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Unheralded and autonomous

NIL money has turned recruiting into a financial arms race, where loyalty fades and players follow whoever writes the biggest check.

Importing chaos: The paradox of nation building

Did anyone in the State Department truly think an Islamic theocracy could be remade into a Western democracy? The idea was always laughable.
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It’s snow joke

Nothing says “global warming” quite like shoveling heavy, wet snow in the wee hours of a subfreezing morning weeks before the winter solstice begins.

The highway’s hidden hazards

America’s highways, already a patchwork of potholes and billboards, face a deeper crisis in illegal drivers.

Penny for your thoughts

The curtain fell quietly on a 232-year tradition as the U.S. Mint struck the last penny in Philadelphia. This ended one of the longest runs in American history.

The $40 million mulligan

Virginia Tech drew attention by hiring James Franklin as its new coach, a surprising move given he was fired just over a month ago.

The Dukes’ dark horse

In the grand bazaar of college football the true victors are the coaches who have engineered turnarounds at schools not traditionally known for gridiron glory.

The anti-wealth manifesto

Twenty-four years after 9/11, New York City elected a 34-year-old whose biography reads like a Marxist coming-of-age novel with a Brooklyn rewrite.