29 Oct 202323.21 EDTFinal thoughts
Okay, we officially have a series! Assuming one has no rooting interest in either of the remaining teams, there’s no greater start to a World Series than a split in the first two games. A 1-1 split is an ideal situation for the casual fan as it usually portends a longer series. It is, of course, a less than ideal situation for the Rangers. Today, their weaknesses were exposed and they know their two-game home stand could have gone worse: they needed plenty of late-inning drama just to pull off a come-from-behind win in Game 1.
Cif beliefSaudi Arabia This article is more than 14 years oldA proposal Saudis can't refuseThis article is more than 14 years oldSyed Neaz AhmadIt may be the world's most puritanical kingdom but there are still legal ways to have sex on the sideSaudi Arabia's conservative society stands divided on the issue of misyar, a no-strings marriage of convenience that has become increasingly popular in the kingdom.
Misyar is a form of marriage that allows couples to live separately but come together for sexual relations.
A book that changed meLGBTQ+ rights This article is more than 10 years oldHow the Gay Liberation Front Manifesto helped to shape meThis article is more than 10 years oldPeter TatchellThe 1971 manifesto expanded my civil rights perspective into a radical critique of heterosexism, male privilege and gender rolesThe Gay Liberation Front Manifesto was a revolution in consciousness when it was published in London in 1971, and it remains revolutionary today.
US unions This article is more than 1 month oldMore than 1,000 workers sign up to unionize at top US Volkswagen plantThis article is more than 1 month oldUAW says effort at Chattanooga plant in Tennessee is booming as union aims expand membership after recent victories
More than 1,000 workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant in Tennessee – the automaker’s flagship US manufacturing site – have signaled they want to unionize, a significant early win in the United Auto Workers’ latest attempt to expand its membership.
US crimeNew York sergeant, wife and two sons found dead in murder-suicide, police sayMan fatally shot his wife and their sons before dying by suicide in a suburban New York home, according to police
A police sergeant, his wife and their two sons – ages 10 and 12 – were found dead in a suburban home in New York in what police said was a triple murder-suicide.
Watson Morgan, 49, a sergeant with the Bronxville police department, fatally shot his wife, Ornela Morgan, 43, and their sons before dying by suicide, police said.
Book of the dayScience and nature booksReviewThe story of how dogs, horses, cattle, apples, rice and other species were domesticated proves an excellent perspective on deep human history
There is a revolution going on in history – big, broad-sweep history that attempts to tell the story of the long march of humanity. As Alice Roberts’s book exemplifies, we now have a multitude of paths into the deep past: “geography, archaeology, history and genetics”, of which for her the most important is genetics.
There are two kinds of antiracism. Only one works, and it has nothing to do with diversity traini
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OpinionRace This article is more than 6 months oldThere are two kinds of antiracism. Only one works, and it has nothing to do with ‘diversity training’This article is more than 6 months oldArun KundnaniWhile liberal antiracists argue over vocabulary, radicals take direct action – which is the only way to change the system
In news that ought to please antiracist campaigners everywhere, just recently everybody seems to be talking about antiracism.
World newsLast dive for Lake Toplitz's Nazi goldAustrian government licenses a hi-tech US treasure hunter in the hope of solving a 60-year-old mysteryIt has inspired numerous expeditions, several mysterious deaths and plenty of books. But 60 years after Nazi officers hid metal boxes in the depths of Lake Toplitz, a new attempt is being made to recover the Third Reich's fabled lost gold.
The Austrian government has given a US team permission to make an underwater expedition to the log-infested bottom of the lake.
Inside the wreckage of the USS Conestoga, missing for 95 years GuardianWater transport This article is more than 7 years oldScientists solve mystery of USS Conestoga, which disappeared in 1921This article is more than 7 years oldShipwreck off San Francisco is identified as last US navy vessel to be lost without a trace in peacetime A US navy tug missing since 1921 has been discovered sunk off San Francisco, solving a longstanding maritime mystery.