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This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

Read more Look Closer: Pieter De Hooch\u2019s Puzzle Box<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

One of my favorite parts of the World Cup is asking people a deceptively simple question: What team are you rooting for?<\/p>\n

In some cases the answer is obvious, but in many it isn\u2019t. I always root for Colombia, where I am from. Yet I live in the United States. My father is Mexican. My grandfather is Argentinian. When Colombia was eliminated, I didn\u2019t stop watching\u2014I simply found myself cheering for someone else. My loyalties don\u2019t compete; they accumulate.<\/p>\n

The World Cup asks us to pick a team, but in doing so, it reveals that identity is rarely confined to a single flag. People cheer for the place where they grew up, where their parents came from, where they studied abroad, or simply for a player they admire or an underdog that captures their attention.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an unexpected kind of unity. The tournament is organized around national competition, but it reminds us how interconnected those nations really are. For all of the flags and rivalries, the World Cup has a remarkable way of reminding us how much we share.<\/p>\n

Read more America\u2019s Homegrown-Parasite Problem<\/a><\/p>\n

On Sports and Unity<\/strong><\/p>\n

How to Cheer for America<\/p>\n

By Clint Smith<\/i><\/p>\n

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When I watch the World Cup, I\u2019m celebrating not what this country is, but what it can be. (From 2022<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Something Incredible Every Single Game<\/p>\n

By Charlie Warzel<\/i><\/p>\n

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Inside America\u2019s World Cup fever dream<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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How the World Cup Explains the World<\/p>\n

By Hanna Rosin<\/i><\/p>\n

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Hanna Rosin talks with the Atlantic <\/em>staff writer Franklin Foer, the author of How Soccer Explains the World<\/em>, about how this year\u2019s World Cup displays a gentler form of nationalism that we haven\u2019t seen in a while.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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