The Nation’s Top Scorer Plays for a School and a People
They lined up for blocks along Amsterdam Avenue in December, standing in the cold for two hours, hoping to squeeze into the modest Max Stern …
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The unpredictable Leandro Trossard: Perfecting the art of ‘fake’ shots and Cruyff turns
He can go both ways, put defender’s on their behinds and create space for team-mates. We analyse why the Arsenal forward is so dangerous.
Nobel Prize Awarded to Scientists for Research About Temperature and Touch
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly on Monday to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian “for their discoveries of receptors …
Lulu Roman, Who Brought Big-Hearted Sass to ‘Hee Haw,’ Dies at 78
Obesity was a source of trauma for her, but also of her comedy, which she showcased, along with gospel singing, on the long-running down-home variety show.
An Unexpected Display of Unity in a Normally Fractious Parliament
This week there was a surprise turn of events in Parliament that was highly unusual if not unprecedented. Conservatives shocked political …
The Horrors of Irish Magdalene Laundries, Revisited
SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE By Claire Keegan A tiny thing itself — a slice-of-life novella cheekily packaged as a full-scale novel — Claire Keegan’s …
Novak Djokovic, Great at Tennis and Bad at Science, Awaits His Fate
What’s worse than an anti-vaxxer in a pandemic? An anti-vaccine star athlete. That paragon of physical health, cloaked in a cape of defiance …
Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation
The Trump administration has sharply expanded its campaign against experts who track misinformation and other harmful content online, abruptly canceling scores of scientific research grants at universities across the country. The grants funded …
Russia’s Military, Once Creaky, Is Modern and Lethal
MOSCOW — In the early years of Vladimir V. Putin’s tenure as Russia’s leader, the country’s military was a hollowed-out but nuclear-armed shell …
Didion’s Prophetic Eye on America
Joan Didion was a writer uniquely attuned to the disorder and fragmentation of our times, the dizzying changes overtaking America since the 1960s …