From A Left Wing

I wrote From a Left Wing from December 2007 until July 2013. For much of that time, I averaged one post a week; some years I wrote more tha...

The people taking to the streets in Brazil are demonstrating the only right and true response to the militarized boondoggle of international...

Moira Lovell, "John and Precious" from Stand Your Ground Doncaster Rover Belles players and their coach The unfairness of dis...

I've long wanted to write about Justina Cassavell. My sister has been the cross-country coach at Voorhees High School in New Jersey sinc...

The (not-homophobic side of the) sports world has invested a lot of magic in the currently-professional-and-playing-out-gay-male-athlete. I...

NBA center  Jason Collins came out in this week's issue of  Sports Illustrated . People are celebrating him as the first man in a "...

The bombing at the Boston Marathon - what is there to say about such a thing? Already, barely a day into the story the s...

It's not every day that I think, of a player like Kobe Bryant, "I know how he feels." A few days ago Bryant ruptured his Achil...

From Jo Strømgren Kompani - on stage in Toron to this week . I must see this.  

Rutgers's biggest problem is not Mike Rice. It's politicians digging into the university's infrastructure - taking the...

In a recent polemic Dave Zirin asks if "jock culture" is to be blamed for the  Steubenville case . Responding to evidence that ...