Of all the hot button issues in American politics and culture right now, apparently one can unite liberals and conservative alike: how terribly the NCAA treats its student athletes. Monday morning, the Supreme Court unanimously sided with a group of student athletes who challenged NCAA restrictions on compensation. While this …
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When America lost Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the world lost a symbol of justice, brilliance, and goodness. She was petite in size, but monumental in impact. Her passing is an incalculable loss for our democracy and for all who strive to build a better future for our children. Justice Ginsburg …
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If you’re looking for a little distraction from the news of the pandemic — something a little gossipy, but with a point at the end about how change happens in the world — this essay may soak up a few minutes. I’ll tell the story chronologically, starting a couple of …
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Climate and social justice advocates have long worked to connect the dots between flows of big money and the main players propping up the fossil fuel economy. As the climate movement pulls at the threads of old power structures, it’s found that the villains of the climate crisis are a …
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Mike Bloomberg is finally being vetted as a presidential candidate. It took years-old audio tweeted by a journalist, not attack ads released by his feckless Democratic competitors, to make it happen. But it’s long overdue. Podcast host Benjamin Dixon released previously obscure audio on Monday from a Bloomberg speaking engagement …
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1. The candidate references Tom Brady. 2. The candidate drops the name of a local eatery (“So, I was eating the Hash Benny at the Red Arrow the other day…”). 3. Reporters (in vain) scan the crowd for African-American faces. 4. Reporters ask each other what “the ethanol of New Hampshire” is. 5. The phrase “right here in …
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On Wednesday, as it became clear that by day’s end he would become the third president in U.S. history to be impeached, Trump took to Twitter to call upon Americans to “Say a PRAYER!” His assumption, of course, was that if one were the praying type, then one would naturally …
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