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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 …
3 years, 1 month 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…
3 years, 1 month 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…
3 years, 1 month 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…
3 years, 1 month 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…
3 years, 1 month 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…
3 years, 1 month 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…
3 years, 1 month ago
You're Wrong About Term Limits | Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal
Term limits are by far the most popular form of Supreme Court reform. According to a recent poll from the Associated Press, two-thirds of Americans f…
3 years, 1 month ago
Start Making Sense: Cornel West Should Run as a Democrat, plus Supreme Court Wins and Losses
Cornel West is running for president as the Green Party candidate. On this episode of Start Making Sense, editor in chief, D.D. Guttenplan, explains …
3 years, 1 month ago
Edge of Sports: Solomon Hughes on playing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 'Winning Time’
From 1979 to 1991, the Los Angeles Lakers would become a dominant force in the world of professional basketball and in American culture more broadly.…
3 years, 1 month ago