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CEO Picks - The best that international journalism has to offer!  S2Germanyâs Far-Right Surge Isnât New  One morning in November 2011, two men walked into a bank in the eastern German city of Eisenach, pistol-whipped the bank teller, and stole around $99,000. After local police traced the men to a camper van on the side of a nearby road, gunshots rang out, and the vehicle went up in flames. Police officers found two men dead inside; one had shot the other and then turned the gun on himself. Later that day, after hearing what had happened in Eisenach, a woman about 100 miles away poured gasoline around her apartment and set it on fire before fleeing the scene.
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S14How to Get Results Quickly After a Merger or Acquisition Delayed and ineffective commercial integration can turn a good deal into a loser, because sales growth ultimately determines whether a merger achieves its value-creation goals. To create value, mergers need top-line gains: More sales to more customers, expansion into new territories or market adjacencies, new products and services to sell to existing customers. But compared to other areas of post-merger activity, the commercial engine starts late, operates uncertainly, and often runs out of gas before reaching its goals. With M&A activity picking up and high interest rates making delay costlier, it’s more important than ever that private equity and corporate acquirers leave the deal table with underwriteable, ready-to-go plans to make deals pay off through growth — and carry those plans out quickly.
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S33How to Avoid Getting Sick This Summer As flowers bloom and temperatures climb, many are eager to get back outside. But while the sun may be shining, there is a dark side that can make the great outdoors not so great.Gangs of germs are lurking in the woods, in the soil, in the water, and in your food, ready to rain on your summer parade.
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S3The Hidden Critique of U.S. Foreign Policy in 'Red Dawn' A high school class lecture on the Mongol Empire is suddenly interrupted by a paratrooper assault. The Russian-speaking paratroopers shoot first. The teacher is killed. Students scatter. An RPG blows up the school bus. Amid the chaos, a group of boys, in their letterman jackets and baseball caps, manage to clamber into the back of an older brother’s pickup truck. As they escape through familiar American streets suddenly turned into a war zone, one of them sees his dad. “Papa!” the student cries out in Spanish as his father is swarmed by enemy soldiers.A high school class lecture on the Mongol Empire is suddenly interrupted by a paratrooper assault. The Russian-speaking paratroopers shoot first. The teacher is killed. Students scatter. An RPG blows up the school bus. Amid the chaos, a group of boys, in their letterman jackets and baseball caps, manage to clamber into the back of an older brother’s pickup truck. As they escape through familiar American streets suddenly turned into a war zone, one of them sees his dad. “Papa!” the student cries out in Spanish as his father is swarmed by enemy soldiers.
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S11The Quest to Make Flying More Comfortable Back in 2017, Kelly Conaboy had it out for the neck pillow: “This half-ovate, toilet-seat cover-esque object reigns as King of Travel Accessories, while failing miserably at its intended sole use,” she wrote. One of the many compelling arguments in her essay is that the neck pillow resembles “the first-ever stone pillow used by Mesopotamians in 7,000 BC”; “Seems like we should not still be using a pillow that looks like the first-ever stone pillow used by Mesopotamians in 7,000 BC, but that’s just my opinion,” Conaboy writes.Even if your thoughts on travel neck pillows aren’t as strong as Conaboy’s, you may relate to the experience of shelling out for one travel convenience or another, hoping it will make your time in the sky a little bit easier. (I don’t have a neck pillow or a sleep mask myself, but I do meticulously prepare my in-flight Spotify playlists—a different type of sleep aid.) The truth is that flying is weird and uncomfortable, no matter what you bring aboard. Perhaps all that’s left is to give in.
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S28A Father's Day Reflection on Leadership Discovering that the person you married makes a wonderful partner and embodies exemplary fatherhood brings unparalleled joy. While my father undoubtedly influenced me, it's through observing my husband's role as a devoted father and accomplished physician that I've come to appreciate the profound connection between fatherhood and leadership.With Father's Day approaching, I offer an argument advocating for emulating the practices of model parents. Effective leadership extends beyond commonly cited traits such as vision and strategic acumen. It encompasses behaviors typically associated with positive fatherhood as well. Here are six practices to consider as you embark on or continue your leadership journey, inspired by the lessons learned from my husband and the virtuoso leaders I've had the privilege to work with.
