Tens of millions of Americans, most of them men, tune in to sports talk radio. Is sports talk a haven for old-school guy talk, including misogyny and gay-bashing? For the final episode in our series…
Two families, both making big investments of time and money to involve their kids in sports. But the investments they’re able to make are very different. In Part 5 of “Contested,” our series on sports,…
Tal Ben-Artzi didn’t worry about being an out bisexual athlete at Penn State. Maybe she would have if she’d known the school’s history. How much have times changed? In Part 4 of “Contested,” our series…
Two small towns, one in Idaho, the other in Upstate New York, try to decide whether to change the nickname of their high school sports teams: The Redskins. Photo: Emblem in the main foyer at…
More from suburban St. Louis, post-Ferguson, on the popular notion that sports unites communities. Can the camaraderie of a team sport make race and class status “disappear” for the kids involved or their parents? Scene…
Can a winning baseball team bring St. Louis together post-Ferguson? John Biewen investigates in the inaugural episode of Scene On Radio, a new podcast of audio stories from the Center for Documentary Studies…
Normal could well mean the end of global civilization as we know it. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/25/opinion/new-normal-climate-catastrophes.html?smid=tw-share
@Zigzip73 @mattyglesias The United Kingdom has a House with 650 members for a population of 67 million. (103,000/member) The US has a House with 435 members for a population of 322 million (740,000/member) with state borders further distorting allocation of seats.
Hmm. Approximately 74 million?
Just finished @Isabelwilkerson ‘s book “Caste: The origins of discontent”
So good ❤️
This question continues to haunt me: “If people were given the choice between democracy and whiteness, how many would choose whiteness?”
Pretty sure a lot of our listeners would appreciate this year-long podcast series,The American Project, which in a way picked up where our "Seeing White" left off and went deep on reparations. From @OshaDavidson with @SandyDarity and others. Check it out: http://www.theamericanproject.us
Our final episode of season one is now out: Callie House organized for Ex-slave pensions in the 19th Century. Others picked up the fight for reparations through the 20th Century and now into the 21st. Listen at http://TheAmericanProject.us or wherever you get your podcasts.
Here it is made explicit. Rand Paul: Please go back to playing the stupidest version of “objectivity.” He said vs. he said, who can know?
Stephanopolous: Actually here’s what we know.
Paul: Not fair!
"George, where you make a mistake, people coming from the liberal side like you, you immediately say everything is a lie, instead of saying there are two sides to everything" -- Rand Paul is still pushing The Big Lie
