From guys trying to make it past women’s six-foot filter on dating apps to basketball players hoping to get drafted, men continue to exaggerate how tall they are.

Grown men weep, on the way to the N.B.A. Finals.

After winning the tournament in 2006, gli Azzurri have become a national embarrassment, and their failure has sparked a conversation in Italy over who gets to be a citizen.

The Knicks have made the N.B.A. Finals again and, as another home team instructs the city, “Ya gotta believe.”

After a strong showing in Qatar, things seemed to fall apart for the U.S. men’s national team. Now the Yanks, led by the international star Christian Pulisic, have to find their footing before playing host this summer.

For the Walt Disney Company’s most loyal fans, the pursuit of magic can come with a five-figure credit-card bill.

TikTok and Instagram made it easy to monetize the physical self. Now the social-media-savvy can use A.I. to play with their identity, or overhaul it entirely.

After years of skyrocketing fees and byzantine sales practices, a jury ruled against the company in an antitrust case. The effect on concert-going remains uncertain.

The former child star, who, now past thirty, often gestures at a deep well of discontent, wants us to know that he’s got his own ideas.

The celebrity tabloid has been basking in the Schadenfreude of catching politicians asleep on the job.

As kidfluencers come of age, some may find the law an imperfect means of restitution for what was lost and broken in their childhoods.

The U.S. is co-hosting the tournament this summer, despite having banned tourist visas for some participating countries.

Researchers happened on the birth of a sperm-whale calf—which, they found, is a complex family endeavor.

A Washington, D.C., native says goodbye to the arts complex before Trump’s wrecking crew goes to work on it.

Josh Wardle designed one of the most popular word games of our time. Now he wants to mainstream one of the most difficult ones.

Silicon Valley had grown to resent the mainstream media. Two tech insiders decided to build their own version of it.

Emerald Fennell’s new movie may be mediocre, but its popularity demonstrates the strength of a genre that Hollywood has all but abandoned.

Nick Land believes that digital superintelligence is going to kill us all. In San Francisco, his followers ask: What if, instead of trying to stop an A.I. takeover, you work to bring it on as fast as possible?

Years before he led the Trump Administration’s immigration-enforcement effort in Minneapolis, Bovino saw the 1982 Jack Nicholson film “The Border.”

You could think of the set as a tribute to the power and capaciousness of American popular music—or as a pointed critique of it.

For a genre that confronts the horrors of the present, the protest song of 2026 is curiously backward-looking.