Why Are People Watching Less Sports? Why Are People Watching Less Sports?
Sportswriter Jane McManus joins the show to talk about a new survey on sports viewership
Oct 20, 2020 / Podcast / Dave Zirin
First-Time Voters Want to Have a Say in Our Country’s Future First-Time Voters Want to Have a Say in Our Country’s Future
Not old enough to vote in 2016, these young voters of color are ready to fight for the world they want to live in.
Oct 20, 2020 / Laila Annmarie Stevens and Magnum Foundation
Baseball’s Race Problem Baseball’s Race Problem
More than half a century after they reenergized the sport, Black Americans may not need baseball. But baseball needs more Black players—and fans.
Oct 20, 2020 / Feature / Gene Seymour
What Joe Biden Can Learn From Jacinda Ardern What Joe Biden Can Learn From Jacinda Ardern
New Zealand’s prime minister just won a historic victory. Her formula for success was simple: science and solidarity.
Oct 19, 2020 / John Nichols
Trump Keeps Slinging Mud, but This Time It’s Not Sticking Trump Keeps Slinging Mud, but This Time It’s Not Sticking
Smear merchants like Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani are trying to peddle a sequel to the Clinton scandals of 2016—but they’ve lost their groove.
Oct 19, 2020 / Jeet Heer
How Climate-Driven Disasters Threaten Climate Progress How Climate-Driven Disasters Threaten Climate Progress
As climate change fans the flames of wildfires up and down the West Coast, those same fires also endanger efforts to combat climate change.
Oct 19, 2020 / Josh Lappen
Your Dog in the Race? Your Dog in the Race?
Trump politicizes health care, with devastating consequences.
Can Jaime Harrison Really Beat Lindsey Graham? Can Jaime Harrison Really Beat Lindsey Graham?
It won’t be easy—despite some polls showing the race in a dead heat and Harrison raising money hand over fist.
Oct 19, 2020 / Kevin Alexander Gray
Progressives Won’t Wait for Biden to Set the Course Progressives Won’t Wait for Biden to Set the Course
If Biden plans to fulfill his campaign trail promise that he’ll be the “most progressive president since FDR,” he’ll have to help lead the push for progressive policies.
Oct 19, 2020 / Robert L. Borosage
How Did We Get Here? How Did We Get Here?
Three new books by prominent liberal intellectuals—Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson’s Let Them Eat Tweets, Robert B. Reich’s The System, and Robert P. Saldin and Steven M. Teles’s ...
Oct 19, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas Lemann