What an end to the 2026 Olympic Games for Team USA. On the final day of competition in Milan, Italy, the Americans defeated the Canadians in an overtime, sudden-death, gold-medal game. Twenty-four-year-old Jack Hughes scored the winning goal. It was particularly sweet, and amazing, because in the third period he had his face bashed in
The demonstrations could further weaken the regime amid sputtering nuclear negotiations L: Ali Khamenei (Majid Saeedi/Getty Images) R: student protest in Iran Students at Iran’s Sharif University of Technology launched a new wave of anti-regime protests over the weekend, calling for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s death and clashing with government security forces, video footage shows.
For historians of human enslavement—and for black Africans more generally—the recently concluded African Nations soccer cup revealed images of an ugliness that has roots in the Muslim world’s trans-Saharan slave trade. As Senegal defeated host Morocco in the final, sections of the Moroccan crowd hurled racial insults at the Senegalese—just as Algerian spectators had, earlier
Scott Galloway can be annoying. In his book, Notes on Being a Man, he admits as much. A serial entrepreneur, popular podcast host, and marketing professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, Galloway is also not especially humble, but age and the experience of raising two boys prompted him to revisit his own
REVIEW: ‘The Doctors’ Riot of 1788: Body Snatching, Bloodletting, and Anatomy in America’ by Andy McPhee This book explores not death itself, but what remains after it: the human body. For most species, the dead simply decay where they fall. Humans, however, have long venerated their deceased, which explains the visceral disgust evoked by acts
Brian Raftery’s investigation of the serial killer, cannibal, gourmand, and pop cultural icon Hannibal Lecter is a very good book that sounds as if it should be a very bad one. When I first heard that Raftery, a respected entertainment journalist, was writing what purported to be a biography of Lecter, I both groaned and
Tomorrow marks the end of one of the great seasons in sports, one that only comes every four years. Two weekends ago, the Winter Olympics opened in northern Italy just before Super Bowl Sunday. The closing ceremony occurs tomorrow. And while most viewers tune in to cheer on the U.S. hockey teams, see great athletes