Новости за 21.06.2021

The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision on Monday that the National Collegiate Athletic Association cannot restrict certain education benefits from student athletes—such as free computers, internships, postgraduate scholarships—doesn’t pose much of a revolutionary threat against the organization’s concept of amateurism in the short term. But give it a few years. The high court’s holding in NCAA v. Alston may very well come to be seen as the beginning of the end of the exploitation of college athletes. Читать дальше...

In mid-April, Rupert Murdoch’s News UK announced that it would be scaling back its plans to launch a new television service in Britain, aimed at serving up right-wing opinion programming in the model of Murdoch’s enormously lucrative, world-historically destructive Fox News. “While there is consumer demand for alternative news provision, the costs of running a rolling news channel are considerable, and it is our assessment that the payback for our shareholders wouldn’t be sufficient,” News UK boss Rebekah Brooks said in a statement. Читать дальше...

After some Republican-leaning bishops condemned John Kerry, the Catholic presidential candidate in 2004, for his support of abortion rights, Senator Ted Kennedy organized an off-the-record meeting of 20 bishops and Catholic senators. He recalled later how genteel his Senate colleagues had been, but the feeling was not mutual. With great earnestness, one bishop said his criticism of the Democrats “had nothing to do with politics,” but rather represented his “concern for your mortal souls!” Kennedy laughed as he opined... Читать дальше...

Do you remember last November, when Arizona’s electoral votes hadn’t yet been called in the presidential election, and pro-Trump forces gathered outside the Maricopa County Recorder’s office? It’s been a while; maybe you’ve forgotten. But Adrian Fontes hasn’t. He was the Maricopa County Recorder.

The queer right to assemble has long existed in tension with the state, and that’s not resolved with the inclusion or exclusion of police at Pride. This ongoing debate was recently stumbled upon by The New York Times, after the Heritage of Pride, the organization that produces official Pride events in the city, announced that police contingents would be banned from the annual parade until 2025. It is not a new debate, and it will hardly be resolved by the paper of record’s editorial board deeming... Читать дальше...