The NFL Is Desperately Trying to Avoid a Players’ Strike The NFL Is Desperately Trying to Avoid a Players’ Strike
The league is hoping that slogans on the field and a push for voting will be enough to quell another sports strike for racial justice.
Sep 3, 2020 / Dave Zirin
You Think Things Couldn’t Get Any Worse With the Pandemic? You Think Things Couldn’t Get Any Worse With the Pandemic?
Think again. The past two weeks have been nothing short of a clusterfuck in Washington.
Sep 3, 2020 / Gregg Gonsalves
The Sycophants at Fox News The Sycophants at Fox News
Brian Stelter’s book Hoax gets half the story about the toadies of cable news.
Sep 3, 2020 / Column / Eric Alterman
The Authorities Are Still Gunning for Breonna Taylor The Authorities Are Still Gunning for Breonna Taylor
While the police officers who killed Taylor remain at large, prosecutors have been harassing the Black men who knew her in a desperate attempt to tarnish her name.
Sep 2, 2020 / Elie Mystal
For Tara Raghuveer, ‘Every Eviction Is an Act of Violence’ For Tara Raghuveer, ‘Every Eviction Is an Act of Violence’
The director of the KC Tenants explains the radicalizing power of housing activism.
Sep 2, 2020 / Q&A / Nawal Arjini
Donald Trump Came to Kenosha to Make the Most Vile Campaign Commercial in American Political History Donald Trump Came to Kenosha to Make the Most Vile Campaign Commercial in American Political History
Trump implemented his “law-and-order” strategy with a Wisconsin trip that was low on sympathy and high on campaign rhetoric.
Sep 2, 2020 / John Nichols
Post. Election. Post. Election.
USPS head Louis DeJoy undermines democracy.
Sep 2, 2020 / OppArt / Paul Karasik and Colleen Quinn
The Sitting President Has No Climate Plan. Why Isn’t That Headline News? The Sitting President Has No Climate Plan. Why Isn’t That Headline News?
As hurricanes and wildfires sweep through the US, the president offers no ideas—and journalists have been giving him a pass.
Sep 2, 2020 / Andrew McCormick
The Disturbing Story Behind the Beirut Port Explosion The Disturbing Story Behind the Beirut Port Explosion
Abandonment of ships, “flags of convenience,” and lax law enforcement are common at sea, often with tragic consequences.
Sep 2, 2020 / Ian Urbina
Covid Country Diary Covid Country Diary
We left Manhattan for the Catskills in March; two months into the city’s lockdown, this rural county had the highest per capita number of new cases in the state.
Sep 2, 2020 / Laura Flanders