‘The Athletic Is the Negation of Local Sports Coverage’

Janine Jackson interviews Dave Zirin FAIR - Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
They say, “Hey, we’re going to have the best sports coverage in the world.” After you fire or reassign all your sports reporters? That’s how you make the step to have the best sports coverage in the world?

August 2, 2023

Heather Cox Richardson Letters from an American
“I understand Trump fatigue, but it feels like the president and his advisors preparing to use the military to quash protests against his planned coup should be bigger news."

US Leaders Split on China Policy

Richard Wolff CounterPunch
On the one hand, U.S. policy aims to constrain China’s economic and military development because it is our chief competitor and thus enemy. On the other hand, it seeks to secure the benefits of U.S. companies’ trade with and investments in China.

Friday Nite Videos | August 4, 2023

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One Company Controls America’s Entire Health Care System. Bob Dylan | A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall. Reservation Dogs | Season 3. Oppenheimer’s Secret City, Explained. How Humans Change Their Own DNA.

Reservation Dogs | Season 3

Season 3 of Reservation Dogs follows the exploits of four Indigenous Oklahoma teenagers stranded in Cali trying to figure out their way back home. Streaming on FX.

How Humans Change Their Own DNA

Thanks to our ability to develop and share complex learned behaviors across generations - a thing we sometimes call culture - we have become the creators of our own environment.

Florida Activists Aim To Put Abortion Rights on the Ballot

Regan McCarthy NPR
A Florida Supreme Court decision is expected to trigger a six-week ban passed by the Republican-led state legislature. But an effort is now underway to enshrine the right to abortion in Florida's constitution up to the point of fetal viability.