Matthew Levitt
Was the Taj Mahal built out of love … or guilt?
The well-known story of the Taj Mahal is that a bereft emperor built it to honor his wife, who died in childbirth. But a new play in India suggests otherwise. In Brazil, some are analyzing the more prosaic plot lines that played out in Thursday’s US-Germany World Cup match. And a young Jewish writer joins a gay pilgrimage to Israel, in today’s Global Scan.
