Was Shohei Ohtani Just a Dream?
Ohtani is in that tiny echelon of athletes who not only transcend a sport but transform it.Photograph by Ronald Martinez / Getty Even now, a month later, it has the quality of a dream. In the second game of a doubleheader, the pitcher from the day’s first game stands in the batter’s box. He is a right-handed hurler, perhaps the most unhittable pitcher in baseball. And he is a left-handed slugger,
The Family That Built an Empire of Pain
Andrew Kolodny, the co-director of the Opioid Policy Research Collaborative, at Brandeis University, has worked with hundreds of patients addicted to opioids. He told me that, though many fatal overdoses have resulted from opioids other than OxyContin, the crisis was initially precipitated by a shift in the culture of prescribing—a shift carefully engineered by Purdue. “If you look at the prescrib
From Japan, a Mascot for the Pandemic
“Should an epidemic come,” Amabié is said to have uttered, “draw me and show me to the people.” Then it sank beneath the waves.Art work by Shunsuke Satake Sometimes it seems as if Japan’s human population is outnumbered by cute characters. A few, such as Hello Kitty and Pikachu, have achieved international superstardom. But many more quietly populate the daily lives of citizens. Illustrated signs
How an Élite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
How an Élite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein New documents show that the M.I.T. Media Lab was aware of Epstein’s status as a convicted sex offender, and that Epstein directed contributions to the lab far exceeding the amounts M.I.T. has publicly admitted. Update: On Saturday, less than a day after the publication of this story, Joi Ito, the director of th
The Psychology of Inequality
What’s most damaging about being poor, Keith Payne argues, is feeling poor.Illustration by David Plunkert In 2016, the highest-paid employee of the State of California was Jim Mora, the head coach of U.C.L.A.’s football team. (He has since been fired.) That year, Mora pulled in $3.58 million. Coming in second, with a salary of $2.93 million, was Cuonzo Martin, at the time the head coach of the men
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