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.
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.
Climate progress by large food companies is hobbled by lack of commitment to deep, structural emission reductions, especially regarding methane.
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 the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
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.
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.
Wilson draws on the work of researchers like Russell Belk (on “the extended self”), Paul Rozin (on magical thinking), and Marcel Mauss (on gift-giving) to help us understand why we invest so much meaning in material things.
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