Who Was Your Sports Hero Growing Up? Who Was Your Sports Hero Growing Up?
Who was your sports hero growing up, and why? Tell us in 200 words or less.
Jul 27, 2011 / The Nation
Nation Conversations: Katrina vanden Heuvel and Dave Zirin on The Nation’s Sports Issue Nation Conversations: Katrina vanden Heuvel and Dave Zirin on The Nation’s Sports Issue
Sports is an integral part of our political culture—the struggles for racial justice, gender equality, social and economic change are all reflected in sports culture and history. Though many treat sports as an "escape," it is almost impossible to escape politics and social issues through sports. From Jackie Robinson and the first integrated sports teams to Pat Tillman and our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the politics of sports is woven into the fabric of our nation. In this Nation Conversation, Sports Correspondent Dave Zirin joins Editor and Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel to give some backstory to The Nation's second-ever special issue dedicated to sports, and explains how progressive politics and sports continue to overlap today. —Anna Lekas Miller
Jul 27, 2011 / The Nation
Slide Show: Jennifer Egan on Monica Seles, Plus Jane Mayer, Bob Herbert and Many More on Their Sports Heroes Slide Show: Jennifer Egan on Monica Seles, Plus Jane Mayer, Bob Herbert and Many More on Their Sports Heroes
For our special Sports Issue, The Nation asked a distinguished group of writers, thinkers and advocates to pay tribute to their sports heroes. Among the many contributions are Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Jennifer Egan on tennis phenom Monica Seles, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban on Willie Stargell, filmaker John Sayles on Roberto Clemente, New Yorker writer Jane Mayer on Arthur Ashe and Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards on Carl Yastremski. The result is a package of moving mini-essays all expressing, in their own way, a feeling many of us share: pure love of the game. View all of their responses in this slide show of sports heroes.
Jul 27, 2011 / The Nation
The Trouble With Tomatoes: Slave Labor (and That Cardboard Taste) The Trouble With Tomatoes: Slave Labor (and That Cardboard Taste)
South Florida is a terrible place to grow tomatoes—or to work in the tomato fields.
Jul 27, 2011 / Jon Wiener
Why Were Minority Households Hit Harder by the Recession? Why Were Minority Households Hit Harder by the Recession?
Melissa Harris-Perry discusses the widening wealth gap between minority and white households.
Jul 26, 2011 / Press Room
Separate and Unequal: Intellectual Stratification in Schools Separate and Unequal: Intellectual Stratification in Schools
The dangers of classifying students according to their intellectual ability.
Jul 26, 2011 / StudentNation / Britney Wilson
Glenn Beck’s ‘Hitler Youth’ Slur on Norway Victims Confuses WWII Sides Glenn Beck’s ‘Hitler Youth’ Slur on Norway Victims Confuses WWII Sides
After Anders Breivik murdered dozens of young socialists, Beck compared the dead to “Hitler Youth.” But the slain were actually heirs to a great tradition of battling N...
Jul 26, 2011 / John Nichols
The GOP’s Politics of Bad Faith The GOP’s Politics of Bad Faith
After years of unnecessary spending and tax cuts, Republican politicians are finally complaining about unfathomable amounts of debt.
Jul 26, 2011 / Press Room
The GOP’s Politics of Bad Faith The GOP’s Politics of Bad Faith
After years of unnecessary spending and tax cuts, Republican politicians are finally complaining about unfathomable amounts of debt.
Jul 26, 2011 / MSNBC
Why Were Minority Households Hit Harder by the Recession? Why Were Minority Households Hit Harder by the Recession?
Melissa Harris-Perry discusses the widening wealth gap between minority and white households.
Jul 26, 2011 / MSNBC