Is It Time to Cancel Football? Is It Time to Cancel Football?
Now, as the Super Bowl looms, is it time to turn your back on football? Or would you prefer to “man up” and leave any qualms about its violence in the dust of recent history?
Feb 10, 2023 / Robert Lipsyte
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, You’re No Jack Kennedy Sarah Huckabee Sanders, You’re No Jack Kennedy
Trying to evoke a lost Cold War consensus, the GOP’s rising star conflated “normal” with “crazy.”
Feb 10, 2023 / Jeet Heer
Inside the Campaign to Unionize the University of Oregon Inside the Campaign to Unionize the University of Oregon
If the Oregon workers are successful, they believe they will be the nation’s largest undergraduate student union at a public university.
Feb 10, 2023 / StudentNation / Porter Wheeler
The Fight to Defeat the Name of the Kansas City Chiefs The Fight to Defeat the Name of the Kansas City Chiefs
As the Kansas City Chiefs compete again in the Super Bowl, it's time to take their racist name off the national stage.
Feb 10, 2023 / Simon Moya-Smith
Heartbreak Is Life: Reflections of a Football Fan Heartbreak Is Life: Reflections of a Football Fan
Like life, football is ultimately about loss, struggle, grace, danger, and finding joy wherever we can.
Feb 10, 2023 / Photo Essay / JoAnn Wypijewski
Why Disability Justice Is Crucial for Liberation Why Disability Justice Is Crucial for Liberation
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, author of The Future Is Disabled, explains how disabled wisdom can help us all fight fascism and climate change.
Feb 10, 2023 / Q&A / Laura Flanders
Chief Justice Roberts Portrays His Court as Heroic Chief Justice Roberts Portrays His Court as Heroic
(Rather than a cohort of extremists that ignores judicial precedent and makes up facts to suit its agenda.)
Feb 10, 2023 / Column / Elie Mystal
You Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, “Gotta Hand It to” Ron DeSantis You Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, “Gotta Hand It to” Ron DeSantis
Pamela Paul's latest New York Times op-ed argues that the left should take a lesson from the right-wing Florida governor.
Feb 9, 2023 / Chris Lehmann
Congress Shouldn’t Clap for Tyre Nichols’s Parents—They Should Apologize Congress Shouldn’t Clap for Tyre Nichols’s Parents—They Should Apologize
Many of the people rising for Nichols’s parents during the State of the Union didn’t do enough to prevent his death—and quite a few did worse than that.
Feb 9, 2023 / Elie Mystal
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll Took Place 60 Years Ago Today The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll Took Place 60 Years Ago Today
From Emmett Till to Hattie Carroll to Amadou Diallo to Freddie Gray to Breonna Taylor to Tyre Nichols—the senseless deaths caused by the racism embedded in the DNA of our country h...
Feb 9, 2023 / Marc Steiner