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The unwritten brand promise of professional tennis is that, for its largest events, it alone among sports brings together men and women at the same venue, at the same time, to play the same game. Does it do enough, as a business, to reinforce this value proposition? It does not. In too many of its…

Did I rob the bank? Sure. But what about the bank? Banks commit white-collar crimes all the time—in this case, the crime of having money that I wanted. So that’s on them. It’s called entrapment, and there is a movie with that title where Catherine Zeta-Jones walks through lasers. Incidentally, she does that to commit…

In the best of all possible worlds, you’re reading this while vacationing in some exotic or faraway locale. If you’re not, we’ve got the next best thing: a collection of pieces that explore the simple pleasures of summer travel. In “My Repertoire,” Calvin Trillin describes his culinary adventures in Nova Scotia. In “Dickens in Eden,”…

Of course, it was Megan Rapinoe who scored the game-winning goal in the United States’ 2–0 victory over the Netherlands, in the final of the World Cup. And of course she did it in the way that she did: taking a penalty kick in the sixty-first minute, with all the attention and pressure of the…

Arriving early at the Mall for Donald Trump’s “Salute to America” event on Independence Day, I saw no tanks. But I did see, everywhere, the face of John F. Kennedy, Jr.—on hand fans, on signs, and, in one instance, as a cutout fixed to the back of a chair. The chair belonged to a dark…

Donald Trump’s Fourth of July address was most remarkable for the things it did not contain. Immediately afterward, commentators noted that Trump didn’t use the opportunity to attack the Democratic Party, to issue explicit campaign slogans, or, it would appear, make any impromptu additions (with the possible exception of the claim that American troops commandeered…

Listen with: Click Here: fjallraven kanken backpack iTunes WNYC Stitcher TuneIn As Aaron Sorkin began writing his theatrical adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” he found a “white savior” dynamic that he felt he had to challenge; the result was a lawsuit from the literary executor of Harper Lee. And the recent Poet Laureate Tracy…

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July 1st, the twenty-second anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong, formerly a British colony, to Chinese rule, began with a champagne toast between Carrie Lam, the city’s elected chief executive, and officials from China’s Liaison Office in Hong Kong, the local enforcers of Beijing’s will. The rest of the day was marked by a…

The national emergency represented by the Trump Presidency began on its first day, January 20, 2017. The new President’s inaugural address, written largely by Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon, sounded all the themes of right-wing nationalism, populism, xenophobia, phony alarm, and blatant deception that we now take as the daily lexicon of the Trump White…