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Liberal: The Left Needs a New Playbook “Despite ample opportunity to advance their cause, the left’s 21st century project has failed and failed badly,” argues The Liberal Patriot’s Ruy Teixeira. Yes, “left parties, including the Democratic Party, have succeeded in building strong bases among the educated and professional classes,” thereby capturing “cultural production.” But this prompted these parties, once ... Read more

Sneakerheads often bemoan the lack of authenticity in new kicks. Shoes either suffer from recycled ideas, poor marketing, or outrageous pricing. None of that is the case for Damian Lillard's tenth signature adidas basketball shoe. Earlier this week, the adidas Dame X was unveiled on the same day the Milwaukee Bucks waived Lillard. Even that shocking news cannot slow down the release of Lillard's ... Read more

One Year After Debut, Kerry Carpenter Is Thriving: “He Believed in Himself Before Anyone Else Did.” A year isn’t a long time in baseball. Not when you measure careers in miles traveled, innings pitched, and late-night swings taken in empty cages. But in the case of Kerry Carpenter, a year has been enough to rewrite the story of a player who once hovered on the fringes of the game — unnoticed, unheralded, unproven — and ... Read more

Las Vegas Aces center A'ja Wilson continued her WNBA dominance on Friday night, tallying 30 points and 16 rebounds while leading her team to an 86-83 win over the Phoenix Mercury. Following the contest, Wilson spoke about how, since the All-Star break, she's worked on letting the game come to her instead of trying to force things on the court. In doing so, she used quite the analogy: "It's like forcing a fart, all you ... Read more

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said that the key to his recent successful closed door meeting with President Donald Trump was a shared interest in the cost of living and making the city better. “Too often, when two politicians meet, the conversation rarely extends beyond them,” Mamdani said Sunday at a news conference outside of Union Grove Missionary Baptist Church in the Bronx. “And what we found instead is that this was a ... Read more