Fifa’s decision to allow the U.S. star striker to play against Belgium is in clear breach of the association’s rules.

What emerges it not the Washington of postcards or political mythology, but a richer and more nuanced capital.

There aren’t many big-name pop music performers who go on to become topnotch producers. Trent Reznor, Dr. Dre, Brian Eno, Dan ...

Robin Hood dies. A summer laugh-fest, this ain’t. For those who don’t fully recall the 15th-century legend, an English farmer ...

This time around, they remind us that Randy Newman’s iconic Toy Story anthem, “You’ve Got a Friend in Me,” still rings true, even as our understanding of friendship continues to evolve. For Andy, ...

Later my father put on a gray sweater. We ate chili by a fire. We talked about baseball. My father smiled. He was growing a beard. One day he would be smiling in the Denver Airport of Death, but today ...

On a sweltering summer day in 2013, a single tweet from Tahrir Square sparked a global conversation. Armed with nothing but smartphones, Egyptian protesters captured the raw energy of a movement that ...

In modern society's controversies, few tiles glimmer with as complex a spectrum as those involving sex scandals. We love them and hate them, and we can’t get enough of them. Salacious by nature ...

Are they a natural consequence of aging, of intellectual maturity, or the results of an ill-spent life? George Clooney, as internationally famous actor Jay Kelly, confronts this very issue in Jay ...

Charlie Chaplin made audiences laugh, but he also made us feel. His films often balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fine line between sentiment and sentimentality.” ...

The literary reputations of many mid-20th century American male writers appear to be, perhaps inevitably, in decline. Among those are several who share the same first name—John O’Hara, John Barth, ...

Why are we loyal to a person, a cause, an idea? A complex concept, to be sure, especially for such a simplistic time-killer as In the Grey, the latest release from director Guy Ritchie. Ritchie ...