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MAGA Absolutely Cannot Let Bad Bunny Go 

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It has now been several very long days since the Super Bowl and Bad Bunny’s raucous, joyous, extremely popular halftime show, stuffed with celebrities, heartfelt tributes to Puerto Rico and Latino culture, and a pointed listing of most countries in the Americas. Meanwhile, as one cannot help but be aware, at the same time on […]

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Here’s the Thing About Bad Bunny’s Light Poles

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While watching Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday, you may have noticed the artist climbing electrical poles with other performers while singing “El Apagón.” The song comes from the artist’s fifth studio album Un Verano Sin Ti, the most-streamed album globally on Spotify back in 2022. The album, which translates to A Summer […]

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The Right Is Terrified of Bad Bunny

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Bad Bunny, the “King of Latin Trap,” will perform the halftime show at the Super Bowl, promising a “huge party.” But his opposition to the Trump administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) crackdown has led MAGA politicos and media stars to spread rumors in an effort to stoke a backlash against the artist. Let’s take […]

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JD Vance Booed at Winter Olympics Amid Anti-ICE Protests

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Vice President JD Vance, standing alongside Second Lady Usha Vance, was met with a chorus of boos at Friday’s Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Milan. As team USA entered San Siro Stadium, the crowd cheered—but that was cut short when the Vances came on the big screen.  As the New York Times reported, “Their appearance […]

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Bad Bunny, Billionaires, and the Business of Sports

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From financial scandals to transgender rights, DEI, and Bad Bunny performing in this weekend’s Super Bowl, there’s no shortage of sports stories to tell. However, investigative sports journalism is a shell of its former self. That’s where Pablo Torre comes in. A longtime sports journalist and now host of the podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out, […]

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In a Warming World, Winter Olympics Organizers Will Have to Adapt

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With an icy white sheet still blanketing much of the Eastern United States after an intense storm this week, it’s hard to imagine a future with less snow at this time of year.  But over time, climate change has decreased snowpack by as […]

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How Sports Became a Battleground Over Trans Rights

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During an NCAA women’s swimming championship in March 2022, two seniors tied for fifth place. The race was unremarkable except for one fact: One of the swimmers, Lia Thomas, was a transgender woman. The swimmer she tied with, Riley Gaines, believed the NCAA never should have allowed her to participate. The matchup, and Gaines’ subsequent […]

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SCOTUS Appears Poised to Uphold State Bans on Trans Student Athletes

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It’s really about whether the court will uphold trans people’s equal opportunity in public life, says an LGBTQ advocate.

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Supreme Court Battle Over Trans Athletes Is About So Much More Than Sports

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On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear a pair of cases brought by a transgender girl in West Virginia and a transgender woman in Idaho who argue they should be able to play on women’s school sports teams. On the surface, the cases invoke headline-grabbing controversies over the fairness of transgender women and girls competing […]

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Monster of 2025: US Soccer Commentator Alexi Lalas

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The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. This is a non-exhaustive and totally subjective list, giving our reporters a chance to write about something that brought joy, discontent, or curiosity. Happy holidays. Viewers tuning in to Fox Sports to watch this summer’s North America–hosted World Cup will find […]

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Trump Just Announced His Own Hunger Games

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It’s not a secret that Donald Trump has taken inspiration from several famous authoritarians of both the past and the present. Vladimir Putin, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, and Xi Jinping, all of whom the president has openly praised, have shaped Trump’s leadership style in one way or another. But I really didn’t think that The Hunger […]

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This Young Soccer Squad Has Never Faced a Rival Like Donald Trump

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When I first encountered 21-year-old Dilan Pinzón back in April, he was sitting on the sidelines of a soccer field in Oakland, California, clad in cleats and a blue jersey, pondering his team’s fate. It was the third game of the season for Soccer Without Borders Academy, which hadn’t won a single match it played […]

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