The Moroccan team may have lost its semifinal World Cup game, but it still made history.
The French star player has already proved that he’s one of the best in the history of the game.
The captain of the U.S. soccer team is the latest in a long line of sports stars who have had to wrestle with a complex legacy on the world stage.
Holiday-season play makes this World Cup a family affair.
In this episode of Radio Atlantic, the staff writer Clint Smith talks about the complicated feelings he has for soccer, and which teams and players shaped his love of the sport.
When I watch the World Cup, I’m celebrating not what this country is, but what it can be.
America still can’t figure out how to memorialize the sins of our history. What can we learn from Germany?
I cannot hear that word, used in that way, without thinking about violence.
I spent last week mourning those murdered in Buffalo. I will spend this week mourning children murdered at school.
The nation won its first-ever Africa Cup of Nations, giving Senegalese people the world over something to celebrate.
What a photographer found when he trained his camera on his own family
In Maryland, a memorial for two lynching victims reveals how America is grappling with its history of racial terror.
The poet Amanda Gorman discusses her new collection, Call Us What We Carry, and how the last year has brought new urgency to her writing.
The number is so enormous that we risk becoming numb to its implications.
It’s time Henry Montgomery came home.
I don’t know how long the power will be out in New Orleans. But I know more storms are coming.
States make millions off phone-call fees from incarcerated people, but the cost can be even higher for their families.
The squad has transformed culturally since the last time the English were champions. I’m rooting for the future it represents.
This year’s tournament has been unlike any I’ve ever witnessed, a reminder that when soccer fans enter a stadium, it becomes a church.
For some Americans, history isn’t the story of what actually happened; it’s the story they want to believe.