As a new Zinn biography makes clear, A People’s History of the United States arose from a life of deep and admirable commitment. Read it, and you will be shocked and outraged, and learn. But as historical analysis, it has real flaws.
Dave Zirin’s extraordinary new book is devoted to telling how a star athlete “taking a knee” inspired young athletes across the country to join a historic social movement.
A new study moves us one step closer to diagnosing the early stages devastating brain damage (CTE) in the living, which could turn football on its head.
The game has changed, and the bosses are operating on outdated software. They are losing in a contest where they barely seem to grasp the rules. Meanwhile players, fans and political activists have been able to take the carefully scripted narrative of corporate sports and engineer a series of dramatic rewrites.
Meanwhile ... we have the specter this weekend of games that could be a train-wreck waiting to happen.
Tragically it is not the kind of character valued in the NFL, and that’s the heart of the damn problem.
Baseball may not be a game that handles change without crisis. But it is a game that makes saps of us all.
The time to organize resistance begins now, with no illusions in the IOC, their corporate sponsors, or the good will of our own government.
Whether or not there is a boycott, connecting Putin's systematic attacks on LGBT people to the Sochi Olympics is a stroke of political genius
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