How FIFA restructured the World Cup into its biggest payday ever, as host cities face a budget shortfall
FIFA will collect an estimated $8.9 billion from the 2026 World Cup while the 11 U.S. cities hosting it could...
The $17 billion mistake hidden inside SpaceX’s blockbuster IPO
The business media and analyst community almost universally hailed the SpaceX debut on June 12 as achieving a kind of...
TSA sounds alarm after World Cup fans pack their bags with American staple
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is issuing a serious warning to international World Cup visitors: Don’t pack ranch dressing in your...
The (Very) Manhattan Moms Whose Sons Are Running for Congress
Alex Bores’s mom patrols her son’s would-be Manhattan congressional district in a sash that reads “ALEX BORES’ MOM.” She takes...
New York’s Dive Bars Have a Rich Past. Do They Have a Future?
What makes a dive a dive? In New York, the debate may turn on a few key criteria. Can you...
‘Sugar,’ with Colin Farrell as an alien private eye, gets a new and improved second season
For whatever reason, I never reviewed the first season of “Sugar,” which I’d stopped watching before its late-season big reveal...
How a Tiny Private School in the Suburbs Attracts World Cup Teams
Achraf Hakimi, the star of Morocco’s national team, dribbled a soccer ball around the streams of sprinkler water on an...
‘We’ve Never Seen Anything Like It’: Boston Scrambles to Get More Beer as Scottish World Cup Tourists Drink It Dry
When soccer (or football, if you don’t want to get yelled at) fans arrive in your town for a World...
Four AI giants just raised $188 billion. Here’s how to survive the Big AI-pocalypse
Q1 2026 was a bumper quarter in venture capital. Investors deployed $300 billion of fresh capital, more than double the...
The Pentagon claims a 1,775% boost in AI use is paying off the DOGE promise a year later—but adoption is still under 50%
The U.S. Department of Defense says its AI use is surging and boosting its efficiency, but less than half of...
