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The team is headed back to the World Cup final, but one lifelong fan has fallen out of love.

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

The architect behind a new initiative saw no path to passing a wealth tax through the legislature. Instead, he's taking it to California voters, sparking an expensive political fight.

From the daily newsletter: Joshua Rothman on the airplane-seat debate.

Mary Kay launched her eponymous cosmetics empire in 1963, just a month after the death of her fifth husband. A new biography interrogates how the entrepreneuse sold the idea of hustle to generations of women.

See today's Daily Cartoon.

Christopher Nolan's Homer adaptation presents a modern, relatable Odysseus, rather than trying to understand the ancient world on its own terms.

Lamine Yamal, the team's wonderkid, is thrilling, but discipline and patience have seen them through to the final.

Hint: Meryl Streep was in the movie adaptation.

Graham Platner rose to prominence partly through selfie videos that allowed him to provide confessional-style, improvisational-seeming direct addresses to his base--and he ended his campaign with one, too.