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S30Sit Back and Relax or Get Uncomfortable and Grow? Running a small business involves less complexity in terms of resources, personnel, communication, systems, among others, than running a large one. Still, for any size company, growth can be a challenge. Companies that are not growing are at risk of jeopardizing their permanence or position in the market. Just as people do, companies also go through different stages in their lifespan that require a different approach, communication, leadership, priorities, barriers, and decisions. There are entrepreneurs who are not aware of this, so when their company begins to demand or require new systems to support growth, leaders may lead it down the wrong paths that can stagnate or make it disappear.
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S4NIH needs reform and restructuring, key Republican committee chairs say As investigators continue to gain insight into the early days of Covid-19, the origins of the pandemic may be still up for debate. In addition, congressional investigations into the National Institutes of Health have revealed that scientists have conducted, or have been granted approval to conduct, dangerous experiments with little oversight. And in some instances, they have been intentionally deceptive about research being conducted with taxpayer dollars. NIH officials have consistently resisted transparency at every stage of various congressional inquiries.While most NIH researchers and employees are hardworking people devoted to scientific and medical advancements, this agency’s involvement with the now-debarred EcoHealth Alliance and subsequent cover-up have broken the public’s trust in the agency. It’s time to mend those wounds and rebuild the American people’s trust in the NIH.
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S8S10How "The Real World" Created Modern Reality TV One spring day in 1992, Eric Nies, a twenty-year-old model from New Jersey, walked into a swanky SoHo loft that he shared with six other young people. In the kitchen, he found two of his housemates, Heather B. Gardner and Julie Oliver, flipping through a coffee-table book of nude photographs and giggling. "Did you leave this out for us?" Julie asked him, teasingly. She held up the book to display one of the images: a full-frontal shot of Eric, in black-and-white, as he took a cautious step through a deep, mysterious-looking forest, like some hunky innocent exploring Eden.One floor downstairs, in the control room for the first season of MTV's "The Real World," the show's co-creators, Jon Murray and Mary-Ellis Bunim, gazed at a bank of live-feed monitors in excitement. They had planted the bookâthe fashion photographer Bruce Weber's collection "Bear Pond," which had been Eric's big break as a modelâinside the loft, hoping that the racy image would provoke a reaction from the housemates. Bunim, an experienced soap-opera producer, had a playful nickname for these kinds of interventions; she called the method "throwing pebbles in the pond." Now the gamble looked like it was about to pay off, triggering a flirtation or, possibly, a fight. Either outcome was fine with them.
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S9When Dads Cry: A Memoir in Man Tears © 2024 Condé Nast. All rights reserved. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. Ad Choices
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S12My Encounter With the Fantasy-Industrial Complex Each morning, Google Alerts arrive in my inbox detailing the adventures of a fictional character bearing my name. Last month she starred in an article about “A Global Censorship Prison Built by the Women of the CIA.” In a Substack article headlined “Media Ruled by Robust PsyOp Alliance,” later posted on Infowars, an anti-vaccine propagandist implicated my alter ego in a plot to bring about a “One World Government.” A blog post titled “When Military Rule Supplants Democracy” quoted commentators who lumped her in with the “color revolution blob”—a reference to popular revolts against Russian-backed governments—and the perpetrators of “dirty tricks” overseas. You get the idea. Somewhat flatteringly, the commentators who make up these stories portray me as highly competent; one post on X credited the imaginary me with “brainwashing all of the local elections officials” to facilitate the theft of the 2020 election from Donald Trump.The plotlines in this cinematic universe go back to the so-called Twitter Files—internal documents released to a group of writers after Elon Musk bought the social-media platform. Some of those writers have posited the existence of a staggering “Censorship Industrial Complex,” of which I am supposedly a leader. In written testimony for a March 2023 hearing of Representative Jim Jordan’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, the Substack writer Michael Shellenberger claimed that my cohorts and I “censored 22 million tweets” during the 2020 election. It also insinuated that I have CIA ties that I’ve kept “hidden from public view.” The crank theory that I am some kind of secret agent caught on. X users with follower counts in the tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands started referring to me as “CIA Renee.” The mere mention of the character’s name—as with Thanos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Lex Luthor in the DC Extended Universe—became enough to establish villainy.
