Posted on August 29, 2008
Dave Zirin: not your average sports fan.
By Pete Redington
It’s easy to see sports today as nothing more than an escapist distraction, an uncomfortable marriage of commercialism and entertainment. But progressive journalist and rabid sports fan Dave Zirin has a different take. Sports, he shows us, can be, and always have been a stage of social conflict, too.
Zirin “tackles” the notion shared by many left-wingers like author Noam Chomsky, who once observed that “sports keeps people from worrying about things that… more
In March 2007, Al Gore triumphantly returned to the Senate to testify before the Environmental Committee about the imperative of acting to stop global warming. It was mostly a calm and cordial affair until… more
Globally, 1 billion overweight people coexist with 800 million starving people.
That's one of many perverse facts in Stuffed & Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System (Melville House, April 2008, U.S.… more
Combining irreverent humor and acerbic critique, a handful of new media outlets -- including The Onion -- are transforming American politics and culture, writes Theodoe Hamm, in his new book The New Blue Media. After 9/11, The Onion stopped its presses for one week. The hiatus allowed the paper to show its respect for the gravity of what had happened in lower Manhattan. But it also enabled its… more
InTheseTimes.com reader MargBass eloquently responds to David Sirota's latest column:
David,
I’ve lived in Denver at times. Not unusual for a Wyomingite who considers Denver closer... more
So there's a meme going around that it might not be smart for the Obama campaign to attack the inexperience of GOP VP nominee Sarah Palin,... more
By choosing Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, McCain is placing a pretty transparent bet to win over shell-shocked Hillary supporters. But the central... more
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Viewpoint
 By David Sirota
When I first heard about the Democratic convention coming to my hometown of Denver, I wasn’t all that excited. For many reasons, in fact, I… more
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In August 1968, the most wrongheaded war in American history was being executed badly and brutally in distant Southeast Asia.
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