A couple of weeks ago, as the Harvey Weinstein story continued to spool out across the news, I surveyed the growing pile of allegations—the horrific and familiar tale of an angry, wealthy, egotistical man with a casual habit of treating Read More …

The distinguished sportswriter Frank Deford was tall, lean, and sideburned, with a Clark Gable pencil mustache, well-tailored clothes, and often a frisson of purple silk at the neck or breast. He looked the way he wrote and spoke, combining the folksy, Read More …

The Mbeubeuss landfill, on the outskirts of the Senegalese capital, Dakar, feels almost volcanic to visitors. Mountainous piles of waste encircle wide craters, where trash fires spew smoke and spit ash into the sky. The odor is nauseating: decaying foods Read More …

The N.B.A. draft at Barclays Center, in Brooklyn, is a scene of family happiness that feels both intensely cathartic and also overdetermined. The players sit at round tables before an enormous stage; behind them are rows of press tables and, Read More …

In 2013, after a legal battle that had already stretched on for three years, Jessica Colotl, a twenty-six-year-old paralegal who was born in Mexico and raised in Georgia, thought that her immigration troubles were finally over. In 2010, she had Read More …

In his last public remarks, made on a live television show, “El Almohadazo,” on Monday morning, the Mexican journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas spoke by Skype with the show’s presenter, Fernanda Tapia. Their conversation dealt with issues pertaining to Mexico’s decade-old Read More …

The error in baseball is a unique phenomenon in sports—a judgment of the quality of play that makes no difference to the outcome. No other sport, not even a close cousin like cricket, has anything like it. Records of errors Read More …

And so the summer ends for Nick Kyrgios, the talented and tortured Australian tennis player, with yet another memorable performance that he would probably like to forget. On Wednesday, in the first round of the U.S. Open, Kyrgios, whom I Read More …

Knowing the details of policy helps when cutting a legislative deal in Washington. On Wednesday, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer left the White House with the outlines of a breathtakingly excellent deal for their party. The key to their victory Read More …

Click:Car diagnostic tool Debates over policies to deal with sexual assault on college campuses have been fraught in the best of circumstances. But under President Donald Trump’s Administration, such debates bring with them a particularly toxic backstory. There was, of Read More …