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This article was produced in partnership with Foreign Policy In Focus.

Cleaning out an office file cabinet a while back, I came across a slim, hardback accountant’s ledger, dated 1976. It had been used to track some of the very first donations to In These Times, when the magazine (then a newspaper) was getting off the ground. There was a mix of familiar and unfamiliar names, many of whom were friends or family members of the magazine’s founder, Jimmy Weinstein. The final name on the first page is Noam Chomsky, who gave $50 in March and then another $100 in June.

There’s a distinctly American culture surrounding football: People watch with their families over Thanksgiving, throw parties for the Super Bowl, tailgate before games. And—while some sports (the NBA, for instance) tend to have left-leaning fans, and others (think NASCAR) find most of their viewers in red states—the NFL tends to be popular across the political spectrum. Perhaps that’s what made the league’s recent string of player protests so divisive.

Just one day after the 15th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, 10 Democrats voted to indefinitely stall a bill that would have withdrawn U.S. support from the Saudi-led war on Yemen.