There’s so much to despise about high school sports in 2025. Crass commercialization, win-at-all-cost woefulness, etc.  Counterpoint: Paul VI vs. Gonzaga! On Tuesday night I attended this matchup of ...

An earlier blog called blockbuster trades “rare in the WNBA.” In fact, they happen twice a week now. We regret the error.

Jen Golbeck is a writer, scientist, and professor at the University of Maryland. Her Substack, The MAGAReport, tracks what’s ...

Relative velocity’s a hell of a thing. It’s impossible to conceptualize how fast 300 kilometers per hour is until you’re on a train that fast. Even then, it’s primarily visual: Until you look at the ...

Coming into last Sunday’s match against Arsenal in the Women’s Super League, the Chelsea starting lineup was missing some of ...

On a cold and cloudy morning in Ukraine’s second city, our tour guide Kirill met us at our hotel. Twenty-seven, with dark, ...

There is something unstable at the most basic level about any space with too much capitalism happening in it. The air is all ...

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I will admit, there was a point at the start of New York magazine’s profile of the jubilant young Trumper right when I ...

When things just happen to work out for you, do you chalk that up to coincidence, or is it something more? Julia Cameron ...

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In two weeks, the Philadelphia Eagles will play the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl. Every single day until then, a ...