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The left also must examine its own role in enabling Trumpism to take hold.
Forum | Opinion

The left also must examine its own role in enabling Trumpism to take hold.

  • Jeff Faux
  • Mar 27, 2025

Donald Trump is already overreaching, and Democrats may well rebound in the next election merely by default. But behind the megalomania of Tru…

It’s time for the Democratic Party to abandon staid resistance to Trumpism and get ready to fight.
Forum | Opinion

It’s time for the Democratic Party to abandon staid resistance to Trumpism and get ready to fight.

  • Elie Mystal
  • Jan 2, 2025

No more deals. No more games. No more parliamentarian parlor tricks designed to dull the roughest edges of Donald Trump’s unconscionable polic…

Forum | Opinion

An openly gay high school football star is a symbol of an evolution in sports culture.

  • Dave Zirin
  • Mar 16, 2017

“It can put a target on my back. But whatever.” So said My-King Johnson, Tempe High School football star, incoming freshman at the University …

Forum | Opinion

Here’s why athletes shouldn’t visit the Trump White House.

  • Dave Zirin
  • Jan 12, 2017

One of my favorite sports trivia questions is, “Who was the first president to greet a professional sports team at the White House?” Most peop…

The latest critic of politically courageous quarterback Colin Kaepernick is Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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The latest critic of politically courageous quarterback Colin Kaepernick is Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

  • Dave Zirin
  • Oct 20, 2016

There is perhaps no liberal in the land held in higher esteem than Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “The Notorious RBG” is the first…

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France has a strange concept of feminism.

  • Katha Pollitt
  • Sep 1, 2016

Oh, France, what is the matter with you? In the wake of the Bastille Day massacre of 84 by a Tunisian truck driver who plowed through a crowd …

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"Ground” in “stand your ground” means any place a white person is nervous.

  • Patricia J. Williams
  • Aug 18, 2016

He looked dangerous. He looked like a suspect. He looked like he was reaching for a weapon. The officer feared for his life…

Undocumented immigrants can’t vote, but they're still a political force.
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Undocumented immigrants can’t vote, but they're still a political force.

  • Michelle Chen
  • Aug 11, 2016

If you listen to Donald Trump, you’d think that undocumented immigrants were coming over the border to not only “take our jobs,” but also to s…

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How Rio fell from global grace after becoming host to the Summer Olympics.

  • Dave Zirin
  • Aug 4, 2016

This week I travel to Rio for the 2016 Summer Olympics. The purpose is to report on the last round in what has been…

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Fear of others drove the Brexit vote—and it could happen here.

  • D.D. Guttenplan
  • Jun 30, 2016

At the security check at JFK Airport in New York, I inadvertently got between a German man and his wife. “You go ahead,” I told him… 

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