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<title><![CDATA[Dave Zirin - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15437.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Dave Zirin]]></description><category domain="15437">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Bigoted Stunts Have Nothing to Do With Protecting Women]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/society/enes-kanter-freedoms-natasha-cloud-wnba-trans-players/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Zirin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The trans women in sports panic is nothing but a stalking horse for permitting violence against trans people'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and we should celebrate players like Natasha Cloud who say so.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Trying To Rig the World Cup]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/V1NqG</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Zirin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a decision that should affix an asterix to any US Men'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s World Cup victory going forward, FIFA, the ruling body of international soccer, has decided to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'suspend'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' a red card that a game official issued to the USMNT'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s best player, Folarin Balogun, in the team'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Roberts Court at 20]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/06/the-roberts-court-at-20/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Zirin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For twenty years, the chief justice and his wrecking crew have toppled precedents'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'no wonder the Roberts Court is hemorrhaging public support.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does Washington DC Have a Vichy Mayor?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/does-dc-have-a-vichy-mayor/ar-AA1LWNuF</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Zirin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's still unclear'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and that's the problem.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DC Night Patrols Are Showing Cities How To Fight]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-dc-night-patrols-are-showing-cities-how-to-fight-trump-s-occupation/ar-AA1Lvyv4</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Zirin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With only their cell phones, medical kits, and the confidence to assert their rights, volunteer night patrols follow and record the armed troops who have taken over the capital.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Perils and Absurdities of Trump's DC Occupation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-perils-and-absurdities-of-trump-s-dc-occupation/ar-AA1KBz6f</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Zirin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was 8'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' pm, humid, and I was by myself, across the street from where my kids went to elementary school, banging a large metal spoon against a pot. I was alone, because I had gotten the address wrong for a pots-and-pans demonstration against Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s military occupation of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Time George Foreman Sang Me Some Bob Dylan]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/olympics/the-time-george-foreman-sang-me-some-bob-dylan/ar-AA1Byam2</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Zirin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the passing of the boxing legend, I want to recall an interview I never expected and will never forget'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harris' Quest for the Mythical 'Cheney Democrats']]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/myth-cheney-democrats-harris-walz-campaign/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/myth-cheney-democrats-harris-walz-campaign/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Zirin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Kamala Harris is trying to appeal to centrist Republicans, but what if they don't exist? And what if the search for them leads her to abandon the Democratic base?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Women's 'Cruel' Loss Must Also Be a Wake-Up Call]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/us-women-world-cup-woke-team-usa-loss-megan-rapinoe-rcna98552</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Zirin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you want to understand how the United States women'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s soccer team went from pursuing an unprecedented third consecutive World Cup to losing in the Round of 16 on penalties, don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t look first at the coach Vlatko Andonovski and his bewildering substitutions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[PGA Tour Just Picked Saudi Arabia Over 9/11 Survivors]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/pga-tour-liv-golf-saudi-arabia-rcna88016</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Zirin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The PGA Tour and its commissioner have suddenly decided to ignore all the negative implications that he said would come with working with Saudi Arabia.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bill Russell Was a Revolutionary]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-russell-obituary/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Zirin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The death of the basketball legend at 88 should remind us of his courage off the court.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mickelson Decision an Indictment of Himself &amp; LIV Tour]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/society/golf-pga-saudi-arabia/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Zirin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Phil Mickelson's embrace of Saudi cash is an indictment of both himself and the PGA Tour he flees.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kaepernick's Spirit Lives on Another San Francisco Team]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/colin-kaepernick-s-baton-picked-gabe-kapler-n1295861</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Zirin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Historically, white athletes have been granted more of a pass for this form of protest than Black athletes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NBA Owner's Comments on China Expose the Entire League]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/nba-silence-china-proves-it-s-less-interested-human-rights-n1287663</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Zirin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The NBA has been silent on China's human rights violations, including its treatment of Uyghur Muslims that human rights organizations decry as a genocide.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gwen Berry Is the Hero We Need]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gwen-berry/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Zirin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Olympic hammer thrower is facing attacks similar to those felt by anti-racist educators and activists around the country. And she is not backing down an inch.