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Jun 22, 2026
The Fourteenth Amendment was intended to right a wrong, not to beat Paraguay and Australia on the pitch—but then, American history is a long succession of accidents that lead...
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Jun 15, 2026
Last Wednesday, my eight-year-old daughter and I biked through a playground and down a long series of strip-mall parking lots, avoiding the gonzo drivers of greater Boston, past a...
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Jun 8, 2026
When the book is written on this N.B.A. season—imagine a Dostoyevsky novel—there will surely be a long disquisition on Game One of the Finals, in which the New York...
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May 26, 2026
Sometimes it is hard for Elina Svitolina to find the motivation to get on a tennis court. She wakes up and checks the news from Ukraine, and she sees that Odesa, where she was born,...
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May 18, 2026
Jacob Misiorowski, the Milwaukee Brewers’ young ace, is the same height as Aaron Judge, the New York Yankees’ hulking slugger, and about half his size. When they faced...
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Apr 14, 2026
Growing up, when Jimmy O’Brien’s two sisters held a back-yard contest to determine who was more athletic, O’Brien, then a high-school student in suburban...
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Apr 6, 2026
On Wednesday, during a break in a 153–131 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers, the Washington Wizards led a fan onto the court to attempt a half-court shot, blindfolded, for a...
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Mar 23, 2026
LeBron James began this N.B.A. season, his twenty-third, as a punch line. When it was announced, in October, that he would miss a number of early games because of sciatica, a cartoon...
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Mar 2, 2026
Two years ago, two very bad teams, the Detroit Pistons and the Brooklyn Nets, played a game that meant very little in the league’s over-all standings. To Cade Cunningham, it...
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Feb 23, 2026
Less than two minutes into overtime of the men’s gold-medal hockey game at the Milano Cortina Olympics, between the U.S.A. and Canada, the American Jack Hughes—a fresh...
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Feb 17, 2026
Four years ago, at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, Alysa Liu, a U.S. figure skater, seemed happy.
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Feb 2, 2026
Last Sunday, in the Minnesota Timberwolves’ locker room, after the team’s loss to the Golden State Warriors, 111–85, the young star Anthony Edwards sat back in a...
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Jan 26, 2026
Last week, at the Australian Open, Amanda Anisimova sailed through much of her second-round match, against Kateřina Siniaková, displaying her superior power and accuracy. Few...
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Jan 12, 2026
Perhaps it was all part of a grand plan: The Pittsburgh Steelers’ dreadful 2–5 stretch in October and November. The failure to convert nine consecutive third downs in a...
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Jan 8, 2026
In late November, the Washington Spirit and Gotham F.C. met at PayPal Park, in San Jose, California, for the National Women’s Soccer League’s championship game. During a...
Jun 22, 2026The Fourteenth Amendment was intended to right a wrong, not to beat Paraguay and Australia on the pitch—but then, American history is a long succession of accidents that lead...
Jun 15, 2026Last Wednesday, my eight-year-old daughter and I biked through a playground and down a long series of strip-mall parking lots, avoiding the gonzo drivers of greater Boston, past a...
Jun 8, 2026When the book is written on this N.B.A. season—imagine a Dostoyevsky novel—there will surely be a long disquisition on Game One of the Finals, in which the New York...
May 26, 2026Sometimes it is hard for Elina Svitolina to find the motivation to get on a tennis court. She wakes up and checks the news from Ukraine, and she sees that Odesa, where she was born,...
May 18, 2026Jacob Misiorowski, the Milwaukee Brewers’ young ace, is the same height as Aaron Judge, the New York Yankees’ hulking slugger, and about half his size. When they faced...
Apr 14, 2026Growing up, when Jimmy O’Brien’s two sisters held a back-yard contest to determine who was more athletic, O’Brien, then a high-school student in suburban...
Apr 6, 2026On Wednesday, during a break in a 153–131 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers, the Washington Wizards led a fan onto the court to attempt a half-court shot, blindfolded, for a...
Mar 23, 2026LeBron James began this N.B.A. season, his twenty-third, as a punch line. When it was announced, in October, that he would miss a number of early games because of sciatica, a cartoon...
Mar 2, 2026Two years ago, two very bad teams, the Detroit Pistons and the Brooklyn Nets, played a game that meant very little in the league’s over-all standings. To Cade Cunningham, it...
Feb 23, 2026Less than two minutes into overtime of the men’s gold-medal hockey game at the Milano Cortina Olympics, between the U.S.A. and Canada, the American Jack Hughes—a fresh...
Feb 17, 2026Four years ago, at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, Alysa Liu, a U.S. figure skater, seemed happy. 
Feb 2, 2026Last Sunday, in the Minnesota Timberwolves’ locker room, after the team’s loss to the Golden State Warriors, 111–85, the young star Anthony Edwards sat back in a...
Jan 26, 2026Last week, at the Australian Open, Amanda Anisimova sailed through much of her second-round match, against Kateřina Siniaková, displaying her superior power and accuracy. Few...
Jan 12, 2026Perhaps it was all part of a grand plan: The Pittsburgh Steelers’ dreadful 2–5 stretch in October and November. The failure to convert nine consecutive third downs in a...
Jan 8, 2026In late November, the Washington Spirit and Gotham F.C. met at PayPal Park, in San Jose, California, for the National Women’s Soccer League’s championship game. During a...