Louisa Thomas

Pitchers like Jacob Misiorowski are throwing harder than ever, a result of modern baseball's pitching development. But what does that kind of velocity do to the human arm?

Four years ago, her country went to war. Then she became a mother. She returned to tennis a different player.

San Antonio’s Game Seven victory against Oklahoma City announced the arrival of the N.B.A.’s most remarkable new superstar in years, Victor Wembanyama.

A recording from David Remnick's live video

Mikal Bridges and a cast of versatile role players have helped carry New York to a 2–0 lead in the N.B.A. Finals.

A recording from David Remnick's live video

On the Spurs suddenly going cold in the second half, the Knicks erasing a twenty-nine-point deficit, and the miracle of OG Anunoby.

The 2026 World Cup’s approach has felt strangely muted, and the U.S. team has had a rough few years. Then the games began.

The power of the diaspora is the story of this World Cup—and the U.S. team, which beat Australia 2–0 on Friday, embodies it as well as anyone.

The Fourteenth Amendment was intended to right a wrong, not to beat Paraguay and Australia on the pitch—but then, American history is a long succession of accidents that lead to choices that, in retrospect, come to manifest as destiny. Here is one: when Florence Balogun, a Nigerian who lived in London, visited New York twenty-five years ago while heavily pregnant, airline staff refused to let her on the plane home, and so Folarin Balogun was born in Brooklyn. He was not even two months old when he went home to the United Kingdom—with American citizenship as his birthright.