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As well as co-hosting the World Cup in 2026, more and more people in America are watching soccer, and spending on football media rights is rising
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The World Cup is wonderful. It could be even better

America’s bellicosity combined with FIFA’s dysfunctionality spells trouble, reckon the Soccernomics podcasters

Why monoculture events like the World Cup are becoming the exception

Being rich helps, but being open to immigration works best of all

A local-content boom is rewriting the rules of entertainment—and of soft power

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist