WHY HUNGARY IS SO GOOD AT WATER POLO

ARRIVING HOME A WORLD champion in the summer of 2023, Hungarian water-polo player Vince Vigvari got a taste of the rock-star life.

THE HARDEST SPORTS ON THE BODY

Athletes are competitive by nature, so when they get together for a massive sporting event like the Olympics, there's likely a bit of good-natured oneupmanship over whose event is hardest.

A SHOW OF PEACE

Andriy Yermak has been President Zelensky's closest wartime adviser. Now he's trying to find an ending.

PLASTIC BURNOUT

Fiji is ground zero for the planet's waste problem and the challenge of stopping it at the source

On Her Own

Melinda French Gates talks about her divorce, her life, and her post-Gates Foundation plan to help the world by helping women.

The true meaning of 'give me liberty'

ALMOST 250 YEARS AGO, FOUR weeks before the battles of Lexington and Concord, Patrick Henry rose in St. John's Church in Richmond, Va., to urge Americans to arm for a war that he saw as inevitable. He famously concluded his call to arms: \"Give me liberty, or give me death.\"

The Putin-Kim affair

VLADIMIR PUTIN'S recent trip to North Korea was a remarkable event for many reasons.

CHINA'S ROVING EYE

It wasn't so long ago that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called his country's relationship with China \"a marriage made in heaven.\" And when President Joe Biden told reporters in March 2023 that he wasn't inviting Netanyahu to Washington given his plans to undermine Israel's independent judiciary, Netanyahu planned a visit to President Xi Jinping in China instead.

Willie Mays - The "Say Hey Kid" who inspired

MILLIONS OF KIDS WHO watched Willie Mays play during the prime of his major league baseball career, or were born after he retired from the game in 1973, practiced making “The Catch,” just like Mays—who died peacefully on June 18, at 93 —did that afternoon back in 1954.

Julian Assange - After a 14-year battle against extradition

JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE after more than a decade spent holed up in a London embassy, then in British custody, largely to avoid extradition to the U.S. On June 26, the WikiLeaks founder appeared in a federal court in Saipan, a U.S. territory in the Pacific, following a plea deal with American prosecutors.

How will extreme heat affect energy bills?

AMERICAN HOUSEHOLDS CAN EXPECT TO SEE MORE than a rise in the mercury this summer. From June to September, the average cost of keeping a home cool is predicted to spike by nearly 9%-to $719.

THE KIDS ARE FAR RIGHT

Across Europe, rightwing parties have managed to find support among young voters.

The World According to Biden

Inside the President’s efforts to sustain the American century

Claudia Sheinbaum

A first for Mexico

The future is in Judge Merchan's hands

Now that a jury has found Donald Trump guilty of 34 felony charges, nearly everything about what happens next is up to Judge Juan Merchan.

Guilty on All Counts

A historic verdict for Donald Trump

As employers embrace Al, workers fret-and seek input

THE SWEDISH BUY-NOW-PAY-LATER COMPANY KLARNA has become something of a poster child for the potential benefits of generative artificial intelligence.

Afghan women defying the Taliban

WHEN KABUL FELL TO THE TALIBAN, RETURNING Afghanistan to the fundamentalist group's control, women who did not flee faced a reality in which they could no longer be who they are: journalists deleted evidence of their work, artists destroyed their creations, and graduates set fire to their degrees.

The way to a truly restful vacation

TRAVEL CAN DO WONDERS FOR YOUR well-being: expanding your mind, bonding you to loved ones, and connecting you with nature.

SHARING GRIEF AMID WAR

Spring and early summer are difficult times for both Israelis and Palestinians. Israeli Jews move from Passover, the holiday of freedom, to Holocaust Memorial Day, to Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terror, to the triumphant celebrations of Independence Day. The days pass with rituals intended to give us a shared meaning as a society and to inculcate and frame Israel's official narrative.

WESTWARD HO, AGAIN

Kevin Costner's risky western epic, Horizon, celebrates the height of the genre without quite getting there itself

DO LESS. IT'S GOOD FOR YOU

Unproductive moments can boost health and happiness

Strait Talk

TAIWAN'S NEW PRESIDENT LAI CHING-TE IS TAKING A HARD LINE ON CHINA. BEIJING IS NOT AMUSED

How U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is navigating America's AI future

UNTIL MID-2023, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE was something of a niche topic in Washington, largely confined to small circles of tech-policy wonks.

How Trump prepared his allies for a guilty verdict

The Trump campaign was prepared. Minutes after a Manhattan jury convicted the former President, fundraising pitches inundated inboxes, right-wing influencers stormed social media, and Donald Trump emerged from the courtroom to delegitimize the verdict.

Michael Crow The president of Arizona State on handling campus protests, embracing AI, the future of college sports, and partying

Since Oct. 7, protests and conflicts over free speech have erupted on college campuses and beyond. It seems that the job of university president has become one of the more stressful occupations in America. What's your stress level right now?

The most anticipated summer TV shows

The sun is coming out, the days are getting longer, and life somehow just seems that little bit happier. But even as nature beckons us out of doors, the lure of the fluorescent blue-light box remains, especially as a season once associated with reruns and stagnation only seems to get more packed with appointment viewing.

The decades-long build to Eruption

WHEN MICHAEL CRICHTON AND HIS WIFE SHERRI FIRST started dating, all they did was hike. Every weekend there they were, taking in the scenery from the coasts of California to the mountains of Hawaii. The island of Kauai was their favorite place, its rivers carving through volcanic rock and steep, jagged cliffs cutting the sky. The couple would wake before dawn to be first ones out on the trails, and together they'd take in the sunrise.

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES

A new comedy takes on the unfiltered realities of pregnancy, motherhood, and friendship

MOST INFLUENTIAL COMPANIES 2024

From retail behemoths to AI pioneers, these are the businesses shaping our world