Dave Zirin

Dave Zirin The Knicks shouldn’t let their legacy include genuflecting to Donald Trump, one of the most hated figures in the very city printed on their jersey. New Yorkers deserve better. The p...

Jules Boykoff, Dave Zirin Bazunu's decision raises the perennial question: Why is a country that is currently committing a genocide allowed to compete in the first place? The post Irish Goalke...

Dave Zirin The rapper has been dumped from Ed Sheeran’s tour for saying “free Palestine.” That’s a disgrace. The post Justice for Macklemore appeared first on The Nation.

Dave Zirin Critics say the Black Lives Matter movement in sports went too far. In reality, it didn’t go far enough, and the backlash to it has been brutal. The post We Can’t Let the Kaepernick...

Dave Zirin I once thought the protests of athletes after George Floyd murder would launch a new era of sports activism. Ten years after Kaepernick first kneeled, I revisit what I wrote. The po...

Dave Zirin The trans women in sports panic is nothing but a stalking horse for permitting violence against trans people—and we should celebrate players like Natasha Cloud who say so. The post ...

Dave Zirin These private equity vampires will just keep strip mining the things that give us joy if we let them. The post The Bogus Lakers Sale Is Exactly Why We Need Publicly Owned Sports Tea...

Dave Zirin Zinn saw firsthand what happened when liberals did more to fight the left than the right—they sabotaged their own power. The post Liberals Are Shaming Howard Zinn’s Memory Yet Again...

Dave Zirin, Jules Boykoff Of course fans roundly booed the president at the World Cup final: Damaging the integrity of anything he touches is true to the Trump brand.  The post Trump's Reverse...