For decades, wealthy owners and financiers have gotten cities to pay for their sports stadiums. It’s not so easy anymore.
Sports
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Big Business Has Come for Your Baseball Cards
Fanatics, the self-described Amazon of sports, has used long-term exclusive deals to monopolize apparel and memorabilia markets, and make its products unavoidable.
Posted inThe Good Life
Why We Should Care About Low-Carbon Leisure
Investments in tangible spaces for leisure can increase connection and fun activities while reducing carbon emissions.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Best of 2023: Ramenda Cyrus
Our John Lewis Writing Fellow offers her favorites from this year.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Glenn and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Washington fought off the pandemic, but can the city get over the gall of a billionaire sports mogul and a governor moving D.C. teams across the Potomac?
Posted inTAP
The Farce of Big-Time College Sports
Today on TAP: One more face of the creeping commercialism of higher education
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
A Black Football Player Reclaims His Story
A book and hit movie depicted Michael Oher as a Black kid saved by adoptive white parents. Oher says that’s not the real story.
Posted inAmerica and the World
The Saudi Sports Grab Is a Humanitarian Disaster
Saudi Arabia’s soccer revolution risks perpetrating a similar labor crisis as seen in Qatar during the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Posted inBooks
Clinton’s Backwash
To make sense of Ron DeSantis, who trolls a liberal elite that has not faced its own failures, a former teammate reflects on their time playing baseball at Yale in the 1990s.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Public Subsidies to Sports Stadiums Aren’t Going Away
A Tempe, Arizona, vote showed cities can decline to fund millionaires’ arenas—but some municipalities still shower wealthy teams with taxpayer dollars.