Is 23andMe's 'Root for Your Roots' World Cup Promotion Racist?
A bioethicist argues that the genetic testing company is fostering pseudoscientific bigotry by urging customers to pick a soccer team based on their ancestry.
A bioethicist argues that the genetic testing company is fostering pseudoscientific bigotry by urging customers to pick a soccer team based on their ancestry.
Sadly, the consequences of sanctions are not limited to the football pitch.
A parade today to celebrate something even the politicians can't spoil. Plus, a bonus World Cup preview!
The president has discovered the power of the pardon. Could that make this a moment for criminal justice reform?
The White House-NFL anthem wars just got dumber, by design.
At 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, the state's three casinos will begin accepting single-game bets.
As medical and recreational marijuana become more widely accepted and legalized, it's not only government agencies that have to deescalate the drug war.
Friday A/V Club: The boxer who just got a posthumous presidential pardon was a central figure in one of the first battles over movie censorship.
Plus: Obamacare premiums rise, Trump praises NFL anthem policy.
Teams will now be fined if their employees don't show sufficient on-field respect during the National Anthem, because we live in a very serious country.
Judging the outcome of this week's SCOTUS opinion allowing states to legalize sports gambling.
Commentators are right to suggest that Murphy v. NCAA will help sanctuary cities, but wrong to claim it is like to undermine federal laws restricting state taxes.
Congress can't "commandeer" state legislators, but it can achieve the same result with "preemption."
U.S. politicians prevented the development of a legal market for sports betting, driving eager gamblers to underground bookies.
Monday's Supreme Court ruling didn't legalize sports betting, but lots of states are eager to cash-in. Will they make a smart bet?
The Supreme Court's invalidation of a federal law preventing state legalization of sports gambling strengthens protection for state autonomy from the federal government.
"A more direct affront to state sovereignty is not easy to imagine."
Officials should be thinking about harm reduction, not criminalization.
Congress kneecapped minor league ballplayers' lawsuit with last week's omnibus bill. Even if that was the right thing to do, the way it was done is wrong.
The black market will continue to thrive if taxes and regulations are too burdensome, a new CEI report warns.
On today's podcast: Mona Charen gets booed, the gun control debate reignites, public sector unions suck, and Olympic curling is surprisingly awesome.
The culture of curling rejects appeals to authority and encourages civility even in the midst of intense competition. That's a lesson for American politics.
No, but they're awesome anyway.
An autopsy for the brief limited-government era of conservatism that ended on Friday
The Olympics-and nation-states-are less important than ever to our lives and geopolitics.
The Olympics is a great athletic event. But it also often features horrible human rights abuses, enormous waste, and propaganda for dictatorships. It doesn't have to be that way.
Sports, and sport broadcasting, can never be apolitical when nations are going head-to-head on the field of play.
The National Football League is propped up by a wide range of public subsidies.
Alphonso Baity transferred to a new college, but he can't play basketball unless the NCAA grants him a waiver.
Peak goat is finally achieved as goat yoga appears in a taxpayer-subsidized, goat-themed baseball stadium.
The DOJ fundamentally misunderstands the market for access and content.
The Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Christie v. N.C.A.A.
What's at stake next week in Christie v. N.C.A.A.
Former player: If there's any sport or league that should be leading the way in experiments with cannibis, of course it's the NFL.
Mayor Megan Barry used to oppose public subsidies for professional sports, but now she's a cheerleader.
Conservatives upset about the NFL's refusal to bend the knee to Trump on the anthem issue might redirect that fury to the NFL's raiding of their wallets.
Rid private functions of all symbols of the church-state. Then play ball.
Why should obsession with "cultural Marxism" mean one should fear protesting police crimes?
Let's start by allowing unwitting taxpayers to quit financing a lucrative entertainment industry.
The real 'Free Speech Week' kicks off on tonight's Kennedy, featuring Robby Soave, Matt Welch, Kat Timpf, Charles C.W. Cooke, and the Judge
Taxpayers shouldn't be supporting a sport that's giving kids brain damage and shouldn't build stadiums for billionaire NFL owners either.