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  • The NFL’s Long Game: Do We Thank Injustice for the Change It Creates?

    BY RACHEL BUTLER “If this is a seminal moment for domestic violence and the way we handle it as a society, then that’s not a burden for us to be that poster boy— it’s not. Now, I’m embarrassed about it, but five years from now if things have changed significantly for the better, I’ll be…

  • On the Failures Regarding Ray Rice

    BY CHARLIE THAU Let’s start with the obvious—Ray Rice failed. The act of brutality against his then-fiancée Janay Palmer in an Atlantic City casino elevator was unconscionable and barbaric. Rice failed as a partner, a man, and as a father on the deepest possible level. All of this is obvious to anybody with even a…