A Few Things to Know About Trump’s New Impeachment Lawyers
Former Baylor President Ken Starr waits to run onto the field before an NCAA college football game 2015. LM Otero/AP Ahead of the Senate impeachment trial that will move forward on January 21, President Donald Trump on Friday hired two new additions to his legal team: former Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz and Bill…
Monsters of the 2010s: Sports Institutions That Looked the Other Way
NCAA President Mark EmmertLM Otero/AP The staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the decade’s heroes and monsters. Find them all here. Even as they collected millions upon millions in revenue on the backs of their athletes’ labor, money-making enterprises also known as colleges and universities dropped the ball and failed to account for sexual abuse…
Monsters of the 2010s: Donald Sterling
Armando Arorizo/Zuma The staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the decade’s heroes and monsters. Find them all here. Five years ago, a secret recording of a real estate mogul’s racist remarks erupted around the internet and upended the National Basketball Association. Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling—who paid $2.7 million to settle a housing discrimination lawsuit filed…
Monsters of the 2010s: NFL Owners
MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News/Getty The staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the decade’s heroes and monsters. Find them all here. The National Football League spent the first half of the 2010s covering up a cover-up. The league knew that its on-field product was giving its own employees brain damage, but as the New York Times reported in 2016,…
Heroes of the 2010s: Kain Colter, Jock Revolutionary
John Mersits/Cal Sport Media/ZUMA The staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the decade’s heroes and monsters. Find them all here. By June 2013, when I wrapped up my time at Northwestern, I knew Kain Colter as the school’s star quarterback, wide receiver, and team captain. He’d led the Wildcats to a Gator Bowl victory, the school’s first…
Colin Kaepernick’s Workout Day Was a Total Shitshow, Even by NFL Standards
Colin Kaepernick at the workout Saturday Todd Kirkland/AP Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who became the object of intense conservative criticism for kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality and discrimination against African Americans, was set to hit the field this weekend, with a highly anticipated showcase to pave the way for his…