Former Oakland A’s Player Bruce Maxwell Calls Out the Owner for Vegas Move Former Oakland A’s Player Bruce Maxwell Calls Out the Owner for Vegas Move
Former A’s catcher Bruce Maxwell joins the Edge of Sports podcast to discuss the team’s departure from Oakland.
May 4, 2024 / Podcast / Dave Zirin
During a Heated Covid Origins Hearing, a Scientist Comes in for Questioning During a Heated Covid Origins Hearing, a Scientist Comes in for Questioning
Peter Daszak is a high-profile virologist with close ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That relationship landed him in front of Congress this week.
May 3, 2024 / Jimmy Tobias
The Week That Student Journalists Put the Rest of the Media to Shame The Week That Student Journalists Put the Rest of the Media to Shame
Young reporters at WKCR showed what real journalism is all about while their cable news counterparts were uncritically passing along propaganda.
May 3, 2024 / Zito Madu
Eric Adams Is the Lying Face of the Campus Crackdown Eric Adams Is the Lying Face of the Campus Crackdown
New York’s mayor is the right man for the job of standing up for the indefensible.
May 3, 2024 / Jeet Heer
The Student Encampments Aren’t a Danger to Jews. But the Crackdown Is. The Student Encampments Aren’t a Danger to Jews. But the Crackdown Is.
The narrative of protesters endangering Jewish students has been used to justify police repression. But at the Columbia encampment, I saw a commitment to confronting antisemitism....
May 3, 2024 / Hadas Thier
Scenes From the Gaza Solidarity Encampments Scenes From the Gaza Solidarity Encampments
We asked five student writers to talk about the pro-Palestine protests at their schools, how their administrations have responded, and what the next steps are for organizers.
May 3, 2024 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Columbia’s Violence Against Protesters Has a Long History Columbia’s Violence Against Protesters Has a Long History
An overlooked history of selective policing at Columbia has undermined the safety of those within as well as beyond campus walls.
May 3, 2024 / T. M. Song
If Joe Biden Really Wants to Celebrate Press Freedom, He Should Free Julian Assange If Joe Biden Really Wants to Celebrate Press Freedom, He Should Free Julian Assange
Joe Biden will celebrate World Press Freedom Day tomorrow. But it is a safe bet that he'll have nothing to say about Assange or Imran Khan, both behind bars for defying the US.
May 2, 2024 / Charles Glass
MTA Bus Drivers Don’t Work for the Cops MTA Bus Drivers Don’t Work for the Cops
The six bus drivers who walked off the job rather than transport protesters slowed the city’s mass-arrest machine by sticking to their union-negotiated contract.
May 2, 2024 / Sophie Hurwitz