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Amanda Ruggeri is a multi-award-winning freelance journalist who lives in Switzerland. She writes on topics including science, travel, and sometimes ski racing.

Amanda Ruggeri

Mikaela Shiffrin of United States of America during the flower ceremony of Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Womens Slalom race on January 10, 2023 in Flachau, Austria. (Photo by Hans Peter Lottermoser/SEPA.Media /Getty Images)

Olympics

Mikaela Shiffrin Resets

Hamilton Nolan is a labor reporter at <a href="https://inthesetimes.com/">In These Times.</a>

Hamilton Nolan

The Jaguars celebrate after a fumble returned for a touchdown

Jaguars Junction: Week 18

Emile is a freelance writer, originally from the U.S., now living in Barcelona. He writes about Spanish soccer, namely FC Barcelona, at various outlets, including The Blizzard, <a href="https://urbanpitch.com/author/eavanessian/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Urban Pitch</a>, The Squall, Barça Blaugranes and Beyond the Last Man, and appears regularly on <a href="https://twitter.com/TheBarcelonaPod" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Barcelona Podcast</a> and the Barca Blaugranes podcast. He&#8217;s also previously written about the NBA, most of which can be found at Forum Blue and Gold and <a href="https://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/author/emile-avanessian/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Sports Collectors Daily</a>, or his own site, a living relic of the basketblog era, <a href="https://hardwoodhype.com/the-work" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hardwood Hype</a>.

Emile Avanessian

Soccer

Alexia Putellas’s Documentary Finds Truth In Disaster

You can follow Will on Twitter (<a href="https://twitter.com/Senn_Spud" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@Senn_Spud</a>), Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/will_sennett/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@will_sennett</a>), and TikTok (<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@will_sennett" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@will_sennett</a>). You can listen to his podcast, <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-closer-look-podcast/id1561306479" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">A Closer Look</a>, wherever you get your podcasts.

Will Sennett

Jamboroo

Hell Is Marvin Lewis: An Open Letter To Zac Taylor

Lam Thuy Vo is a journalist who marries data analysis with on-the-ground reporting to examine how systems and policies affect individuals. She is currently a <a href="https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/soros-justice-fellowships" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Soros Justice Fellow</a>, a <a href="https://www.typeinvestigations.org/blog/2021/06/14/announcing-the-2021-ida-b-wells-fellows/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Type Investigations Ida B. Wells Fellow</a>, and a <a href="https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/2021/03/lam-thuy-vo-named-to-new-role-to-strengthen-data-journalism-curriculum/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">data-journalist-in-residence at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism</a>. Previously, she worked for BuzzFeed News, The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera America and NPR&#8217;s Planet Money.

Lam Thuy Vo

A copy of Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing at the Brooklyn Public Library. Access to Gyasi's book was recently restricted at a high school in Nixa, Missouri.

Politics

When Adults Banned Their Books, These Teens Fought Back By Organizing

Ashley Feinberg

Funbag

Trump Vs. DeSantis: Who Ya Got?!

Two boxing gloves on a red floor background, with deep shadows. The gloves are black, and laid at the wrists atop each other. The left glove has 1-2 on it. The right glove has 2-4 on it. This is painted on with stencils in red ink.

The Fights

On Punches

A founding member of the Billings, Montana-to-Brooklyn sportswriting pipeline, Patrick Sauer has written for many large digital publications you’ve heard of and even more smaller ones that no longer exist. He’s on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/pjsauer" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@pjsauer</a>.

Patrick Sauer

Music

The Legend Of Run-DMC’s Immortal “Christmas In Hollis,” As Remembered By The People Who Made It

Nicholas Russell is a writer from Las Vegas.

Nicholas Russell

Hey It's That Guy

Sean Harris Leans Into The Pain Of Being A Creep

<a href="https://twitter.com/petesegall?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Pete Segall</a> lives in Chicago. His fiction has appeared in The Bennington Review, Conjunctions, The Drift, and elsewhere.

Pete Segall

The eponymous hospital in Lars Von Trier's supernatural soap "Kingdom"

Arts And Culture

After Two Decades Of Chaos, Lars Von Trier’s Supernatural Soap Opera ‘Kingdom’ Returns

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