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Pyeongchang Slopes

The Olympics Land on South Korea, Destroying Acres of Sacred Forests The Olympics Land on South Korea, Destroying Acres of Sacred Forests

What are we to make of the 2018 Winter Olympics?

Feb 13, 2018 / Podcast / Dave Zirin

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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible

The right-wing war on objective reality.

Feb 13, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow

Putin Russian Ice Hockey Team

The Farce of the ‘Olympic Athletes from Russia’ The Farce of the ‘Olympic Athletes from Russia’

The IOC wants to look tough on doping, but the designation has fanned the very nationalism that the Olympics are supposed to hedge against.

Feb 12, 2018 / Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff

Mike Pence introduces Trump

The ‘Right-to-Try’ Unproven Pharmaceuticals Is a Right-Wing Scheme The ‘Right-to-Try’ Unproven Pharmaceuticals Is a Right-Wing Scheme

Proposals to loosen the Food and Drug Administration’s oversight of experimental drugs sound compassionate—but there’s little evidence they’ll help patients.

Feb 12, 2018 / Zoë Carpenter

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Shoved Aside Again, DACA Activists Keep Fighting Shoved Aside Again, DACA Activists Keep Fighting

To undocumented youth activists, public gestures by Democrats ring hollow.

Feb 9, 2018 / Julianne Hing

Waldhauser at AFRICOM

The Pentagon Sent $500 Million Abroad for International Drug Wars. What Happened Next Is a Mystery. The Pentagon Sent $500 Million Abroad for International Drug Wars. What Happened Next Is a Mystery.

A report by the Defense Department’s inspector general raises questions about a combatant command with a history of scandals.

Feb 8, 2018 / Nick Turse

John Kelly

John Kelly Has Got to Go John Kelly Has Got to Go

His awful response to domestic-abuse charges involving a top aide is just the latest in a series of toxic blunders.

Feb 8, 2018 / John Nichols

Torrey Smith

Why So Many Philadelphia Eagles Are Rejecting This White House Why So Many Philadelphia Eagles Are Rejecting This White House

They are not interested in a dialogue with a president who has already convinced them of his bigotry.

Feb 8, 2018 / Dave Zirin

Turkey Journalists Protest

Turkey’s New Constitutional Crisis Could End the Rule of Law Turkey’s New Constitutional Crisis Could End the Rule of Law

In refusing to release unjustly detained journalists, the lower courts are aiding President Erdogan’s repression.

Feb 8, 2018 / Constanze Letsch

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Letters From the March 5, 2018, Issue Letters From the March 5, 2018, Issue

Hans and Franz economics… Fear and self-loathing… Millennials vs. boomers… Agree to disagree… Taxation and miseducation…

Feb 8, 2018 / Our Readers

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