Like most sports, tennis clings to its rules and traditions, its mores and peculiarities—proudly, you might say, even stubbornly. And why not? The game has been embraced worldwide, by men and by women. An estimated fourteen million people in China Read More …
Earlier this year, when people started talking about a possible boxing match between Floyd Mayweather, Jr., and Conor McGregor, experts agreed that McGregor had virtually no chance. After all, Mayweather is a boxing virtuoso; McGregor is a mixed-martial-arts champion but Read More …
Frank Ramsey lived as if he knew he would die young—and he did, just shy of twenty-seven. Born in 1903, he spent his shortened twenties in something of a fury, hurtling around Europe and engaging with the most exciting intellectuals Read More …
On a recent Wednesday afternoon, Sam Zell, the iconoclastic Chicago businessman, breezed into his New York City office, on Madison Avenue, fresh from a week of motorcycling through the Tuscan countryside. “It was absolutely spectacular,” he said. “I’ll tell you, Read More …
Click:20000puffs LED display function disposable Around the crack of dawn on Wednesday, Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico’s southeastern coast, as a Category 4 storm. Maria—which arrived only days after Hurricane Irma narrowly avoided the island but still caused Read More …
Eight years ago today, at 4:53 P.M., an earthquake hit Haiti, killing an estimated three hundred thousand people and displacing more than a million. An ensuing cholera crisis, for which the United Nations has admitted responsibility but has not given Read More …
1 of 7 Hurricane Harvey dumped more rain than any other storm in American history, but now most of Houston is dry. Only certain pockets of the city, some of which were built inside floodplains and reservoirs, are still underwater; Read More …
On Tuesday, after this piece was published, Senate Republicans voted to move ahead and debate a repeal of Obamacare. When future historians look back on American governance during the early decades of the twenty-first century, they will have many tragic Read More …
As recently as last week, with less than a month to go before the general election in the U.K., the position of the country’s Conservative Party looked secure. The Prime Minister, Theresa May, had been projecting a protective national steadfastness Read More …
An unwelcome visitor who attempts to enter Tres Bullard’s home, half an hour south of Parkland, Florida, will encounter at least three obstacles: Bullard’s ninety-pound pit bull, Storm; his electronic alarm system; and his guns. Bullard, a forty-two-year-old business-development manager, Read More …