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June 15, 2014
Jeffrey Harrison
Father’s Day
June 15, 2014
Elaine Teng
Germany-Portugal Preview: The Great Team Versus the Great Player?
Portugal has a point to prove and Germany...well, Germany just has a lot of midfielders
June 15, 2014
Matthew Niederhauser
Photos from the Overlook: Watching the World Cup in Salvador's Favelas
Matthew Niederhauser's photo diary: Day two.
June 14, 2014
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
The Anatomy of a Goal: How Error Leads to Perfection
Opportunity for a goalscorer is a cannibal act
June 14, 2014
Shaj Mathew
The Six Stages of England Fan Pessimism
Plumbing the psyche (or at least the tweets) of a nation that expects the worst in this (and every) World Cup
June 14, 2014
Ilan Stavans
What If the Most Beautiful Goal of the World Cup Has Already Been Scored?
Strikers beware: Robin van Persie's header will be near impossible to match.
June 14, 2014
Mona Eltahawy
Football, Love, and Feminism: My Holy Trinity
How a sport "not for girls" shaped the life of Mona Eltahawy.
June 14, 2014
Luke Dempsey
My Cancer, My Friend's Cancer, and a Stadium's Worth of Meat
Toasting the World Cup (and Much More) at a Brazilian Steakhouse
June 14, 2014
Simon Schama
A Stake Through Tiki-Taka's Heart
And didn't it feel good.
June 14, 2014
Adam Plunkett
Robert Frost Was Neither Light Nor Dark
He's worth reading because we're both
June 14, 2014
David Hajdu
In Praise of Beautiful Music
There's nothing edgy about Maria Schneider's big-band orchestra, but there's nothing wrong with that
June 13, 2014
Miles Kohrman
A Holland Fan Has Made the Perfect Highlight Reel of the Dutch Massacre of Spain
June 13, 2014
John Burnside
Why Men Avoid Growing Up
June 13, 2014
Jang Jin-Sung
I Was Kim Jong-il's Poet Laureate
Writing helped me join North Korea's inner circle—until I committed treason.
June 13, 2014
Amy Weiss-Meyer
Chelsea Clinton Made $600,000 a Year at NBC. That Upset a Lot of Male Journalists.
June 13, 2014
Jason Webster
Can the Spanish Monarchy Survive Without King Juan Carlos?
His successor, Crown Prince Felipe, faces many challenges
June 13, 2014
Matthew Niederhauser
Striking Images of Brazil's Love-Hate Relationship with This World Cup
Matthew Niederhauser's photo diary: Day One.
June 13, 2014
Shaj Mathew
Robots Might Be Smart, But They're Terrible at Soccer—and They Flop, Too
A report from an awkward, adorable robot-soccer match
June 13, 2014
Ilan Stavans
God Uses the World Cup to Teach People Geography
June 13, 2014
Chris Oates
Should FIFA Be Run Like the Eurovision Contest?
A political analyst on how to reform the corrupt World Cup

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