As the World Cup kicks off, many are asking whether the beautiful game is still as beautiful as it once was. The build-up to the tournament has been beset by g…

Good morning. Hilary Benn , secretary for Northern Ireland , has accused people online of trying to incite disorder in Belfast after two days of unrest in the …

Trump-fuelled controversy is dominating the World Cup

The 2026 World Cup kicks off on Thursday with a record 48 teams vying for the most coveted prize in football and a slew of controversies over ticket prices, ge…

With the AFL-CIO convention in the rearview and the UAW convention ahead, the future of union participation in politics is far from settled, especially as memb…

In today’s edition, Ben Kamisar takes stock of the half-billion dollars Tom Steyer has spent over the course of two unsuccessful bids for office.

(The Conversation) — For more than a century, anti-Catholicism was a powerful force in the region’s culture and politics. But religious pluralism ultimately tr…

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In the UK – and across the west - incendiary language and white supremacist policies are entering the political mainstream W hat qualifies as too rightwing th…

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will stand in the country's next elections, his party said on Wednesday, which is scheduled to take place in late Oc…

Workers work from a crane at Los Angeles Stadium (temporarily renamed from SoFi Stadium) on June 7, ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via…