NBC NewsBiographies A&E's 'Biography: WWE Legends' never pins down the truth about professional wrestling NBC News - By Jeb Lund, politics and culture criticThe league has always been great creating a narrative but less good at maintaining it, preferring to hope fans will ignore its many contradictions. Understanding American pro wrestling has always been...
NBC NewsHBO In HBO Max's 'Mare of Easttown,' Kate Winslet's detective has to solve a crime and fix her life NBC News - By Ani Bundel, cultural criticLike many 40-somethings, the best day of the titular Mare's life already happened. She's been trying figure out what makes the other days since worthwhile. “Mare of Easttown” picks up the formula of HBO’s...
NBC NewsSleep Covid quarantine confirmed that sleeping in separate beds is the best thing for my marriage NBC News - By Judi Ketteler, author of “Would I Lie to You? The Amazing Power of Being Honest in a World That Lies"In movies and shows, sleeping apart is represented as a sign of trouble in a relationship. I used to bristle and take these scenes personally. Now I just laugh. I don’t remember the first night my husband...
NBC NewsNorth Korea How Biden nominee Wendy Sherman can pull off a deal with North Korea where others failed NBC News - By Christine Ahn, founder and executive director, Women Cross DMZThe newly confirmed deputy secretary of state clearly understands where the stick-and-carrot approach of the last 20 years of U.S. diplomacy went wrong. Having finally been confirmed as the next U.S. secretary...
NBC NewsAirlines My post-Covid family reunion wasn't what I expected. But it was so much of what I needed. NBC News - By Andrew Evans, travel writer and author, "The Black Penguin"Before this lost year, flying to see my extended family was just another trip. This time, it was full of many reminders of what we had all missed out on. I keep feeling the last, lost year. I felt it my...
NBC NewsRoyal Families Debby Waldman Prince Philip's funeral Saturday honors a man who played a supporting role with grace NBC News - By Debby Waldman, family, lifestyle and health writerI had gone to see the queen during her tour of my city. I never expected to find her husband standing in front of me, looking down at my daughter with a big smile. If I ever doubted the conventional wisdom...
NBC NewsUFOs The U.S. military takes UFOs seriously. Why doesn't Silicon Valley or academia? NBC News - By Rizwan Virk, founder of Play Labs @ MITThe government wants to know if these unidentified objects pose a military threat. But they also represent an opportunity to advance science and technology. In our era of life-changing innovation, there...
NBC NewsPolicing Adam Toledo was shot on video with his hands in the air. Chicago's police have to be stopped. NBC News - By Mikki Kendall, author, “Hood Feminism” and "Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists"The department has a history of violence against the people it should protect. Now the world can see what Chicagoans have long known about our city. Adam Toledo should still be alive. But he is not, because...
NBC NewsDeath of George Floyd Dr. Ryan Marino Chauvin trial defense rests — after smearing George Floyd with false overdose theory NBC News - By Dr. Ryan Marino, emergency physician and medical toxicologistWe cannot allow racist, breathless myths about drugs distract us from the actual facts. “I can’t breathe.” Those were the last words — called out repeatedly — by George Floyd, whose death in the custody...
NBC NewsBernie Madoff Bernie Madoff died in prison, where he belonged. So how do you mourn him? NBC News - By Steve Rabinowitz, president and founder of Bluelight StrategiesIt’s wrong, no doubt, to take pleasure in a man’s death. And yet it’s difficult to feel sorrow for a man who has been the cause of so much suffering. When I heard of Bernie Madoff’s death Wednesday in...
NBC NewsVladimir Putin Biden's Russia sanctions are a good step. Here's what else we should do to stand up to Putin. NBC News - By David A. Andelman, executive director of The RedLines ProjectThe West needs to take bold actions — the most consequential of which would be inviting Ukraine to join NATO. Russian President Vladimir Putin is sending a message. By massing 40,000 troops near the border...
NBC NewsIce Hockey MLB must get more players vaccinated or the playoffs will come down to Covid, not the game NBC News - By Cecil Harris, sports journalist and authorBaseball isn't alone among pro sports leagues in feeling the effects of re-opening and a too-low vaccination rate. But that doesn't make it right. Just two weeks into the Major League Baseball season,...
NBC NewsColton Underwood Colton Underwood's coming out shows 'The Bachelor' must scrap its outdated dating model NBC News - We apologize, this video has expired.Between Underwood's reveal and the racism displayed during Matt James' season, it's time to completely overhaul the show and ditch its toxic tropes. Colton Underwood, the erstwhile fence jumper of "The...
NBC NewsJohnson & Johnson Andi Zeisler I got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine on Monday and took a selfie. Things got weird after that. NBC News - By Andi Zeisler, cofounder of Bitch Media and author, "We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement"The pause on Tuesday had strangers hyping my supposedly inevitable demise. But victim-blaming is just a response to those people's perceived vulnerability. On Monday morning, I got vaccinated in Washington...
NBC NewsChina Covid-19's origins remain unknown. Holding China and the WHO accountable is necessary. NBC News - By Craig Singleton, former U.S. diplomat, and Mark Dubowitz, CEO of the Foundation for Defense of DemocraciesThe U.S. should push the WHO to establish global health sanctions that could be levied to compel compliance from countries during a health crisis. U.S. intelligence officials acknowledged Wednesday that...
