Tiger Woods: Rehabbing His Brand Tiger Woods: Rehabbing His Brand
Today's Tiger Woods press conference was an exercise in painful self-abasement that will achieve the opposite of its intended effect. I haven't seen anything this painfully scripte...
Feb 19, 2010 / Dave Zirin
Human Interest In Bank Practices Human Interest In Bank Practices
How much senior executives earn, in cash and stock, is public information. How they make it is public too. Trouble is, the two are barely brought together in reporting.
Feb 17, 2010 / Laura Flanders
Justice at Last? Justice at Last?
Justice may finally be imaginable for Edna Glover and her family. The charred remains of her son Henry were discovered in the burnt hulk of a car on a levee overlooking the Mississ...
Feb 13, 2010 / Esther Kaplan
Christopher Hitchens: Sporting Fool Christopher Hitchens: Sporting Fool
Nuance is the mortal enemy of essayist Christopher Hitchens.
Feb 12, 2010 / Dave Zirin
CNN Un-Dobbed! CNN Un-Dobbed!
"So the haters have Fox, the lovers who are afraid to be hurt again have MSNBC, but what about all the people who watched the speech and found it too straightforward and under...
Feb 11, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Leslie Savan
Pledge to Save Journalism Pledge to Save Journalism
All that guff you're hearing about the importance of public service reporting that's insulated from the influence of corporate advertisers? It's not guff -- as ABC TV affiliates in...
Feb 10, 2010 / Laura Flanders
When Snow Melts: Vancouver’s Olympic Crackdown When Snow Melts: Vancouver’s Olympic Crackdown
News Flash: Winter Olympic officials in tropical Vancouver have been forced to import snow - on the public dime - to make sure that the 2010 games proceed as planned. This use of t...
Feb 9, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Dave Zirin
Lifting the Veil on US Troops in Pakistan Lifting the Veil on US Troops in Pakistan
"The deaths of three American soldiers in a Taliban suicide attack on Wednesday lifted the veil on United States military assistance to Pakistan." So began a Feb 4th pie...
Feb 9, 2010 / Laura Flanders
Who Dat? Dat’s the Super Bowl Champs! Who Dat? Dat’s the Super Bowl Champs!
The New Orleans Saints won Super Bowl 44. I can't believe I'm even typing the words. Five years ago this was the team considered most likely to be moved to Los Angeles. Four and a ...
Feb 8, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Dave Zirin
Another Super Bowl, Another Scandal Another Super Bowl, Another Scandal
It's Super Bowl season, another year, another scandal. This year's outburst over CBS's $3 million Focus on the Family ad has revived the mythology around another Super Bowl ad, t...
Feb 5, 2010 / Laura Flanders