The NFL Is Desperately Trying to Avoid a Players’ Strike The NFL Is Desperately Trying to Avoid a Players’ Strike
The league is hoping that slogans on the field and a push for voting will be enough to quell another sports strike for racial justice.
Sep 3, 2020 / Dave Zirin
The Authorities Are Still Gunning for Breonna Taylor The Authorities Are Still Gunning for Breonna Taylor
While the police officers who killed Taylor remain at large, prosecutors have been harassing the Black men who knew her in a desperate attempt to tarnish her name.
Sep 2, 2020 / Elie Mystal
Post. Election. Post. Election.
USPS head Louis DeJoy undermines democracy.
Sep 2, 2020 / OppArt / Paul Karasik and Colleen Quinn
Covid Country Diary Covid Country Diary
We left Manhattan for the Catskills in March; two months into the city’s lockdown, this rural county had the highest per capita number of new cases in the state.
Sep 2, 2020 / Laura Flanders
Back-to-School Threat Back-to-School Threat
Classes in a pandemic as cases among young people rise.
The Sports Strikes Against Racism Have Not Been Coopted The Sports Strikes Against Racism Have Not Been Coopted
Even as the energy of the last week is being steered in a safer direction and away from labor militancy, we still don’t know how this story is going to end.
Aug 31, 2020 / Dave Zirin
The Inevitable Whitelash Against Racial Justice Has Started The Inevitable Whitelash Against Racial Justice Has Started
As Black people fight for our lives, white supremacists reach for their guns—and white allies go soft.
Aug 31, 2020 / Elie Mystal
Close to Zero Close to Zero
This is what it looks like since Trump doesn't believe in science, the World Health Organization, or his own health advisors.
Jacob Blake Was Shot in Kenosha, a City Adrift in a Moral Desert Jacob Blake Was Shot in Kenosha, a City Adrift in a Moral Desert
The crisis of policing in one Wisconsin city illustrates a national calamity. Yet Republicans—both nationally and in Wisconsin’s capital—block even modest reform.
Aug 31, 2020 / John Nichols
