The other writers exist on this site to gently correct or walk back the things Emily Leibert writes. The Doja Cat blurb probably would have been an article on it’s own if Leibert hadn’t come out as pro-using-teenagers-to-manage-your-hookups in the last one on her.

A person who worked in criminal law in Russia has insight on the broad outlines of how the Russian court system works, which is all he was quoted on: he wasn’t talking about the specific law around this case. Barring contrary information, he’s a reasonable source for the context.

One does not need to be practicing in a specific area of criminal law to talk about the patterns he was talking about. He wasn’t making a legal argument, he was essentially talking about statistics (the prevalance of guilty verdicts in Russian criminal law). If a heart surgeon was talking about something that is…

1) Possibly true (though since you’re supplying information as to what Russia’s standards are, who knows?), but not particularly salient in the larger context of the article or the case, which is largely about the strategy to get her out of Russia. Whatever the truth or not of the underlying case, it’s political now.

She, and many other athletes have been playing in Russia for years without incident, so I’m going to assume that the millions of dollars she earned in that time, and being a transient foreigner and therefore not a threat to the Russian nationalist project, helped insulate her from what say, a Central Asian migrant…

Not really the same then, is it?

I don’t think they said she had to. But I don’t know a lot of people that would turn down $1 million to do what they love, unless they’re earning so much already that $1 million more isn’t worth it.

She quoted at least one person with explicit expertise on the subject, and several others with related expertise and linked to her sources. Do you have a specific objection to the content? Share it with the class!

“It’s your responsibility as a reasonable adult to seek out appropriate legal advice, and not just make stuff up, or listen to someone who isn’t knowledgeable in that field of law.”

Some of that is true, but the point of these laws is to make people afraid. I’m not going to call anyone a coward for being afraid of people who are trying to make them afraid, and in many cases have the means to act on it.

Why is the framing in the headline and various parts of the article about the doctors rather than the law? The people complaining had prescriptions before, so clearly the doctors were happy to prescribe it until doing so put them in legal jeopardy (and in some cases it wasn’t doctors denying the prescriptions, it was…

She isn’t asking for the US to not support Ukraine. Russia has not indicated that that is the price of her release either. That pretty much only appears here in the comments, from the kind of people who want to sneer at the fear and desperation of a woman trapped in extremely frightening circumstances, and who seem to…

I don’t feel it’s irrelevant to note the economic factors that led to a person being in Russia in a story about them being arrested in Russia. People hear professional athlete, they often think millionaire, and a good writer isn’t going to assume that every one of their readers has all the facts about a story. The way…

“shoehorn your same tired clickbait “Why don’t the women get paid as much as the men who generate 100x the revenue they do?”

I’m sure the writers here don’t relish being pitted against one another, but this was so much better than the previous pieces on Griner.

I remember when Obama was president, right-wing loons were constantly convinced that everything he did was intended to be a distraction from something more nefarious (they didn’t always know what). This is the second article about this family in the last few months that has taken this weird conspiracy-theorist approach…

Agree, on all points.

I assume that you know and understand all of the statistical methods and tests they were referring to in their methodology? Are familiar with the 50-odd citations that serve as the background for this work? Have a solid grasp of how one weights a sample in a study of this type?

You weren’t able to read the article, but you were able to criticize their methodology, analysis and identify confounds that the researchers and their peer reviewers were not able to identify AND you claim to have anecdotal experience that you think is equally worthy of consideration? We’re all just so, so grateful.

Complaining that you don’t like the mayor’s agenda, and also that he’s not working enough at it, is very “the food was terrible, and also the serving sizes were too small.”