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S1 E6: What Men Talk About When They Talk About Sports (Contested, Part 6 of 6)

  • November 18, 2015
  • Tagged as: Contested, Season 1

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…

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S1 E5: A Level Playing Field? (Contested, Part 5 of 6)

  • November 4, 2015
  • Tagged as: Contested, Season 1

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,…

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S1 E4: An Athlete Inside and Out (Contested, Part 4 of 6)

  • October 21, 2015
  • Tagged as: Contested, Season 1

  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…

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S1 E3: The (High School) Mascot Wars (Contested, Part 3 of 6)

  • October 7, 2015
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  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…

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S1 E2: Friends and Basketball (Contested, Part 2 of 6)

  • September 23, 2015
  • Tagged as: Contested, Season 1

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…

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S1 E1: Sports, the Great Uniter? (Contested, Part 1 of 6)

  • August 26, 2015
  • Tagged as: Contested, Season 1

    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…

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3 Jul

"The Chinese simply can’t believe their luck...

OBBB 'virtually guarantees that China will own the future of solar, wind power and electric cars and trucks, as well as autonomous vehicles'

'And why? Because Rs view those as “liberal” energy sources'

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2 Jul

To be clear, 65 million is the number of Latinos in America, many of whom are citizens. This is beyond standard MAGA xenophobia, it is is a call for ethnic extermination.

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3 Jul

These allegations are horrific. If this was an American prison it would violate the 8th Amendment. This is absolutely cruel and unusual punishment. Nobody should try to rationalize or justify this kind of treatment.

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24 Jun

‘If the risk of a plane crashing was as high as the risk of the Amoc collapsing, none of us would ever fly because they would not let the plane take off. … That we’re still continuing business as usual is mindblowing.’ From @DoctorVive https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/jun/24/tipping-points-climate-crisis-expert-doomerism-wealth

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I just wrote 'Capture the Flag?: Keeping ScOR #9'.

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