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The Case Against High-School Sports
What if we spent the money, time, and energy we devote to Friday-night football games on boosting academic performance?
The case against high-school sports, the trouble with homework, the new terrorist training ground, how the NFL fleeces taxpayers, James Bond's inner life, and more
What if we spent the money, time, and energy we devote to Friday-night football games on boosting academic performance?
Public subsidies, tax breaks, and exorbitant salaries—it's time to stop enriching the league, and the feudal lords who own its teams.
How the recession changed our economic geography
While America focuses on threats from the Middle East and South Asia, Mali has become a jihadist haven.
What happens when a father takes on his 13-year-old daughter's nightly workload
How we came to fetishize failure
Five contemporary terms that are older than you might think
What does the rise of Marine Le Pen's right-wing nationalist politics say about France?
A discussion with Hank Adams, the CEO of Sportvision, the company that created the glowing hockey puck and football's yellow line
Comparing totally dissimilar populations can yield remarkably little insight.
Durable, foldable, and actually fun
The fast-money crowd enters the rental business.
What goes around really does come around.
Our advice columnist to the rescue
... while Obama's popularity takes a hit there, too
... or coaches or therapists. The primary importance of motivating students in post-secondary education.
The publication of William Boyd’s new 007 novel, Solo, occasions a reexamination of the superspy’s character—or telling lack thereof.
A review of the new novel Bleeding Edge
His latest gospel of success further romanticizes the Davids of the world and underrates the Goliaths.
We may like to think of ourselves as postmodern, but the modernists upended conventions—in art and in life—in ways that have challenged us ever since.
A journey from table to farm
New fiction from Jhumpa Lahiri, and the joy of singing with others
Responses and reverberations
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