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VIA TWITTER / X   (1 of 4) Most of the content of the new issue of Ireland’s Village magazine has been loaded online. But at   […]

A version of this article is in the current edition of Ireland’s Village magazine. The Village edit, which I did not see pre-publication, inaccurately states that […]

by Irvin Muchnick   The tumult at the Washington Post is in the news. On the heels of the withdrawal of incoming top editor Robert Winnett, […]

by Irvin Muchnick   Joe Bernal was a long-time head swimming coach at Harvard University, among other places. His list of accomplished swimmers includes Hall of […]

“Irvin Muchnick made my carefully selected list of personal heroes long ago. Nobody rakes the muck, nobody shines a searchlight on human cockroaches with a more […]

A piece about Irish and American law enforcement’s inaction in the case of the teenage swimmer raped and impregnated in 1991 by George Gibney, the former […]

UNDERWATER: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and Around the Globe will be published shortly after the Paris Olympics by ECW Press, distributed […]

Pre-orders of UNDERCOVER: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and Around the Globe are available at the links below. Official publication date is […]

by Irvin Muchnick   The House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party – yes, there is such […]

by Irvin Muchnick   Bob Bowman, well known as the coach of Michael Phelps, history’s greatest ever Olympic swimmer, has jumped from Arizona State University to […]

In the news: “Lawyers for Nassar assault survivors have reached $100M deal with Justice Department,” https://www.npr.org/2024/04/18/1245491081/lawyers-for-nassar-assault-survivors-have-reached-100m-deal. My bookUNDERWATER: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA […]

This article was first published on March 13 at https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/03/13/opinion-usa-swimming-coach-abuse-youth-sports-congress-reforms/.   by Irvin Muchnick   Just months before the Paris Summer Olympics, the little-noticed Commission on […]

This article was first published on March 18 at https://beyondchron.org/congressional-commission-proposals-to-curb-sports-coach-sexual-abuse-have-bay-area-roots/.   by Irvin Muchnick   After a whitewash 2014 “independent review” of USA Swimming’s Safe Sport […]