From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The setting is worthy of a spy novel: the narrow, softly lit Mediterranean joint down a cobblestone Soho street, the ...

Smita Wadhawan has been named Chief Marketing Officer at Constant Contact, after having held the same role at sustainability ratings firm EcoVadis and at SimplePractice, a practice management platform ...

We regularly advise employers on internal disciplinary processes, and the concept of proportionality - specifically, the question “is this sanction proportionate?” - arises frequently. Initially, ...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni condemned Israeli attacks on Gaza as disproportionate on Wednesday, saying there have been “too many innocent victims" during the nearly two-year-old war sparked ...

Imagine a monochromatic world in which everyone is the same color: White. In a sense, that’s what pop culture, the history we’re taught in school and even religion often ask us to do by way of ...

To the casual observer, it might seem like the U.S. has been spent years and years in a constant state of protest, from the Women's March in 2017 to the racial uprisings in 2020 to the No Kings ...

An ancient vase depicting the death of Talos, the bronze automaton created by the god Hephaestus to guard the island of Crete ArchaiOptix via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 “May not machines ...

When California became a state in 1850, it had fewer than 100,000 residents and 27 sparsely populated counties. Several were larger in land area than some states. CALmatters is a public interest ...

The ongoing dispute between Los Angeles city and county over homelessness highlights systemic issues in California's local governance. (CalMatters/Carlin Stiehl) California's historical county ...