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Vince McMahon Controls Wrestling History in Order to Control All of Wrestling

How the WWE chairman warped pro wrestling all the way to WrestleMania 39.

by Abraham Josephine Riesman via Polygon on March 27, 2023
My Grandfather the Zionist

He helped build Jewish American support for Israel. What’s his legacy now?

by Abraham Josephine Riesman via Intelligencer
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on June 23, 2021
The 100 Pages That Shaped Comics

From Mickey to Maus, tracing the evolution of the pictures, panels, and text that brought comic books to life.

by Jeet Heer, Abraham Josephine Riesman, Sarah Boxer, Heidi MacDonald, Fred Van Lente, Brian Cronin, Charles Hatfield, Christopher Spaide, Joshua Rivera, Klaus Janson, Mark Morales, Richard Starkings via Vulture
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on April 16, 2018
The Man Who Made Black Panther Cool

Christopher Priest broke Marvel's color barrier and reinvented a classic character. Why was he nearly written out of comics history?

by Abraham Josephine Riesman via Vulture
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on January 22, 2018

Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America

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True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee

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Donald Trump, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, and Vince McMhaon at a press conference before Wrestlemania 23, 2007.

The Misunderstood History of American Wrestling

A recent biography of Vince McMahon presents him as an entertainment tycoon who changed culture and politics. The real story is as banal as it is brutal.

by Nadine Smith via The Nation on November 10, 2023

A graphic featuring illustrations of Stan Lee.

The Unheroic Life of Stan Lee

In a career of many flops, he laid claim to the outsized success of Marvel Comics.

by Jillian Steinhauer via The New Republic on February 9, 2021

A line of women athletes linking arms and wearing shirts with a passage from Title Nine on the back.

Women's Sports Happened By Accident, And Could Be Taken Apart On Purpose

The long battle against Title IX.

by Diana Moskovitz via Defector on March 6, 2025

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