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Baseball Says No to Jim Crow 2.0]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/society/mlb-all-star-game-georgia/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.thenation.com/article/society/mlb-all-star-game-georgia/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Zirin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Major League Baseball is a conservative institution. It speaks volumes that it moved the All-Star Game from Brian Kemp's Georgia.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ESPN Is Right to Stand Behind Jemele Hill]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/09/15/sports-is-a-hub-for-protests-against-racism-espn-shouldnt-silence-jemele-hill/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Zirin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The evidence for this hasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t exactly been faint to the eye. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not just the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s reticence to criticize'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' torch-wielding Nazis wearing MAGA hats. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the man'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s public life, a 40-year stretch that has spanned from being'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' sued over'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' racial...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Political Fervor Beneath the Super Bowl's Surface]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/political-fervor-thrums-beneath-the-super-bowls-surface/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Zirin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The New England Patriots won the Super Bowl 34-28, in the most gobsmacking, unfathomable comeback in Super Bowl history. Down 28-3, they came all the back to win in overtime.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Colin Kaepernick Is Winning]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/colin-kaepernick-is-winning/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Zirin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The most common response to Colin Kaepernick'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s anthem protest against police violence in the corridors of the sports world has been, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??I support his goal, but not his methods.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ali Was a Powerful, Dangerous Political Force]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-zirin-muhammad-ali-legacy-20160603-snap-story.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-zirin-muhammad-ali-legacy-20160603-snap-story.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Zirin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Muhammad Ali 's saga is without parallel: the champion boxer who was the most famous draft resister in history; a man whose phone was bugged by the Johnson and Nixon administrations yet who later was invited to the White House of Gerald Ford; a prodigal son whom his hometown city council...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mizzou Football Protest a Game Changer in Racism Fight]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/black-mizzou-football-players-are-going-on-strike-over-campus-racism/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.thenation.com/article/black-mizzou-football-players-are-going-on-strike-over-campus-racism/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Zirin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Saturday night, the black players on the University of Missouri'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s football team'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'a team in the national-title hunt just two years ago'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'went on strike against racism. The strike has the potential to cost the Southeastern Conference football program millions of dollars,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Olympic Bravery of Caitlyn Jenner]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/209057/olympic-bravery</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Zirin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Caitlyn Jenner story is one of triumph pulled from the precipice of tragedy. When known to the world as Bruce Jenner, Caitlyn was in her 60s and, as she said in Vanity Fair, found herself facing this thought: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The LGBT Movement Takes Aim at Sochi]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/178053/lgbt-movement-takes-aim-sochi</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.thenation.com/article/178053/lgbt-movement-takes-aim-sochi]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Zirin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It says something about the skittish levels of repression and fear in Russia that nail polish could provoke an international crisis. But that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s what happened at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow last August, when Swedish high jumper Emma Green Tregaro and her teammate, sprinter...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Florida State: The Champions of Racist Mascots]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/blog/177800/florida-state-seminoles-champions-racist-mascoting#</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.thenation.com/blog/177800/florida-state-seminoles-champions-racist-mascoting#]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Zirin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s easy to oppose the name of the Washington Redskins and call for owner Dan Snyder to change his beloved bigoted brand. After all, it'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s a dictionary-defined slur bestowed on the NFL franchise by their arch-segregationist, minstrel-loving founder. When you have Native American...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Did RGIII Learn at Muhammad Ali Center?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/blog/174194/what-did-rgiii-learn-muhammad-ali-center</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.thenation.com/blog/174194/what-did-rgiii-learn-muhammad-ali-center]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Zirin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It should be enough that Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III is the most exciting athlete to enter professional sports since Lionel Messi and has restored the thrill of the possible to our football-obsessed community in Washington, DC. It should be enough at this moment to learn that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Minor League Paulsons]]></title>
							<link>http://www.progressive.org/mag/zirin1208.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Zirin</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Olympic Fists Still Hold Power]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-zirin3-2008aug03,0,7409008.story</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-zirin3-2008aug03,0,7409008.story]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dave Zirin</author>
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