Ahead of its first match in the 2026 World Cup, the Haitian national soccer team was forced to make a last-minute change. But it didn't have anything to do with its roster or travel plans. It was the team's jersey.
FIFA, the sport's global governing body, said the jersey design violated its rules, which ban political slogans or imagery.
FIFA banned Haiti's original jersey due its nod to the Haitian Revolution on the right hip of the jersey. Leonardo Fernandez/Getty Images
FIFA didn't (…)

This Aliansi Perempuan Indonesia (API, Indonesian Women's Alliance) press release demands that the Prabowo–Gibran government answer for the deepening cost-of-living crisis, rising unemployment, and systematic violence against women. The statement insists that the current crisis is not an isolated event but the accumulation of state policies that have failed to protect the people. [WL]
The Aliansi Perempuan Indonesia (API, Indonesian Women's Alliance) is calling for collective action to (…)

Born in Bradford and shaped by northern art-school discipline, David Hockney brought a working-class, almost punk refusal to British art: do the work, trust the eye, do not ask for approval. Hockney made success look effortless: all colour, good humour, great glasses, cigarettes and smoky charm. But for a young gay artist from a northern mill town, nothing about that journey was effortless.
Hockney knew what it was to be judged before he was properly seen. In Britain, class prejudice (…)