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The Brazil-Haiti match that changed the world

Brazil has won a record five World Cups, but the most important match it has ever played may have been an exhibition match against...

Wealth correlation with soccer ability?

POLITICO has been crunching the numbers to see how all 48 of this year’s World Cup participants rank in several other off-field categories, which...

Here’s what can come next with climate-change fever finally breaking

Fewer and fewer people are panicking about the climate "catastrophe." Gallup's latest survey of the world's most important problems found that the median share of...

Trump has fallen for the same false Iran promises as Obama

Less than three months ago, Donald Trump was mocking the 2015 deal Barack Obama made with Iran that cleared the regime’s path to a...

My Nazi lover: Inside the SPLC’s anti-hate racket

"Sleeping with the enemy" is pretty much as compromised as any crusader can get.

With Strait of Hormuz held hostage, Trump’s Iran deal is worse than Obama’s

As he prepared to sign his “memorandum of understanding” with the Islamic dictatorship of Iran, President Trump again insisted that his deal was much...

In Canberra, disappointment

CANBERRA — It was disappointment from start to finish around the USA vs. Australia match in the Bush Capital, won comfortably by the American...

The UK’s World Cup diplomatic mullet

While Boston and Dallas have been taken over by marauding Scotland and England fans, Washington, D.C., this week welcomed a (slightly) more sedate British...

Campaigns get in the game

You don't have to rely on The Discourse to know whether soccer is finally being embraced by America. Political ad spending targeted to catch...

Obama’s Irrelevance

‘He has taken a complete back seat in an era that his own co-partisans define as a hinge point on the future of the...

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