to sell off the country for themselves—capitulation is inevitable.

The people of Niger, facing a desperate situation, are threatened with the withdrawal of vital humanitarian aid from the country in response to the coup, a move tantamount to a punitive measure and essentially exploiting aid as leverage.

On July 27, the hotel workers union in LA, UNITE HERE Local 11, in a full page ad in the Los Angeles Times, asked Swift to cancel her six sold-out concerts at SoFi stadium in Inglewood, in solidarity with the 15,000 hotel workers who have been on s

Mississippi poet Philip C. Kolin reminds us of the next imminent global disaster—bad water—and in some places it’s already here.

The AI boom began with an unprecedented feat of tedious, repetitive, precarious labor. As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere.

The 1870s laws passed by the Reconstruction Congress to enforce 14th Amendment rights and to protect Black voters, ignored for decades, are now being used against Trump.

The two-day poll, which closed before Trump's Thursday arraignment, asked respondents if they would vote for Trump for president if he were "convicted of a felony crime by a jury." Among Republicans, 45% said they would not; 35% said they would.

Ultimately, Trump is not the main danger. Trump was aided and abetted by millions of co-conspirators: the MAGA Republicans who bought his lies and still do.

A Florida Supreme Court decision is expected to trigger a six-week ban passed by the Republican-led state legislature. But an effort is now underway to enshrine the right to abortion in Florida's constitution up to the point of fetal viability.