Dreams of a soccer-themed moment of global solidarity are just fanfics, completely untethered to reality
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Dreams of a soccer-themed moment of global solidarity are just fanfics, completely untethered to reality
Executive Editor
Published
February 1, 2026 6:45AM (EST)
Unprecedented times call for previously unthinkable conversations when it comes to the US-shaped problem
The US president's desire to claim Greenland has prompted political figures to raise the possibility of national football teams…
There is a beauty and an ugliness in how the politics becomes background noise to action on the pitch
Donald Trump thought he’d miss out on the chance to stride the globe’s biggest sporting stage, lamenting in 2018, when the US won…
Even White House interference and Fifa’s greed cannot spoil the celebrations. At last, an arena in which multiculturalism…
The president’s call to the head of FIFA underscores that he has yet to find an area of American, or even global, life where he…
