Seth Wickersham, ESPN Senior WriterDec 12, 2024, 08:00 AM ET Close Senior Writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine Joined ESPN The Magazine after graduating from the University of Missouri. Although he primarily covers the NFL, his assignments also have taken him to the Athens Olympics, the World Series, the NCAA tournament and the NHL…
Jim O’Connor says he is not a politician. Even though he holds elected office as chairman of the Arizona Corporation Commission, O’Connor views his job as more akin to a judge in a courtroom. As he prepares to leave the commission after just one term, O’Connor spoke with the Arizona Capitol Times about what he…
A war monitor said on Tuesday that Israel had conducted 300 strikes on Syria since the fall of president Bashar al-Assad, adding that the raids had “destroyed the most important military sites” in the country. Assad fled Syria as an Islamist-led rebel alliance swept into the capital Damascus, bringing to an end on Sunday to…
While many appearing on stage during president-elect Donald Trump’s victory speech in the early hours of 6 November were familiar faces, one man, standing next to Tiffany Trump, was not. Michael Boulos, the son of Lebanese billionaire and Trump’s new senior adviser on Middle Eastern affairs, Massad Boulos, and the husband of Trump’s youngest daughter,…
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Most democratic elections are about competing views of the world. But in the United States in recent years, that divide seems to have evolved, moving from differences of opinion about what the nation could be to differences of opinion about what the nation is. In an October op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, Geoffrey Cohen…
WASHINGTON — The grinding war between Ukraine and its Russian invaders has escalated ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration, with President Joe Biden rushing out billions of dollars more in military aid before U.S. support for Kyiv’s defenses is thrown into question under the new administration. Russia, Ukraine and their global allies are scrambling to put…
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. With the dust now settled on the presidential election, dismayed Democrats have begun taking stock, which is not to be confused with taking accountability. How should the party respond to its decisive second loss…
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio lawmakers are continuing to pass legislation as quickly as possible, focusing this week on education policy, criminal justice reform and low-level marijuana regulation. But as we get further into lame duck session, provisions from bills will be stuck into unrelated policy to get them passed faster. “A lot of stuff can…