NBC NewsHealth The Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine pause is good for science but rough for public trust NBC News - By Yuliya Shneyderman, associate professor, Health Education Department, Borough of Manhattan Community CollegeIn a perfect world, putting the one-dose vaccine on hold to assess the six cases of blood clots would make people feel safer. This isn't a perfect world. We are currently seeing — or, at least, until week,...
NBC NewsPolicing Matthew Guariglia Virginia police, Army Lt. Caron Nazario and America's bloody traffic stop Catch-22 NBC News - By Matthew GuarigliaThe system as it exists makes it almost impossible for Black and brown Americans to avoid harm. On the night of Dec. 5, a familiar scene unfolded at a gas station in Windsor, Virginia. Police pulled over...
NBC NewsU.S. Politics Trump could gain from Biden's decision to delay withdrawing from Afghanistan NBC News - By Richard Hanania, research fellow at Defense PrioritiesThe choice is likely between leaving Afghanistan peacefully in May or again putting American forces under fire — making a withdrawal much harder. President Joe Biden is reportedly set to announce that...
NBC NewsRace & Ethnicity 'White Lives Matter' protests are failing across America. Here's one big reason why. NBC News - By Nandini Jammi, co-founder of Check My Ads and Sleeping GiantsFor tech activists like me who volunteer to track and get white supremacists removed from tech services, the failure of these rallies is the unsurprising result of lots of work. "White Lives Matter" rallies...
NBC NewsJohn Boehner Max Burns John Boehner blames Trump and Cruz for Republican dysfunction. But he's the problem. NBC News - By Max Burns, Democratic strategistHis reinvention as a laid-back marijuana entrepreneur, eye-rolling along with us as the GOP implodes, erases his leading role in this sad state of affairs. Whatever the official genre of former House John...
NBC NewsTucker Carlson Fox News star Tucker Carlson's 'great replacement' segment used a new frame for an old fear NBC News - By Casey Michel, author of "American Kleptocracy"There are still plenty of Americans seeking confirmation that their rank nativism is right. For the past few years, white nationalists around the world have been workshopping a new framing for a much fear....
NBC NewsTrump University Trump blasts Republican leaders and Fauci. His bitterness will keep him out of the White House. NBC News - By Susan Del Percio, Republican strategistThe former president will never move beyond 2020, which is why he has no future when it comes to 2024. In four years, the Republican Party lost control of the White House, the Senate and the House of The...
NBC NewsPro Wrestling At WWE's WrestleMania 37, Bad Bunny fought for his honor in the ring — and Puerto Ricans' NBC News - By Susanne Ramírez de Arellano, journalist and cultural criticThe Puerto Rican musical star and WWE superfan didn't just do well in his first pro wrestling match. He made it worth watching for non-wrestling fans. Puerto Rican musical superstar Bad Bunny made a surprising...
NBC NewsBritish Royal Family Queen Elizabeth has lost Prince Philip. The monarchy needs a new modernizer. NBC News - By James Rodgers, associate professor of international journalism at City University of LondonBuckingham Palace has struggled with Prince Harry and Meghan's unconventional choices. The royal family must embrace change as Philip once did. For more than seven decades, Prince Philip had been, in Elizabeth...
NBC NewsU.S. Politics Fred Wertheimer Manchin's filibuster defense contradicts the Senate legacy he claims to protect NBC News - By Fred Wertheimer, founder and president of Democracy 21The senator from West Virginia says he sees himself as a defender of the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd. If we review Byrd's legacy, however, it's clear Manchin is not doing that. Joe Manchin of West Virginia...
NBC NewsVaccination Julian Sanchez Vaccine 'passports' could be useful — but only if government gets out of the way NBC News - By Julian Sanchez, senior fellow, Cato InstituteGovernments need not issue or require them; they don't for most vaccinations. But banning them burdens companies trying to make smart decisions. With nearly 25 percent of Americans having been fully vaccinated,...
NBC NewsComic Books HBO's 'The Nevers' asks us to imagine power differently — and mostly delivers NBC News - By Noah Berlatsky, cultural criticThis is a great concept for a show. Unfortunately, “The Nevers” is so crowded with plot and intrigue that it has some trouble getting to the point. HBO’s new sweeping sort-of steampunk, sort-of superhero...
NBC NewsDMX DMX was talented and imperfect, an antihero and an icon. He was one of us. NBC News - By Mikki Kendall, author, “Hood Feminism” and "Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists"The untimely death of the musician and actor hurts because he made many of us feel hope when that was difficult. And now he's gone. Earl “DMX” Simmons had an honesty about his heartache and his anger endeared...
NBC NewsMilitary Nicola Johnson Daddy is a doctor, mommy is an arms dealer: How I explain my job to my children NBC News - By Nicola Johnson, former senior policy advisor and program director for the Department of DefenseMy family and friends think I’m some kind of secret agent. I did once have a back-alley transaction in a former Soviet republic, but it revolved around a breast pump. With “Baby Shark” setting the mood...
