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Politics

What Is My Senator Good For?

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Tom Scocca

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) walks back towards the senate side of the building at the U.S. Capitol on March 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. Tensions have flared over the shutdown within the Democratic caucus after Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced Thursday that he will vote to advance a House-passed six-month government funding bill, despite opposition from many Democrats who argue it would create a "slush fund" for former President Trump and Elon Musk.

Margin Of Error

Chuck Schumer Is Responsible

Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and JD Vance attend the Army-Navy football game on December 14, 2024.

Elon Musk Takes What He Can Get

Lauren Theisen

The Purpose Of A Bathroom Law


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Diana Moskovitz

The Olympic rings are seen outside the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at the opening day of a executive board meeting in Lausanne on March 19, 2024.

Olympics

What Will It Take To Fix SafeSport?

Ten years after the London 2012 Olympics were based here at Stratford, is a landscape of nature that surrounds the original Olympic rings in The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, on 14th June 2022, in London, England. The former main Olympic venue area was controversially re-landscaped from an old industrial estate. Its promised legacy is a green space now known as The Elizabeth Park which remains a wildlife habitat and whose centrepieces are still the Velodrome and Aquatic Centre used by the public while the main Olympic stadium is home to West Ham Football Club. (

Ex-Union Chief Donald Fehr Says Olympic And Paralympic Athletes Need Their Own Type Of Union

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Chris Thompson

Yasir Al-Rumayyan at a Donald Trump-owned golf club.

Golf

Golf’s Emerging Behemoth Might Be Too Big To Exist And Too Rich To Stop

Rafi Schwartz

Overexplained Lists

The 10 Dumbest Congressional Caucuses, Ranked

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Charles P. Pierce

Death To The NCAA

Charlie Baker Is The NCAA’s Attempt To Put The Horses Back In The Barn

This Is So Stupid

Do We Suspect, To Our Horror, That There May Well Be Some Frankenstein Coalition Created From This Impasse, An Abhorrent Manifestation Of House Rule That America Has Never Witnessed And The American People Have Never Authorized?

Dave McKenna

So Whatever Happened With That Dan Snyder Deposition?

Ray Ratto

Who Can Actually Get Rid Of Dan Snyder?

Congress Can’t Even Make A Chump Like Roger Goodell Squirm

Congressional Report Shows Dan Snyder Is Sneakier Than Previously Known, Still Awful

Congress Asks FTC To Investigate If Dan Snyder Acted Like Dan Snyder

Tom Ley

Do We Dare To Dream Of A Dan Snyder Scandal With Actual Consequences?

Olympic gold medal gymnast Jordyn Wieber, Olympic bronze medal gymnast Jamie Dantzcher, speedskater Bridie Farrell and figureskater Craig Maurizi testify before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee's Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance and Data Security Subcommittee during a hearing in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill April 18, 2018 in Washington, DC. The atheleats testified during the hearing titled 'Olympic Abuse: The Role of National Governing Bodies in Protecting Our Athletes.'

Congress Won’t Fund The Commission It Created To Fix Olympic Sports

U.S. gymnasts Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Maggie Nichols and Aly Raisman are sworn in to testify during a Senate Judiciary hearing about the Inspector General's report on the FBI handling of the Larry Nassar investigation of sexual abuse of U.S. gymnasts, on Capitol Hill, September 15, 2021 in Washington, DC.

Gymnastics

Congress Has Little More Than Apologies For Larry Nassar’s Victims

Albert Burneko

US President Joe Biden speaks before signing executive orders related to immigration in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, February 2, 2021. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Bring Forth The Checks

Senator-elect Tommy Tuberville, a Republican from Alabama, stands for a photo at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on November 9, 2020. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds / POOL / AFP) (Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

It Took Tommy Tuberville Four Days To Prove Himself One Of America’s Worst Senators

Patrick Redford

Media Meltdowns

Jason Whitlock Made Some Important Points In Front Of Congress Today

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