The U.S. victory over Iran sent it to the round of 16, with a match against the Netherlands on Saturday. But the team already has much to be proud of.
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A Night With FunkFlex, New York Rap Historian and Booster
What happens when various generations of rappers end up in the same room? The radio D.J. and local connector, craving hometown pride and action beyond the algorithm, put out the call.
Continue readingU.S. Pledges $53 Million to Help Fix Ukraine’s Electrical Grid
American officials said they hoped the commitment would spur allies to make similar donations, as many Ukrainians head into winter without power or water.
Continue readingCharles Koppelman, Force in the Music Industry and Beyond, Dies at 82
A dealmaker and superstar matchmaker, he worked with artists like Barbra Streisand, Dolly Parton and Tracy Chapman. Later he was chairman of Martha Stewart Living.
Continue readingThe World Cup continues for the U.S. Will Christian Pulisic be part of it?
DOHA, Qatar — The job for the United States soccer team was simple, really: Win. The stakes and the stage and the politics all made things harder going in to their game against Iran on Tuesday night at the World Cup. The own goal by their federation …
Continue readingThe Table for Trump’s Antisemitic Banquet Was Set Long Ago
The former president, who is running for his former office, invites to his home one of the most notorious antisemites in the United States, who brings along a well-known Holocaust denier. So far, to my knowledge, the only member of Donald Trump’s …
Continue readingDoes Inflation Disproportionately Hurt the Poor?
Overzealously fighting inflation to help lower-income workers might actually do the opposite.
Continue readingProtect Our Democracy. Support Local News.
Like a lot of folks, I have been thinking quite a bit lately about how to shore up our democracy. We voted in November, and that seems to have gone pretty well. Election deniers and conspiracy-mongers running in swing states lost. Common-sense …
Continue readingHarvard, Herschel Walker and ‘Tokenism’
We are at a moment in which tokenism is on trial. This is true both in terms of the Supreme Court’s consideration of affirmative action in higher education and in terms of the candidacy of the former running back and political airhead Herschel Walker …
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