It feels like nowadays, you can’t talk about the professionalized world of fighting for entertainment without talking about Donald Trump. Earlier this month, Trump and several Cabinet members sat ...

In contemporary American politics, one of the few things that both sides of the political spectrum can agree on is that politics has become increasingly polarized since the mid-2010s. Long gone are ...

It's well known that President Trump is a devotee of professional wrestling. Pundits often describe his moves in the White House in wrestling terms: smackdowns, cage fights and so on. We ask how the ...

Here we are in the overlapping center of a Venn diagram showing pro-wrestling enthusiasts and PBS fans. You’ll find chops, suplexes, lucha libre dazzle, piledrivers, dropkicks, clotheslines, and maybe ...

In 2022, Marc Raimondi was waiting for his breakfast in a restaurant in Tokyo. As he waited, the local man serving the food spotted the black hoodie he was wearing, adorned with the logo of the New ...