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S26Double Your Chances of Winning Your Next Deal With This Strategy Clearly define the true purpose of your growth. What seems obvious to you may not be as clear to your team. They might resist growth if they feel disengaged or close to burnout. Ensure your team understands why you're pursuing specific opportunities, how they align with your overall business goals, and what increased growth can mean for their professional development.Position your services clearly in the market. Identify what makes you unique and what problems you solve better than anyone else. Knowing what opportunities to pursue and, more important, which ones not to pursue is crucial for maintaining focus.
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S32Apple Intelligence Won't Work on Hundreds of Millions of iPhones--but Maybe It Could Apple has announced its next era. Your experience of using an iPhone, Mac, or iPad will be guided by, and suffused with, artificial intelligence. Apple calls it, of course, Apple Intelligence. ItâÂÂs coming later this year. ThatâÂÂs right: We have another âÂÂAIâ to deal with.You may have heard plenty about how it makes Siri smarter, rewrites your emails and essays, creates never-before-seen emoji, and turns rough sketches into bland AI art.
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S49The 'Jimmy Clean Hands' Election 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.Some of the people who once supported Donald Trump seem to want him to win, but without the moral stain of voting for him themselves.
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S21US hits 180 GW of solar power. Here's how we get to 1,000 by 2035. This article is an installment of Future Explored, Freethink’s weekly guide to world-changing technology. You can get stories like this one straight to your inbox every Saturday morning by subscribing here.It’s 2035. The sun rises, and you wake up refreshed after eight hours of uninterrupted sleep. You slept like a baby, knowing that the morning light would soon be powering up a world driven by clean, zero-emissions solar power.
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S22S50Boston Should Rename Its Airport for Bill Russell It's high time the city properly recognized its greatest sports champion, a civil-rights hero who endured horrific racism during his time with the Celtics.It's a fun time to be a fan of the Boston Celtics. It is also a fraught time, given how polarizing the franchiseâand the cityâcan be to everyone who doesn't live there. I get it: No one wants to hear from us. New England sports teams have won entirely too much this century (sorry). Our fans can act like entitled dickheads (guilty).
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S5Telling new stories can help people see the value of vaccines Nearly nine in 10 Americans strongly believe in the overall value of childhood vaccines. Reflecting the value communities place on them, every state and the District of Columbia require children to get vaccinated against certain diseases before they start school, including measles, mumps, polio, tetanus, whooping cough, and chickenpox.Troubling stories about outbreaks of previously eradicated diseases like measles notwithstanding, most schools are free of vaccine-preventable diseases. This is precisely because vaccination requirements ensure that virtually every child’s immune system has been prepared to recognize and resist these diseases.
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S254 Mental Health Reminders for Women in the Workplace Last week marked the conclusion of another successful Mental Health Awareness Month. It was enlightening to witness all of the healthy dialogue put out into the digital public sphere, ranging from targeted social media campaigns and accessible resource hubs to contributed columns offering words of encouragement, like this piece I'm currently writing. The past month exemplified how far our society has come toward making mental health advocacy less taboo. It wasn't always this way, especially when I first entered the business world in the 1990s. We've made a lot of progress over the years. However, it's still important to keep the conversation going beyond the month of May--particularly for women navigating the uphill battles and balancing acts associated with corporate enterprise environments.Â
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S1India Steps Back From the Brink Worse for Modi, he suffered a double personal blow in the elections. His party lost a majority of seats in Uttar Pradesh, India’s largest state, once considered an impregnable fortress for his brand of Hindu nationalism and identity politics. It was only this January that Modi consecrated a temple in the state to the Hindu deity Ram, in a ceremony that both represented the fulfilment of decades of Hindu nationalist agitation and conjured a euphoric triumph for the prime minister. And for the first time, the party also did not do well in constituencies where Modi spent time campaigning. Voters seemed to be turned off by what was one of the most vicious and vitriolic BJP campaigns of recent years, replete with explicit hate speech directed at India’s minority Muslim community.
