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Team USA’s 100-78 thumping of Spain on Tuesday produced two storylines. One was Carmelo Anthony’s huge game, which I addressed in this story. The other was Spain’s reluctance to play big men Pau Gasol and Serge Ibaka together for any...

We asked our contributors to share the best book they read this month. We’ve got fiction, nonfiction, YA, memoir, and more. Some are old, some are new, and some aren’t even out yet. Enjoy, and please tell us about the highlight of your reading...

Good Morning! So, I promised I’d try to avoid politics today even though that’s very difficult given our proximity to the elections and the fact that one of the candidates is uniquely unfit for office.  I’m trying to avoid it as much as possible but...

    Strange tongues comfort me;     Darkened rooms calm me down.     Make overtures to your insanity…     Good to have friends around.     —‘Strange Tongues’ by Vivian Stanshall...

George Gurley 1987-1989 The Observer is born. I was still in college. In the summer I interned at CV (Career Vision) magazine, which was started by my then-stepfather, Shelby Bryan, and Marian Salzman, the editor in chief. I fact-checked and interviewed...