Jack Margolin

Jan 17, 2025 | thetriangle.org | Jack Margolin

The Philadelphia Eagles delivered a convincing victory in the opening round of the NFL playoffs, defeating the Green Bay Packers 22-10, and set themselves up to make a Super Bowl run in the postseason. The game opened up with Lincoln Financial Field roaring with excitement, and the cheers were rewarded. On the opening kickoff, Eagles LB Oren Burks delivered a blistering hit, forcing a fumble which LB Jeremiah Trotter Jr. would recover.

Oct 18, 2024 | thetriangle.org | Jack Margolin

After their best regular season finish since 2011, the Philadelphia Phillies had high hopes for the 2024 postseason. What they got, however, was a crushing and shocking defeat from a divisional rival, the New York Mets. The Phillies flamed out in four games, in what was an overall non-competitive series. Even with a first-round bye, the Phillies ended this postseason the same way they finished the previous two: at home. So, where do they go from here?

Oct 9, 2024 | warontherocks.com | Jack Margolin

In 2023, a dramatic series of events led Western observers to declare the imminent demise of the Wagner Group, Russia’s infamous paramilitary force. First, there was Wagner’s costly assault on Bakhmut in the spring, where the organization was estimated to have lost up to 20,000 fighters, many of them convicts drawn from Russian prisons. Then there was the anticlimax of the June mutiny led by Wagner’s chief curator and protagonist, Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Oct 8, 2024 | themoscowtimes.com | Jack Margolin

In March of 2023, Russia’s state-owned broadcaster RT aired a documentary titled Zone of Redemption, following a group of Russian convicts deployed with the paramilitary Wagner Group paramilitary at Bakhmut. The film opens with a title card declaring that “The prisoners were given a choice: remain in prison or redeem their guilt with blood,” language borrowed directly from Stalin’s 1942 order instituting penal battalions for World War II.

Aug 28, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Atossa Araxia Abrahamian |Sarah Moss |Jack Margolin

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy. NYU, $32 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4798-2832-6Corporations bribe politicians and undermine democracy, according to this vigorous polemic. Stetson University law professor Torres-Spelliscy (Corporate Citizen) surveys historical misdeeds of American corporations, including the Crédit Mobilier railroad embezzlement scandal of the 1860s, as well as modern skullduggery enabled by the dark money unleashed after the Supreme Court’s Citizen’s United decision.