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…
140 years ago, European countries carved up Africa – but no African leaders were invited. The result? Countries like The Gambia, where communities are still divided from each other today. Find out how The Gambia got its unusual shape.
Here is your reminder that Rumeysa Ozturk was arrested & jailed for over 6 weeks because she co-authored an op-ed that offended the government. Whatever your politics, that is genuinely dystopian.
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There is almost no food, no water, no medicines, no aid, no life-sustaining goods left in Gaza after 70 days of total blockade—yet Israeli forces continue targeting aid centers.
As Israel inflicts mass starvation on Gaza and now openly plans to carry out ethnic cleansing, the editorial board of the Financial Times has issued a statement saying that the US and Europe “should be ashamed of their silence” and must act to stop Israel’s crimes.
