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.
The war in Afghanistan wasn’t a failure. It was a massive success — for those who made a fortune off it. Instead of a nation, what we really built were more than 500 military bases — and the personal fortunes of the people who supplied them.
Multiple crises have merged: a crisis of democracy; a climate crisis with lives and livelihoods upended in the Gulf Coast, the Northeast and in the West; and an economic crisis in which millions are being cut off from Pandemic Unemployment Insurance
Six weeks ago, conventional wisdom said that California Governor Gavin Newsom would either be recalled or narrowly avoid that fate. Instead, anti-recall forces won in a landslide.
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At the University of Iowa, faculty are forbidden from asking students to wear masks in classrooms or offices.
Governor Gavin Newsom will remain in office, but GOP attempts to undermine elections aren’t going anywhere.
Four Afghan women who sought refuge in America talk about their lives now and everything they gave up.
A Court that used to prize careful deliberation now seems to care more about making big change quickly.
Labor unrest, European elections, signs of a people's war in Myanmar, and a left perspective on vaxxing
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