Today on TAP: The president’s losing game
Sports
Posted inLaw and Justice
The NBA’s Quiet Problem With Prison Exploitation
Tom Gores, owner of the Detroit Pistons, also owns notoriously abusive prison telecom and banking giant Aventiv.
Posted inLaw and Justice
NBA Partner AT&T Is No Friend of Black Lives Matter
Through donations to police foundations and partnerships with law enforcement groups, AT&T helps the police further militarize and execute the War on Drugs.
Posted inCoronavirus
Did the Military World Games Spread COVID-19?
The October 2019 event, held in Wuhan, China, appears to have been a vector for spreading disease in the U.S. and around the world.
Posted inCoronavirus
The Great American Pastime: Squeezing Workers
At all levels, baseball owners are using the COVID-19 crisis to force long-desired concessions on everyone involved with the sport.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Playing Games With College Athletes’ Lives
A premature return to college football during the COVID-19 pandemic will irresponsibly sacrifice the health of college athletes.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
From ‘We, the People’ to the Power of People Magazine
This year’s presidential campaigns demonstrate the steadily increasing integration of political figures into pop culture, and vice versa.
Posted inTAP
Bread, Circuses, the Super Bowl, and Fascism
Today on TAP: The distractions of mass culture
Posted inTAP
Victory Through Cheating
Today on TAP: Do Republican senators think presidential elections are as important as baseball?