But can his alliance partners trust him? Even if his personality does not prove an obstacle, the suspicions of his allies might. There are at least two potential stumbling blocks here. The first is that as the BJP consolidates its power, it typically gains an advantage over its alliance partners, by hook or by crook. Alliances allow the BJP to broaden its appeal and acceptability in the states home to its allies; eventually the party begins to make inroads into the base of those alliance partners. In this way, the BJP has in the past used its power to break up smaller parties, attracting legislators through the allure of its power and integrating them within the BJP. Neither of Modi’s principal allies, N. Chandrababu Naidu, the leader of the Telugu Desam Party, or Nitish Kumar, the head of the Janata Dal (United), will be unaware of these dangers. If they let the BJP get too successful, they put their own growth at risk.
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S16S18S31Panerai's Submersible Elux Lab-ID Dive Watch Generates Its Own Light Show Equipping a wristwatch with a button to make its display light up can hardly be described as groundbreaking nowadays. Early digital watches were doing that in the 1970s, while rudimentary light-on-demand dials, such as TimexâÂÂs celebrated Indiglo system, have been commonplace since the 1990s (and Apple, arguably, has reduced the concept simply to a button-free flick of the wrist).So would you pay $96,300 (ã92,400) for a hulking luxury dive watch that pulled a similar trick?
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S23S27After 30 Long Years, Walmart Is Making a Generational Change The economy was a bear, but people blamed us for not being able to somehow defy the laws of math to buy a house or fund a retirement plan, based on an entry-level McJob and moonlighting by tending bar or working at a video rental store (for example).  When your older boss asks you for the ninth time to show them how to do some basic task on a computer, but does it with an air that suggests they think this critical tech tool is beneath them, let's just say, as the president when Gen Xers were your age used to say, "I feel your pain."
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S38Barnes and Noble Nook 9-Inch Lenovo Tablet Review: Affordable and Capable If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDWe like e-readers because they're easy on the eyes and relatively simple, with one use case: reading. The Nook, which is made by Barnes and Noble, has been a solid e-reader option since 2009, and the brand has released several traditional tablets along the way. This year, it updated its tablet made in collaboration with Lenovo.
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S48'Bridgerton' Faces the Limits of Romantic Fantasy The resident bully of Bridgerton, Cressida Cowper, has changedâreally. After several humbling seasons on the marriage market, the character played by Jessica Madsen has stopped trying to insult-sling her way to the top of the eligible-bachelorette pile. Instead, in the show's third season, she makes a bold claim that could cast her out of Regency London's high society altogether. "You would like to know who Lady Whistledown is? You shall know," she announces before a room of guests at a party. "I am she."This declaration is, of course, a lie. Lady Whistledown, the pseudonymous author of the popular gossip pages that enthrall the ton and serve as the show's framing device, is really the pen name of Penelope Featherington (played by Nicola Coughlan), another young woman who'd long been overlooked by potential suitors. Yet Cressida appears giddy with excitement at her deception. She's found a way to become too scandalous to be marriage material, freeing herself from her betrothal to a man more than thrice her age, a match that her parents made for her. Calling herself Lady Whistledown could also allow her to cash in on a reward that Queen Charlotte (Golda Rosheuvel) has promised to whoever can unmask the writer. It's a selfish schemeâand a genuinely surprising twist for the series. Cressida's statement has nothing to do with romance, sex, or the Bridgerton family.
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S19'Feral Swine Bomb' Explained: Why Wild Hogs In 35 States Have Scientists Worried Wild hogs have taken over areas in Florida and North Carolina this spring, exploding to nearly three dozen states as part of a troubling decades-long uptick federal officials warn could ignite a dreaded "feral swine bomb," sparking concerns a growing population can spread diseases to humans, and destroy critical agricultural land and forests.Feral hog populations have grown substantially over the past four decades, taking over areas in the South, California and southern Great Plains, as well as multiple counties in Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and New Hampshire, according to a 2023 report from the USDA.
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S20Even Before Heat Dome Strikes These Cities Broke Daily High Temperature Records June 12Tucson, Arizona, broke its daily record of 108 degrees, while Provo, Utah, broke its daily record at 100, as did Fort Collins, Colorado (97), and Brownsville, Texas (99), while Reno, Nevada, tied its daily record at 99, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.June 7Las Vegas broke another daily record 15 110 degrees, while Albuquerque’s temperature soared to 113 degrees, a daily high tying the city’s all-time record, and in Florida, Fort Lauderdale and Jacksonville broke their daily records at 95 and 100 degrees, respectively, with Orlando tying a record at 96, and Mobile, Alabama, breaking its all-time daily high at 98.
