In August 2009 the homes and businesses of nineteen thousand people in Port Harcourt, Nigeria were reduced to rubble over the course of a single weekend. Security forces moved through the Njemanze waterfront community with bulldozers and no warning. There was no compensation. There was no resettlement plan. There was
MLB wants younger fans. It has tried a pitch clock, bigger bases, a universal designated hitter, a draft lottery, and a crack down on shifts. Some of these changes are defensible on their own terms, but none of them address the actual problem, which is not that the game is
Most people choose where to live by accident: a job offer, a college town they never left or proximity to family. But have you ever actually considered the trade-offs? Climate against cost. Politics against commute. A shorter drive to work against a bigger paycheck. Below is an interactive survey
A Personal Land Survey · Full Edition Find Your Spot. Set the dials you actually care about, and leave the rest centered, and the survey weighs your matches accordingly. We can't promise precision; but enjoy this heuristic to start a conversation for your future home. 01Region, if it matters
On July 21, 2003, a yellow musette bag brought down the best cyclist in the world on the slopes above Luz-Ardiden. Then a miracle happened. We have grown too cynical about our great but slightly tainted sports moments. The 2003 Tour de France was the centennial edition of the
Thomas Jefferson spent decades trying to grow French wine grapes at Monticello and never quite succeeded. The Virginia humidity defeated him, the phylloxera finished the job, and the project was quietly shelved as an admirable failure by one of history's most ambitious tinkerers. What is remarkable, standing in
In 1898, the great cities of the Western world sent their best urban planners to London for the first international planning conference in history. The crisis on the agenda was horse manure. New York City alone was producing 2.5 million pounds of it a day. The delegates were not
Sabermetrics rescued baseball from a culture of bad information. Then it went overboard, and today fans can't follow it. I was a sabermetrics evangelist before most people knew what sabermetrics was. 25 years ago I was reading old copies of Bill James's Baseball Abstracts, the self-
In the Exumas, one of the most pristine island chains on earth, developers bulldoze roads into paradise and walk away when the money runs out. There is a moment, if you're lucky enough to be on a boat working slowly up the Exumas chain in the Bahamas, when
While it now appears that the Strait of Hormuz will reopen, the impact from its closure will ripple across the world for years to come. One positive consequence of the United States' war in Iran is that the world is finally building its way out of one of the
The Chicago Bears are leaving one of the great urban sports settings in America for a dome in Indiana. They issued a statement calling it regional connectivity. It isn't. On June 5, 2026, the Chicago Bears voted to move to Hammond, Indiana. Then they issued a statement. It
See our accompanying feature on Al Duqm at New Cities Atlas. Fifteen years ago, Al Duqm was a fishing settlement on Oman's southeastern Arabian Sea coast with a population of around 6,000 people, a stretch of coastline and a geography that strategists had been quietly noting for