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Tzuhsun Hsu/Flickr How Taiwan Is Curbing Children's Daily Technology Exposure
Parents in the Asian country are now legally required to limit their kids' screen time.
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Luke MacGregor/Reuters The Gold Lurking in America's Sewers
Every year, millions of dollars' worth of precious metals goes to waste underneath U.S. cities.
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Jon Super/AP/The Atlantic Should a Convicted Rapist Be Allowed to Play Professional Soccer?
English teams are citing commercial concerns for their reluctance to let former striker Ched Evans back on the field.
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EpicSponge/YouTube When Will Americans Embrace Snooker?
The billiards-like game from the UK is gaining a following worldwide, but it's unclear whether stateside enthusiasts can make Americans take interest.
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Marianne Bevis/Flickr How Investors Are Changing Pro Tennis
Players are traveling more for new exhibition matches, offering them less downtime before major tournaments.
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Ubisoft Let Them Play Assassin's Creed?
With sympathetic noblemen and bloodthirsty common folk, the French Revolution-set Unity is re-igniting an historic debate over the period's heroes and villains.
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Kathy Willens/AP The Symbolism in Jay-Z's Choice of Champagne
When the rapper dropped Cristal for Armand de Brignac, he was sending a message that his business would go to a brand that appreciates hip hop.
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Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters The 'Berlin Walls' That Are Still Standing
Twenty-five years after East and West Germany reunited, barriers around the world continue to separate neighbors.
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Peter Nicholls/Reuters Still Paying World War I Debt, 100 Years Later
The enduring financial legacy of a century-old conflict
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Anvar Ilyasov/AP FIFA's Latest World Cup Controversy: The Weather
Midnight matches? Flying robot clouds? The organization's suggestions for dealing with Qatar's desert climate in 2022 have been at once creative and preposterous.
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Ina Fassbender/Reuters English Soccer's Bid to Conquer the World
The Premier League may add a week of global touring to its teams' schedules, but doing so could alienate fans at home and exhaust star players.
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Reuters The Best World Cup Ever?
By a lot of measures, it's been an unusually exciting, convention-defying tournament.
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Reuters/Anis Mili Why Disney Can Risk Rian Johnson Helming a Star Wars Film
By enlisting relatively obscure directors and spinning off cult characters, the studio is taking a Marvel-style approach to the galaxy far, far away.