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S43When Anxiety Is Not a Superpower There is no feeling or metaphysical concept that Pixar Animation Studios can't turn into some sort of blob. This was my complaint with the studio's previous effort, 2023's Elemental, which conjured a city populated by talking gobs of fire and water who clumsily embodied broader metaphorical topics. The first Inside Out, released nearly a decade ago, was the peak of Pixar's blob cinemaâa children's drama about brightly colored beings representing human emotions such as joy and sadness, warring with one another as a representation of an 11-year-old's evolving inner life. The systematization of something so multifaceted felt a little glib, but Pixar knows how to entertain, and so Inside Out pushed my buttons with practiced ease.Inside Out 2 is, similarly, quite entertaining. Still, there were more than a few moments when I bristled at Pixar's willingness to boil the headiest emotional concepts into the kind of bland CGI goop one might encounter during an Apple keynote. Joy being a chipper, canary-yellow lady, sure; Anger being a grumpy red stump with flames for hair, fine. But have you ever wondered what someone's "sense of self" might look like? Inside Out 2 has the answer: a bunch of glowing strings tied into a tree-shaped bow. Every time staggeringly vague matters of the mind were reduced to screenwriting MacGuffins, some insidious blob in my own mindâcall that emotion "David's nonsense detector"âhad me wondering what Jung might make of all this.
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S34A Guide to RCS, Why Apple's Adopting It, and How It Makes Texting Better If you've been keeping up with all the news out of WWDC 2024 this week, you'll know that Apple is bringing the RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging standard to iPhones later this year with iOS 18. That's a win for Google, which has long backed RCS on Android. But what actually is RCS? And why does supporting it matter?The short version: It's an upgrade on the standard SMS/MMS texting standards that smartphones have been using from the start. It brings better support for all the cool features we're used to in our messaging apps, like read receipts and images, and it adds some extra security layers too.
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S29250 Years Ago, Ben Franklin Discovered I did not aim at gaining his favor by paying any servile respect to him, but after some time took this other method. Having heard he had in his library a certain very scarce and curious book, I wrote a note to him expressing my desire of perusing that book and requesting he would do me the favor of lending it to me for a few days. He sent it immediately, and I returned it in about a week with another note expressing strongly my sense of the favor.When we next met in the House, he spoke to me (which he had never done before) and with great civility, and he ever after manifested a readiness to serve me on all occasions, so that we became great friends, and our friendship continued until his death.
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S17U.S. debt could threaten the economic growth that's needed to keep the burden sustainable, former IMF official says The spike in bond yields since the Federal Reserve began aggressively raising rates in 2022 have boosted interest costs. Even Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen acknowledged in May that the outlook for higher rates over the long term will make it harder to keep deficits and debt expenses under control.“Given the political will, we could resolve debt concerns quite easily,” he wrote a New York Times op-ed. “To the extent that debt is a problem, that’s a reflection of political dysfunction, mainly the radicalization of the G.O.P. That radicalization deeply worries me for several reasons, starting with the fate of democracy, and federal debt is nowhere near the top of the list.”
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S42A scientific mission to save the sharks A hammerhead shark less than one meter long swims frantically in a plastic container aboard a boat in the Sanquianga National Natural Park, off Colombia’s Pacific coast. It is a delicate female Sphyrna corona, the world’s smallest hammerhead species, and goes by the local name cornuda amarilla—yellow hammerhead—because of the color of its fins and the edges of its splendid curved head, which is full of sensors to perceive the movement of its prey.
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S35S36How to Shop Like a Pro During Amazon Prime Day - July 2024 Amazon Prime Day is arguably one of the most confusing shopping holidays in existence. It's not even a "day"âthe members-only event spans 48 hours. Amazon also promises "millions of deals," but the displayed discounts are often misleadingâor outright false. Some deals are actually available to people who don't subscribe to Prime. Add in the frenzy of limited-time Lightning Deals and you've got a recipe perfect for spending too much money.Fear not! We're here to help. WIRED's Gear team is familiar with common shopping pitfalls, and I've been a deals writer for nearly a decade. What time do sales start and end? How do you tell whether a deal is actually a deal? We pooled our collective knowledge to get you prepared for Amazon Prime Day.
