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In one of its final moves of 2022, Congress approved a $25 million funding increase for the National Labor Relations Board, an agency which has been chronically short-staffed and underfunded. The board has been struggling to keep up with a demand in the number of workers who want to unionize. This year, it saw a 53% increase in petitions to unionize, and said the agency will need much more funding to keep up. ...

A case before the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington state could have big implications for labor unions and their ability to strike. The case, Glacier Northwest versus the International Brotherhood of Teamsters is scheduled for a hearing in January. ...

A conversation with Jo-Anne McArthur, a photographer who uses her camera to fight for the welfare of animals around the world.

In a one-on-one interview with Mark Malloch-Brown, global head of George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, Daily Maverick was confronted with a set of contradictions that cut to the heart of our planetary predicament. The start was OSF’s decision to reconceptualise Africa as a single, homogenou...

 About the PodcastRegarded as one of the modern world’s icons of diplomacy, what is Kofi Annan’s legacy today? What can we learn from him, and how can we prepare for tomorrow, based o