US Soccer Doesn’t Need a Big, Orange Thumb on the Scale
Three phone calls and one mysteriously cancelled red card later, we’ll never know if we could have won fairly.
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admin In Defense of Taylor Swift’s Bad Taste
The superstar’s unabashed embrace of her corniness is refreshing in an age of “cool bride” sameness and AI-engineered taste buds.
Wall Street Just Won’t Stop Financing the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Expansion
Major lenders are all in as Big Oil pivots toward plastics, pesticides, and other petrochemicals.
“Morally reprehensible”: Prediction Markets Offer Bets on Wildfires
What could possibly go wrong?
Celebrating America Doesn’t Have to Mean Erasing Our History
How historians, academics and creatives shifted my perspective on the semiquincentennial
The Army Took Down Its Page Commemorating a Civil Rights Icon
A piece honoring Black veteran Sarah Keys Evans has been axed to “align with current guidance.”
Why America at 250 Still Cannot Face Slavery
Host Al Letson visits Bryan Stevenson’s Montgomery, Alabama, memorials confronting slavery’s legacy as the US turns 250.
The Federal Government Has Made America 250 a Spectacle. These States Want It to Be a Moment for Reflection.
More than any fireworks show, communities around the country want to see themselves reflected in the story of our first…
America is 250 Years Old. Have You Ever Read the Declaration of Independence?
We’ll make it easy for you.
I Talked to Trump Supporters About Cuts to the Train… on the Train
And spoke with those who want to invoke the 25th Amendment.