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Hands up! Head for these alternative athletic destinations during the World Cup
Don’t let the shin guard and cleats mafia scare you into believing soccer is everything. FIFA may’ve gifted our president a Peace Prize before it takes over our entire shared continent for this year’s World Cup (11 cities in the US alone!). But if we’re being honest, America will always prefer sports that are pro-hand.…
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Seriously, Tucker Carlson? Come On
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Pity poor Tucker Carlson. Watching Donald Trump’s war in Iran—which Carlson has branded “the single biggest mistake” by a…
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Tyler Glasnow throws eight scoreless innings to help Dodgers salvage finale vs. Giants
SAN FRANCISCO — The Dodgers tout Yoshinobu Yamamoto as a Cy Young award contender, and every one of his starts has been a quality start, including the one he made here Tuesday. The Dodgers talk up Shohei Ohtani as a Cy Young award contender, and Ohtani has given up one run all season. He pitched six shutout…
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Special forces soldier arrested after winning $400K betting on Maduro’s capture: report
A soldier for U.S. special forces has been arrested for winning a $400,000 bet that former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro would be out of power by January. CNN reported on Thursday that the soldier opened an account on Polymarket, which allows people to make bets on nearly anything, and placed a $32,000 bet on Maduro’s…
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Does Anne Hathaway Really Sing in ‘Mother Mary’?
“Mother Mary” goes wide this week, meaning Anne Hathaway fans all over can see their queen transform into a pop music icon. But is she really singing that music? Directed by David Lowery, the film centers on a singer known as Mother Mary (Hathaway), who reunites with her estranged best friend and former costume designer…
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Fast, clever and satisfying, ‘Fuze’ is a throwback thriller with a ticking time bomb
David Mackenzie’s “Fuze” springs to life in a millisecond. In central London, a construction digger unearths an unexploded World War II bomb, and it starts to tick. The blast radius could be a half-mile wide. Outside the cordon, Chief Supt. Zuzana (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) oversees the evacuation of thousands of residents to Hyde Park. Inside the…
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‘Really astonishing’: Elections expert gobsmacked by new polls for Dems
Democrats have built a tremendous lead among independents, Carrie Dann of the Cook Political Report told CNN’s Kasie Hunt on Thursday’s edition of “The Arena.” “[Your outlet] has this new poll of battleground House districts that’s giving us an idea of where control the fight for control of the House stands at this moment,” said…
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‘Storage Wars’ star Darrell Sheets revealed struggle with depression, addressed suicide in nearly decade-old post
Darrell Sheets may have been fighting internal demons for years prior to his tragic death. “Depression is the Devil’s way of attacking us, it knows no mercy, it takes our smiles, it comes and goes, it ruins our relationships, it takes away our happiness, it leads to suicide in some cases, it destroys all thoughts…
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Since When Is Looting a Form of Virtue Signaling?
In 1785, Immanuel Kant introduced his famous “categorical imperative.” Put simply: Act the way you want others to behave. This dictate, a version of the Golden Rule, has been a bedrock of moral philosophy for centuries. But for the New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino, Kant’s “categorical-imperative-type thing” no longer applies. Moral rectitude, in some…
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Newly Deciphered Sabotage Malware May Have Targeted Iran’s Nuclear Program—and Predates Stuxnet
In the history of state-sponsored hacking, the spectrum of cyber operations bent on sabotage have ranged from crude “wiper” attacks that destroy data on target computers to the legendary Stuxnet, a piece of malware the US and Israel first deployed in Iran in 2007 to silently accelerate the spinning of nuclear enrichment centrifuges until they…