Issue No. 4 | Malawi's Miracle, Europe's New Season, and the Limits of the Progressive Wave The stories worth your time. Every Wednesday. Welcome back to The Midweek Brief, OffTheRecord's weekly look at the stories shaping sports, politics, culture and everything in between. This week, football has given us one of the most unexpected stories of the summer. Malawi are going to the WAFCON final. A nation that had never reached the knockout stages of the tournament has now reach

Issue No. 3 | African Football Delivers, AEW Heads to Mexico, and Michigan Makes Headlines The stories worth your time. Every Wednesday. Welcome back to the Midweek Brief, where we take a step back from the endless news cycle and look at the biggest stories shaping sport, politics, and culture. Whether it's an underdog making history, a wrestling spectacle, or a political upset, this is where we put it all into perspective. Malawi impress in their first WAFCON, advancing to t

The stories worth your time. Every Wednesday. There has never been more information at our fingertips. Every day we're flooded with breaking news, transfer rumors, political headlines, viral clips, and stories that disappear almost as quickly as they arrive. It can feel impossible to separate what's important from what's merely loud. That's where The Midweek Brief comes in. Every Wednesday, OffTheRecord will take a step back from the constant news cycle and highlight the stor

Senegal is entering one of the most fascinating eras in its football history. Not because of a single tournament win, and not because of one generational superstar carrying them through qualification campaigns; because everything around the national team is finally aligning at the same time. The infrastructure is improving. The talent pipeline is stronger than ever. The European development pathway is producing more complete, tactically aware players. And at the center of it

The Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot 1802, Public Domain There’s a myth Americans repeat like gospel: that white people “freed the slaves.” As if abolition were a benevolent gift instead of the most hard-fought, blood-soaked struggle against white power in the Atlantic world. As if Black liberation didn’t come from Black resistance. As if Haiti—the first Black republic, the first successful slave revolution in human history didn’t shatter the entire foundation of Western slavery lon