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A different kind of bracket

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]nyone who knows me can tell you that I love a good sports wager. I mean, I don’t always pay up—I still haven’t performed stand-up at an open mic night after the Red Sox’s disastrous 2015 season—but simply having a little extra skin in the game makes watching sports more […]

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Crime and ineffective punishment

It’s no secret that America loves to send people to prison. We have 5 percent of the world’s population and 25 percent of its prisoners—which is odd for a “land of liberty.” Lately it has become common to attribute our mass incarceration to the war on drugs. The conversation goes […]

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A Classic pastime

[dropcap]D[/dropcap]onald Trump is right. America doesn’t win anymore, and it hasn’t in a long time. But I’m not talking about defeats in trade, wars or border security; I’m talking about the very essence of America itself. I’m talking about baseball. This week marked the beginning of the fourth installment of […]

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Danny and the dinosaur(s)

If anyone could lay claim to the excuse “I’m not fat—I’m big boned,” it’s the titanosaur on view at the American Museum of Natural History. This creature has a thigh bone 8 feet tall. Taller than Shaq! That’s not just a big bone; it’s the biggest bone in the biggest […]