Playing on the Edge by Steve CollConcussions and corruption ruined professional boxing. Can we now say that they’re ruining the N.F.L?There is pageantry within the N.F.L.—excess, shamelessness, rawness, and a struggle for control by League overseers in the face of many tendencies toward anarchy—that has made the League more successful than any other American professional sport. At the same time, it is more imperilled. This has been a season of sold-out stadiums and high cable ratings. But it may also be remembered as the beginning of the end—the season in which the League’s balance sheet of accumulating liabilities became fully apparent.

What Mexico's Election Means for the Drug War In recent years, U.S.-Mexico security cooperation has been strikingly effective, in part because of close individual relationships between officials on both sides of the border. But each of the candidates in Mexico’s presidential election has promised to shift the country’s focus from stopping the drug trade to fighting crime, which will not sit well with Washington.

A Village Person Tests the Copyright Law“Victor Willis does not speak French, so he could not have translated anything, and I dare you to go to Paris and find a Y.M.C.A.”

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