Pride and resilience in Seattle’s LGBTQ+ spaces

This week, the team brings you stories of people overcoming obstacles to serve youth, to preserve history, to find refuge in Washington state, and still…

Myanmar Scam Compounds: Harrowing Tales of Trafficked East Africans

By Moige William  and Ronald Ssekandi East Africa’s high unemployment level is pushing young people to the extreme where well organised individuals through fraudulent job…

June 1, 2026

Oren Libermann; Jan Egeland; Ivy Meeropol; Jesmyn Ward

Jesmyn Ward: Can a Divided Nation Find Hope?

Jesmyn Ward discusses her new book "On Witness and Respair."

Monopoly Round-Up: After SpaceX Goes Public, Does the Stock Market Finally Fall?

Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO is a very scary moment for the stock market. And AI is getting repriced in an ugly way as corporate America…

Ethiopian Election 2026: All You Need to Know About Registered Candidates

May 31, 2026 (Ethiopia Insider) – The 7th general national elections in Ethiopia are scheduled for Monday, June 1, 2026. Official documents from the National Election…

Anti Fascist Book Club | Surviving Autocracy, Final Chapters 07/10/26

The Mystery Gasoline Surcharge: How Oil Incumbents Are Trying to Maintain Fossil Fuel Dominance

Potential 2028 candidate Gavin Newsom is fighting with Chevron about high gas prices. But the real stakes are about whether the U.S. will remain locked…

U.S. Supreme Court declines request to block Texas’ app age verification law

A federal appeals court had allowed Texas to require app stores to verify users’ ages and seek parental consent before a minor can download apps…

Cultivating Change: Maasai Women Rewriting the Story of Land Rights in Narok, Kenya

By Nancy Oseur Loita’s rolling green hills and untouched forests create the image of a community living in harmony with nature. Beneath this beauty, however,…

Dylan Bush

Dylan Bush cut his teeth as a news and political journalist at the Mail & Guardian from 2010 – 2015, where he covered major national…

Untraceable: Correctional services can’t locate tens of thousands of absconded parolees

The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) can’t account for almost 28,000 (27,797) high risk parolees who have absconded. Among them, convicted murderers, rapists and armed…

North South or East West? Senator Murphy | Choice Words with Samantha Bee

City Councilor Angelita Morillo’s Chief of Staff Files Discrimination Complaint

Andre Miller, the chief of staff to Councilor Angelita Morillo, filed a discrimination complaint against the councilor last week.

The ‘Lost’ Villages of Myanmar’s Rakhine

A “river of blood” was how one survivor described the scene in western Myanmar. “I saw shooting. I saw mass killing.” Another told the UN…

Banned Russian Submunitions Found After Mali’s Military Announces Airstrikes

This investigation is a collaboration between Bellingcat and Jeune Afrique. You can read Jeune Afrique’s article in French here. Unexploded Russian-made cluster munition bomblets, as…

Nigeria | Technology 0, politicians 1

By Theophilus Abbah How new machines did not help Nigerian voters “I was so frustrated and exhausted,” Josephine Ochadamu says when asked about her experiences as…

Côte d’Ivoire | A mirage of democracy 

By Selay Kouassi It is March 2025, seven months before the much-anticipated presidential elections. In the brightly lit conference room of the Plateau Mövenpick Hotel in…

Monopoly Round-Up: Private Equity Blocked from Buying Homes. Mostly.

Big business lost this fight, and a battle over railway safety and labor conditions. It's a shocking moment, as Wall Street titans start to see…

“Where’s all the f&$*#ing money going?” The Waste and Costs of American Utilities

NextEra's $67 billion takeover of Dominion shows the problem with utilities. We spend a lot, and get little in return. Why? Utility monopolies profit from…