Fireworks, facial recognition and a Katy Perry no-show: A look inside the grand American celebration in Brussels.

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The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.

Born a year after the Soweto Uprising, I grew up in a South Africa where many of the injustices students protested in 1976 were still part of daily life. Fifty years later, their fight for dignity, eq...

For decades, a guy named Aadam Jacobs has been recording live music shows. His collection of over 10,000 shows since 1984 feature the likes of Nirvana, R.E.M., The Pixies, Björk, Depeche Mode, Liz Phair, Sonic Youth, The

Amid deportation drama and a year after a scuffle that made national headlines, McIver fights back with the 'No Delay' act.

Critics are pointing to two other serious felony cases that the attorney general’s prosecutors took to trial that ended in mistrials and, eventually, plea deals.

The 1970s were a brave new era for music, but these artists somehow managed to push it a step further and take the art into wild new realms.

“But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States….”

This is the fourth post in our theme series for May, Cities at Play. By Dan Holland This year’s NFL Draft, held in Pittsburgh from April 23rd-25th, attracted an estimated 800,000 fans over three days, a record reinforcing the importance of sport to cities in the post-industrial era.1 Sport has long been deeply embedded in Pittsburgh’s Black community as a catalyst for change and an indicator of success and resilience in the face of discrimination.

The punk rock artist, former member of Canadian parliament, author, and activist Charlie Angus came out swinging against American authoritarianism in the earliest days of Donald Trump’s catastrophic s...

Too many journalists are averting their eyes from the racism of redistricting

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Liberation from tyranny is also liberation for the tyrants.

Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. They are the mechanisms through which complex societies