Nike's Colin Kaepernick Ad Is a Watershed Moment

This is a thoroughgoing win for Kaepernick and his fellow players, and a thoroughgoing loss for the NFL. If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser.       Nike's Colin Kaepernick Ad Is a Watershed Moment   Kaepernick has managed to split Nike off from the NFL, enlist the company in his protest against police violence, encourage other players in their own protests, and do it all while putting some ill-gotten corporate money to good use, and putting a little of it into his own pocket as well. The deal is a thoroughgoing win for Kaepernick and his fellow players, and a thoroughgoing loss for the league. Read More           People Are Already Burning Their Nikes in Response to the Colin Kaepernick Ad   This is both amazing and incredibly stupid. Amazing because, well...people are, with no apparent sense of irony or self-awareness, lighting stuff they paid for on fire and calling it a boycott. That's also the reason it's incredibly stupid. Boycotting is supposed to be a means of putting economic pressure on a company. Much like when all those MAGA dudes started buying tons of Starbucks, the concept collapses when you have already given the company your money. Read More           The American President Says His Political Allies Shouldn't Be Prosecuted Because They Might Lose Reelection   A week does not go by in this country without Donald Trump, American president, launching an attack on the free press, or the rule of law, or the independent system of justice that separates the United States and other liberal democracies from authoritarian states. That continued this Labor Day. Read More           CNN Has Pulled Episodes of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown Featuring Asia Argento   Argento, who was dating Bourdain when he died of suicide in June, appeared in two episodes in Rome and Southern Italy and directed one of the final episodes in Hong Kong. Last month, however, The New York Times reported that Argento allegedly paid actor Jimmy Bennett $380,000 after he accused her of sexual battery in 2013. According to Bennett, a 37-year-old Argento had sex with the actor when he was 17 at a hotel in Marina Del Rey, California. All three episodes have been removed from CNN's streaming service. Read More           The Happytime Murders Is the Perfect Ending to an Awful Summer   The Happytime Murders is 90 grim minutes of puppets saying "f— you" to people, people saying "f— you" to puppets, and puppets getting murdered. It is both relentless and dull, simultaneously desperate and delighted with itself. It is exactly what we deserve, and it is awful. Read More           John McCain's Funeral Was a Council of War—Just as He Meant It to Be   John McCain was a beloved figure to many of the people who came to bid him farewell. But there was so much subtext under the proceedings that the mantle shattered, and subtext became text, plain as the rain that fell and passed while the service continued. This was a funeral with more than one purpose—to celebrate the passing of John McCain and to summon a rebirth of politics that did not so much reek of grift and vodka. Read More         Read More on Esquire.com       Follow Us     Unsubscribe  Privacy Notice   esquire.com ©2018 Hearst Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Email Privacy, 300 W 57th St., Fl. 19 (sta 1-1), New York, NY 10019