The president has inadvertently made Colin Kaepernick a martyr to millions of Americans.
New England Patriots
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Americans Should Have Given Up on Pro Football Long Before Colin Kaepernick Saga
“It’s about time.” That was my reaction to the great Boston Globe columnist Renee Graham’s recent declaration that she would no longer watch the National Football League in the aftermath of the screwjob the league has apparently pulled on Colin Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers star who’s being treated like a 1950s Hollywood screenwriter […]
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The Fourth Estate Has an Obligation to Question Trump’s Motives in Syria
Last week, after the Washington Post published a bizarre story suggesting that the Trump administration had come around to supporting both a federal value-added tax and a carbon tax, Kevin Drum labeled the story bullpucky: Sure they are. This sounds more like a strategic leak to demonstrate “seriousness” on Trump’s part than anything that’s really […]
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Sports Journalism and Politics
The cultural gulf between professional athletes and sports fans is growing.
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The Mis-Education of America (or, How Trump Won the Big Game)
It is altogether fitting that the United States Senate rammed through Betsy DeVos’s confirmation as Secretary of Education at the same time thousands of fervent football fans were attending the New England Patriots victory parade in Boston. Perhaps if this country paid less attention to overpaid sports “heroes” and more attention to this country’s political […]