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S39HiGround Opal Base 65 Keyboard Review: More Hype Than Substance If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDMy entire awareness of HiGround stems from content creators on social media promoting the company's keyboardsâshowing them off, touting how great they sound and feel to type on, and talking about the "premium unboxing experience."
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S4018 Best Camera Bags, Slings, Straps, and Backpacks (2024) If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDThe perfect camera bag doesn't exist. I once spent two hours at B&H in New York City trying to fit all of my photo gear inside each of more than 20 bags the store had on sale, and I still left unsatisfied. Everyone's needs are different, and what works for me might not work for you. But to make your search easier, the camera enthusiasts on the WIRED Gear team have tested more than 75 bags to help whittle down the choices. We've shoved our equipment into slings, messenger bags, backpacks, and cubesâwe've even gone bag-freeâall in search of a convenient way to carry everything while keeping it protected and lightweight. These are our favorite picks.
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S41How do brainless creatures control their appetites? The hydra is a Lovecraftian-looking microorganism with a mouth surrounded by tentacles on one end, an elongated body, and a foot on the other end. It has no brain or centralized nervous system. Despite the lack of either of those things, it can still feel hunger and fullness. How can these creatures know when they are hungry and realize when they have had enough?
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S45Donald Trump's Message to Milwaukee "Milwaukee, where we are having our convention, is a horrible city," the former president reportedly told congressional Republicans.Donald Trump has long cultivated an image as a salt-of-the-earth, everyday American who loves the parts of the nation that elitist liberals dismiss as flyover country. That's why the Republican National Convention this year is in Milwaukee, the largest city in Wisconsinâa state that Trump narrowly lost in 2020, and which is a must-win for President Joe Biden's reelection campaign. Now that the RNC has fixed its website to feature a picture of Milwaukee rather than Ho Chi Minh City, the former president has his own words of praise.
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S4650 Years Ago in Photos: A Look Back at 1974 Half a century ago, President Richard Nixon resigned from office, streaking took off as a fad, and the stuntman Evel Knievel attempted to jump across a canyon in a rocket motorcycle. Also in 1974, the boxers Muhammad Ali and George Foreman fought in Zaire in a match dubbed the "Rumble in the Jungle," Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's career home-run record, the tightrope walker Philippe Petit walked across the gap between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, the Turkish military invaded Cyprus, and much more. The Swedish pop group ABBA performs during the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 in Brighton, England, with the song "Waterloo," on February 9, 1974. ABBA went on to win the competition that year, launching a hugely successful career. #
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S37The Best Gender-Neutral Clothing Brands (2024): Tested and Reviewed If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDThe fashion industry writ large reinforces gender norms in many ways, but there's one every one of us encounters daily: gendered sizing and styling. A faceless entity decides what a man or woman should look like, and if you don't fit either mold or identify with either label, that's your problem. Thankfully, there's a growing segment that offers tools to opt out of that binary.
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S44The Secret Code of Pickup Basketball The game presents a social problem: How does one find comity among a group of jostling strangers?The only immovable object on my weekly calendar is a Sunday-night basketball game. We play in a rented gym in Washington, D.C., usually at a high school, because we're all conserving cartilage and the local middle schools don't place much cushioning underneath the hardwood. The game has been running for more than 20 years, but it wasn't always on Sunday nights, and none of the original players is still around. When people get hurt or move away, they're replaced like planks on the Ship of Theseus. The continuity of the game is the important thing. It has to stay in motion, but not because anyone is trying to get somewhere. None of our regulars retains any ambition of climbing up to some higher echelon of organized basketball, at least I hope not. That's part of the game's magic. The enlivening competitive energies that it summons have no higher purpose. They are entirely internal to the game. Play in earliest childhood has this quality.
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S47What Children Remember About Their Fathers This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic's archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here.Father's Day looks different for each family. For some, it is a moment to celebrate the dad(s) in your life and let them know how much you appreciate them. Maybe it's with a homemade card, or pancakes, or an afternoon in which a dad is allowed to take a nap and watch replays of the 1998 NBA finals uninterrupted. But the day can also be steeped in mourning, as the loss of a father, or father figure, is felt more acutely and the memories of that person can come bubbling to the surface.
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