Daniel Snyder: Washington football team; $1 billion; Potomac, Md.

Earlier this morning, Slate announced that it would join the ranks of the many publications that are barring the Washington football team’s racist name from their stylebook. Giving credit to Slate editor David Plotz’s terrific reasoning for the decision, The New Republic editor Franklin Foer tweeted out that his magazine would also be omitting the name from their style guide:

The @davidplotz case against the moniker of DC football team is air-tight. We’re changing @tnr stylebook. http://t.co/9S1PaKbCsn via @slate

— Franklin Foer (@FranklinFoer) August 8, 2013

In an email, Foer expanded on his reasoning: “This is hardly a great moral issue of our time, but it’s not a terribly complicated one. It’s an offensive name. Period.”