Brian Cohn

• Culture

With a viewership of nearly 10 million people, the 2016 ESPY’s represented an ideal platform for athletes and sports leagues to communicate with a significant audience, and four of the NBA’s best-known players seized this opportunity to relay an ...

• Law/Justice
• United States

Eleven states have laws that require police departments to sell all confiscated weapons. Some sell to licensed dealers, others put them up for auction, but the end result is the same: These ownerless guns return to the public. Reselling guns to the p...

• Elections
• United States

Fantasy football has exploded in the past decade, but daily fantasy sports, led mainly by two giants, FanDuel and DraftKings, allow fans to create lineups for only one week and have recently added a whole other twist to fantasy football gaming. Both ...

• Arts
• Culture
• Elections
• United States

As the Oscar season comes whirling in, the next big culture war stands in the wings ready to pounce on an unsuspecting, yet willing audience, sparking debate in Hollywood and in Washington. Over the past few years, movies have not only brought movieg...

• Elections
• United States

As the presidential primary schedule rumbles to life, Republican candidates are looking to the South to give themselves a leg up. In recent memory, the South has been taken for granted as a particularly dark shade of red, prone to being overlooked by...

• United States

Over the past year, the professional sports world has seen many landmark firsts: the first female NBA coach, NFL referee, NFL coach, and professional baseball player. While some of these breakthroughs have received more attention than others, the av...

• Magazine
• Rhode Island
• United States

Fenway Park, Wrigley Field, Lambeau Field: These stadiums — and the teams that occupy them — are shimmering icons in the pantheon of American culture. But as team owners and national leagues attract more and more fans, they continue to grow in po...

• United States

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker have a lot in common. Both are in positions of power and have a responsibility to care for their constituents. However, both are currently using this power in dishonest and deceitful wa...

• Elections
• United States

Throughout his presidency, and especially during 2014, President Obama has made a concerted effort to connect to young voters through nontraditional means. He has made appearances on many TV shows like The Colbert Report and Jimmy Fallon. He has been...

• United States

President Barack Obama recently unveiled his nearly $4 trillion budget, and it immediately made waves. As the unabashedly liberal wish list it is, Obama knows it will never be passed by the newly elected, GOP-controlled Congress. Nevertheless, some o...

• United States

Betting on sports has been formally illegal in the United States since 1992, when Congress passed PASPA, the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act. However, current NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has hurled the legality of sports gambling back...

• United States

As Thanksgiving rolls around, eager shoppers jump at the abundance of Black Friday sales. Last year, Black Friday was taken to a whole new level when a variety of stores began opening on Thanksgiving Day instead of in the wee hours of a tryptophan-ad...