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NFL Head Injuries Are Part of the Product
September 20, 2024
The league creates spectacles that distract from the dangers—but that doesn’t mean they’re not there.
Police Violence, Tyreek Hill, and the NFL Owners Who Bankroll Brutality
September 9, 2024
The NFL does not cross the police. The NFL partners with the police.
The Dark Side of the Democratic Party’s Embrace of Football
August 26, 2024
The hypermasculinity and violence of football connects to Kamala Harris’s bellicose convention speech. It could repel young voters.
What Was the Paris Olympics?
August 15, 2024
The Olympic Games supercharge the problems that already exist in a host city. We saw that in Paris—but what will happen in LA?
The Man Using Sports to Fight Israeli War Crimes
August 13, 2024
Jibril Rajoub, the head of the Palestine Olympic Committee, says sports can be a nonviolent tool to resist occupation.
The Paris Olympics Has Launched a War on the Poor
August 9, 2024
Paris will almost certainly be remembered as a successful Olympic site. Such recollections, however, will leave out those who suffered under its weight.
We Must Defend Imane Khelif
August 5, 2024
Transphobia also hurts cisgender women like the Algerian boxer Imane Khelif who don’t conform to a narrow, Eurocentric vision of womanhood.
Meet Fadi Deeb: Gaza’s Paralympian Is Showing the World That Palestine Still Lives
August 2, 2024
The shot-putter is the only competitor in the Palestinian Olympic delegation from Gaza.
The Olympics Have Turned Paris Into a Panopticon
July 31, 2024
The omnipresent high-tech surveillance introduced for the Games normalizes incursions on civil liberties.
The Toll of the Olympics on the Environment
July 30, 2024
Paris promised a green Olympic Games, but is that even possible?
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