
Is It Okay to Watch Football?
That’s an individual choice. But imposing boycotts from the outside isn’t how politics works.
Dave Zirin is the author most recently of Brazil’s Dance with the Devil: The World Cup, The Olympics, and the Fight for Democracy.
That’s an individual choice. But imposing boycotts from the outside isn’t how politics works.
Colin Kaepernick’s protest is part of a long history of black athletes taking politics to the field.
Muhammad Ali’s resistance to racism and war belongs not only to the 1960s, but the common future of humanity.