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Lisa Fernandez – 'Sports Is One Way to Teach So Much About Life'

Lisa Fernandez, 51, has often been called women's softball's greatest-of-all-time. An overpowering pitcher and a great hitter, in the 1990s she led the UCLA Bruins to two national titles and the U.S. Olympic team to three gold medals, helping to spark the sport's tremendous growth in popularity since then. She is now an assistant coach at UCLA. The following conversation has been edited for space and clarity. -Meredith Wolf Schizer

THE CHILDREN OF WAR

FOR CHILDREN FROM SOUTH SUDAN, YEMEN, AFGHANISTAN, SYRIA AND UKRAINE, WAR DOESN'T END ONCE THEY HAVE REACHED SAFETY

Immersive Theme Parks Where You're the Main Character

"Theme park" usually conjures up images of roller coasters, but rides aren't the main attraction at these quirky spots.

Lesley Manville

"I just thought, this is great. I can do a feel-good movie."

Democrats Need a More Urgent Post-Roe Message

A generic appeal to vote blue won't cut it. To win, replicate the GOP's take-no-prisoners approach, this strategist says

ROLE OF A LIFETIME

HOW ZELENSKY STARED DOWN PUTIN TO TRANSFORM FROM A SCRIPTED LEADER TO A REAL-LIFE ONE

Don't Joke About Old Age (It's Bad for Your Health)

A new study suggests that negative attitudes about aging could increase risks of disease

AMERICA'S FASTEST GROWING ONLINE SHOPS 2022

FOR THE SECOND YEAR, NEWSWEEK HAS teamed up with respected research and data firm Statista to compile our annual list of America's Fastest-Growing Online Shops.

'Title IX Was Life-changing'

Beach volleyball champion Misty May-Treanor on her path to Olympic gold and the opportunities made possible by Title IX

Sheryl Swoopes – 'I made guys respect me as a baller'

Basketball Hall of Famer Sheryl Swoopes talks about being a Title IX baby and the first woman drafted into the WNBA

Megan Rapinoe – 'I'm proud of where we've gotten to'

Soccer great Megan Rapinoe talks with best-selling author Roxane Gay about her career, her advocacy work and legislating equality

Jenny Slate

ONE OF THE FIRST YOUTUBE VIRAL VIDEOS WAS MARCEL THE SHELL WITH Shoes On. Released in 2010 and created and voiced by Jenny Slate with Dean Fleischer-Camp, the video about a talking shell has since raked in millions of views, been turned into a children's book and now is a new film from the studio A24.

Why Sports Nearly Didn't Make It Into Title IX

The daughter of Representative Patsy Mink, Title IX’s legislative champion, recounts the personal drama behind the near-exclusion of athletics from the law

‘TITLE IX MOVED MOUNTAINS—BUT THERE'S SO MUCH MORE TO DO'

Distance swimmer and five-time Olympic medalist JANET EVANS on the need to continue building equity and inclusion in sports

‘YOU HAVE TO LET THE GAME COME TO YOU'

College hoops star ALIYAH BOSTON on her championship path and why Black women in sports deserve more respect

What Science Says About Abortion

Overturning Roe won’t stop states from tying abortion access to fetal viability

Minnie Driver – Baby Boys and Expletives

Minnie Driver finds life doesn't follow any roadmap

Re-Fund the Police!

Two years after George Floyd's death, innovative approaches to police reform are flourishing. Just don't use the D-word

Minnie Driver

Q&A

Love and Medicine

How ChenMed keeps its employees and clients happy and healthy

Iman Vellani

SOME HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES GET LUGGAGE, OTHERS GET CAST AS Marvel superheroes. Well, actually, that only happens to Iman Vellani, who plays the title character in the new Disney+ series Ms. Marvel (June 8). "I got the part literally on the last day of high school, which was the most perfect graduation present."

America's Best Dentists - 2022

The professionals most respected by their peers to keep you smiling

Inflation First Aid

Near record-high prices are likely to stick around all year, experts say. Here are creative ways to save on the everyday items that have gone up the most

PRESIDENT DeSANTIS?

THE OUTSPOKEN, WOKE-BATTLING REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA COULD OUT-TRUMP TRUMP ALL THE WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE

Putin Thinks Smaller

U.S. officials say captured leader's war ambitions documents show the Russian and options-have shrunk

The Meryl Streep of TV

Jean Smart, star of HBO Max's comedy Hacks, can play just about anything

‘Division of the World Is Inevitable'

Countries need to choose whether to align with autocrats or democracies, says a former NATO Secretary-General

City of Water

As climate change triggers sea-level rise and extreme weather, even New York, one of the world's best-prepared cities, may not be doing enough

Bans Off Our Bodies

MoveOn and Abortion Access activists rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court on May 3 after the leak of a draft opinion overturning the Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision.

Slower Ways to See the World

Travel should be an act of discovery, not a checklist to complete. Slow travel is an invitation to explore things at a pace that allows you to absorb your surroundings as you move through them-on terms that are meaningful for both you and the people and places you encounter. It may seem counterintuitive that by doing less, you will see more, but that's exactly the idea we propose in our book, Kinfolk Travel (Artisan). Following are a sampling of the destinations from the book, meant to inspire thoughtful travel and spark deeper ways of thinking about new journeys and destinations.