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Chamique Holdsclaw #23, Forward for the Tennessee Lady Volunteers cuts the net on the backboard hoop to celebrate winning the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Midwest Regional Tournament Final game against the University of Connecticut UConn Huskies on March 24, 1997, at the Carver-Hawkeye Arena, Iowa City, Iowa.

Chamique Holdsclaw on Depression and Fame Chamique Holdsclaw on Depression and Fame

On this episode of the Edge of Sports podcast, the legendary athlete speaks frankly about sports fame and mental health.

Sep 12, 2023 / Audio / Dave Zirin

US journalist Naomi Klein (L), columnist for The Nation and The Guardian and the author of “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism,” speaks as Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize–winning economist and University Professor at Columbia University, listens at a debate on Economic Power on October 20, 2008, during the Great Issues Forum at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in New York.

Naomi Klein and Her Doppelgänger Naomi Klein and Her Doppelgänger

On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Laura Marsh discusses the differences between Naomi Klein and Naomi Wolf.

Sep 10, 2023 / Audio / Jeet Heer

President Trump Departs White House For Campaign Stops In Minnesota

Heather Cox Richardson on “Our Authoritarian Experiment” Heather Cox Richardson on “Our Authoritarian Experiment”

On this episode of the Start Making Sense podcast, conversations about Trump, Chile, and “the other 9-11.”

Sep 7, 2023 / Audio / Jon Wiener

Michael Jordan during the first quarter of Game 5 of the NBA finals in Chicago, June 12, 1998.

Basketball Butterfly Effect Part III: MJ in Portland? Basketball Butterfly Effect Part III: MJ in Portland?

On this episode of Edge of Sports, Arya Shirazi discusses Michael Jordan and Michael Oher.

Sep 5, 2023 / Audio / Dave Zirin

Cillian Murphy in “Oppenheimer”

Oppenheimer’s Inopportune Opportunism Oppenheimer’s Inopportune Opportunism

Podcast / The Time of Monsters / Sep 3, 2023 Oppenheimer’s Inopportune Opportunism On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Doug Bell joins the show to discuss Oppenheimer, M…

Sep 3, 2023 / Audio

Members of the Writers Guild of America East on the picket line outside of the Peacock NewFront on May 2, 2023, in New York City.

Our Hot Labor Summer, Plus Melania, Ivanka, and Those 91 Felony Charges Our Hot Labor Summer, Plus Melania, Ivanka, and Those 91 Felony Charges

On this episode of Start Making Sense, Harold Meyerson discusses historic labor action, and Amy Wilentz comments on the Trump family’s response to the indictments.

Aug 31, 2023 / Audio / Jon Wiener

Kobe Bryant

The Ballad of Kobe Bean The Ballad of Kobe Bean

On this episode of Edge of Sports, Arya Shirazi joins the show for part two of our discussion on basketball “butterfly effects.”

Aug 28, 2023 / Audio / Dave Zirin

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis listens as former vice president Mike Pence and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy talk at the same time during a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by the Fox News Channel on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, in Milwaukee.

The Trump Wannabees The Trump Wannabees

On this episode of the The Time of Monsters, Chris Lehmann discusses the GOP candidates on the debate stage trying to copy the party’s one true star.

Aug 27, 2023 / Audio / Jeet Heer

Fani Willis at center, at a podium, flanked by her colleagues.

Drew Faust Remembers the Sixties—Plus Erwin Chemerinsky on Trump and Georgia Drew Faust Remembers the Sixties—Plus Erwin Chemerinsky on Trump and Georgia

On this episode of Start Making Sense, Harvard’s first woman president describes growing up in the Virginia elite, and the dean of UC Berkeley's law school analyzes the Georgia in...

Aug 24, 2023 / Audio / Jon Wiener

Nadine Seiler attends a rally for voting rights in front of the Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C., on December 7, 2022.

Delegitimize the Supreme Court Delegitimize the Supreme Court

On the final episode of Contempt of Court, Elie Mystal is joined by legal experts Nikolas Bowie and Rhiannon Hamam to understand how we might strip the court of its presumed legit...

Aug 22, 2023 / Audio / Elie Mystal

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