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The English-speaking left does not need to invent immigrant-worker organizing from scratch. It needs to recognize, join, and resource the networks already leading it.

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Sangwoo Cho traces Ben Shapiro’s changing place in a conservative movement increasingly divided over Israel, media, and America First.

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In Amsterdam, an uncertain search for salt becomes Shreya Dharavath’s case for moving through unfamiliar places with curiosity, humility, and room for connection.

Forty-nine years after Elvis Presley’s death, his image still reveals how celebrity, commerce and cultural memory reinforce one another.

Inside Barcelona's Palau de la Música Catalana, architecture, patronage and Catalan identity meet beneath a stained-glass sun.

On the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, the U.N. is focusing on midwives whose knowledge protects mothers, babies and community rights.

Solarpunk imagines a hopeful ecological future, but realizing it would require changes far beyond green architecture and individual consumption.

The decline of shared public life may be giving partisan identity more power to define how Americans see one another.

A delivery rider’s poetry joins a larger tradition of working-class writers turning labor, exhaustion, and survival into art.

Formula 1’s calendar is a business portfolio shaped by market strategy, public funding, heritage, and the scarcity of coveted grid slots.

A disputed World Cup suspension became a test of how FIFA protects the appearance and reality of independence when political power seeks access.

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India’s Cockroach Janta Party turned an insult against unemployed youth into a national movement demanding accountability for an examination system in crisis.

Look at the roster of the French national team. Then look at the history of French colonialism in West and North Africa. The connection between those two things is not coincidental. It is the entire story. France's ability to field one of the most competitive squads in the world in 2026 is inseparable from the migration patterns set in motion by its imperial history, the communities that formed in its cities as a result, and the young men who grew up in those communities drea

The United States turns 250 years old this week. The NPR/PBS News/Marist poll released July 1, 2026 asked Americans how they feel about that milestone. The results do not describe a nation in the mood for celebration. They describe a nation that is exhausted, divided, and deeply uncertain about whether the system it inherited is capable of delivering on what it promised. The poll is worth sitting with. Not because any single survey can capture the full complexity of what 330

In an era of "uncs," "bums," and "goons," one term circulating among American teenagers stands out for its deeply political, and largely unknown, origin: "chud." The word began its life as the title of a 1984 horror film, "C.H.U.D.," an acronym for "Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers." From there, it was adopted by left-wing communities on 4chan as a derogatory label for right-wing individuals, before migrating into mainstream social media as a broader insult directe