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English Premier League soccer club Newcastle United was once a titan in English soccer, especially in the 1990s. However, it also experienced a long period of bad performances, which ultimately saw it fall from the top tier of the league in 2016. Res...

Sportswashing: The Struggle for Ethical Ownership

English Premier League soccer club Newcastle United was once a titan in English soccer, especially in the 1990s. However, it also experienced a long period of bad performances, which ultimately saw it fall from the top tier of the league in 2016. Res...

On July 15, 2022, Air Force One landed on the baking tarmac in Jeddah. Despite campaign promises to treat Saudi Arabia as a “pariah,” President Biden, spurred by high oil prices, came to the Kingdom on bended knee to plead for a production hike. ...

China’s New Middle East

On July 15, 2022, Air Force One landed on the baking tarmac in Jeddah. Despite campaign promises to treat Saudi Arabia as a “pariah,” President Biden, spurred by high oil prices, came to the Kingdom on bended knee to plead for a production hike. ...

In an anonymous statement to the United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), an Egyptian woman described in painful detail her family’s reaction to her contracting HIV: They ostracized her, beat her, and withheld her inheritance. In an attem...

A Spreading STIgma

In an anonymous statement to the United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), an Egyptian woman described in painful detail her family’s reaction to her contracting HIV: They ostracized her, beat her, and withheld her inheritance. In an attem...

The ball snakes from left to right, slicing across the glossy gym floor as our opponents close in on the goal. With five minutes left in the game, they are sharp-set on breaking the tie. And, unfortunately for my team, their odds look pretty good.&nb...

Soccer Offers a Shot at a Bigger Goal

The ball snakes from left to right, slicing across the glossy gym floor as our opponents close in on the goal. With five minutes left in the game, they are sharp-set on breaking the tie. And, unfortunately for my team, their odds look pretty good.&nb...

In 1993, the United States launched a series of raids on Mogadishu, Somalia so disastrous and publicly humiliating that they would redefine presidential decision-making for the next decade. Now, in the wake of America’s exit from Afghanistan, a...

Somalia Syndrome

In 1993, the United States launched a series of raids on Mogadishu, Somalia so disastrous and publicly humiliating that they would redefine presidential decision-making for the next decade. Now, in the wake of America’s exit from Afghanistan, a...

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Take ‘The Line’—a megacity under construction with two parallel skyscrapers stretching 170 kilometers horizontally through the Arabian desert. Or ‘Hyperloop’—Elon Musk’s proposed high-speed tran...

Ego, ENLARGED

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Take ‘The Line’—a megacity under construction with two parallel skyscrapers stretching 170 kilometers horizontally through the Arabian desert. Or ‘Hyperloop’—Elon Musk’s proposed high-speed tran...