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The Secret Origins of Marvel | Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
Disney has released a new documentary which myself and many others have criticized for regurgitating a mythical version of history that extolls Stan …
2 years, 9 months ago
Trump’s Trials, plus Barbie and Oppie | Start Making Sense
This month, Donald Trump will be facing four indictments in four different jurisdictions at the same time, each for multiple felonies. Yet, Republica…
2 years, 9 months ago
Finding the Balance | Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal
Beyond raw court expansion, or the (probably unconstitutional) big stick of forced term-limits, there are a number of other ways one might go about b…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Case For Abolishing Harvard | Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
It’s no secret that the rich have an outsized role in Ivy League colleges, both as students and alumni. But a new study, by a group of Harvard-based …
2 years, 10 months ago
What Happened to Black Activism in Professional Sports? | Edge of Sports
The growth of the Black Lives Matter movement through the 2010s catalyzed a resurgence of Black activism in professional sports that had its climax i…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Class Struggle This Summer | Start Making Sense
The Teamsters reached a historic agreement for UPS workers this week, protecting and rewarding more than 340,000 UPS Teamsters nationwide. We had bee…
2 years, 10 months ago
Reform the Media | Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal
The court ended its most recent term completely off the chain. Having already killed reproductive rights, it accomplished another longstanding conser…
2 years, 10 months ago
Young Americans for Freedom Hates Freedom | Time of Monsters
There’s an old joke that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor even an empire. The right-wing student group Young Americans for Free…
2 years, 10 months ago
150 Years of Black Activism In Sports | Edge of Sports
The central place of sports in American life lends immense influence to athletes to shift the culture of the country—and for more than 150 years, Bla…
2 years, 10 months ago
The War on Black Studies, plus Hollywood on Strike | Start Making Sense
Remember how the state of Florida banned the African-American studies curriculum proposed by the College Board on the grounds that it might cause gui…
2 years, 10 months ago