Director Ang Lee talks about the varying interpretations of his Oscar-nominated film
Bret Stephens on BP and Gadhafi, Steven Pearlstein on Obama and big business, and more
Yves Smith and Rob Parenteau on profits hurting capitalism, Kathryn Jean Lopez on women in politics, and more
Reactions to another slain sports giant
Charles Krauthammer on terror and Islamism, Peggy Noonan on a cold man's warm words, and more
Karl Rove on Obama's fiscal road to gell, Anne Applebaum on Russia's old spy tricks and more
As free agency draws near, the top runners are getting desperate
Why you won't be seeing the Williams sisters and other top players in the finals
Ruth Marcus on the unhinged right, David Wise on the spy who came out to the suburbs and more
David Ignatius on reconciling with the Taliban, Stanley Fish on student evaluations, and more
Ronald Brownstein on the sinking ship of state, Joan Wickersham on marital shibboleths and more
Watching exorbitantly overpaid people dwell in mediocrity is an American sports fan's lot in life. But it doesn't have to be. Enter relegation: a multi-tiered system in which the bottom teams get demoted to a lesser league, and their spots are filled by the lesser league's top teams. Already thriving in many of Europe's professional soccer associations, relegation makes every game count; just as the best teams must win to reach the top, the worst must win to escape the bottom.
Wimbledon's record-breaking match has more than one winner
David Broder on campaign finance, Joe Klein on Petraeus's way forward and more
Holman Jenkins on blowout preventers, Glenn Greenwald on the causes and effects of the War on Terror, and more
Birth control, lithium, and those damn vuvuzelas
David Ignatius on Afghanistan and trade partnerships, Nancy Bauer on lady power, and more