The U.S. Is Not Hosting the 2022 World Cup
The United States of America will not host the 2022 F.I.F.A. World Cup. A voting committee in Zurich, Austria, just made the announcement. The U.S. was hoping to host its second World Cup in 2022, 18...
View ArticleAbstinence for Gays During the World Cup
On Monday, Sepp Blatter, perhaps the least politically correct president in the history of FIFA (and that’s saying something), cast a dubious show of support for gay soccer fans, but not before...
View ArticleThe 10 at 10
1. Elizabeth Taylor outlived her obituary writer. 2. The worst mother in the world. 3. Mom, I think grandma just tried to kill someone. 4. No Qatar, you shouldn’t need one of these. 5. Who supplies...
View ArticleUnited Arab Emirates Donates Millions to Help Rebuild America
Help for a community comes from the most unexpected place. In May, 2011, the town of Joplin, Missouri, was destroyed by a tornado that was over a mile wide. The tornado killed 161 people, destroyed 6...
View ArticleDead Men Can’t Cheer
The 2022 World Cup dead body count begins. —- Twelve workers will die each week from now until the first game begins at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. That figure was formed by the International Trade...
View ArticleHuMANitarianism: Where Are the Men in Aid?
James Plunkett wonders why there are so few men working at the grassroots levels of NGOs. In 2012 I traveled to the town of Gulu in northern Uganda, home of the notorious violence of the Lord’s...
View ArticleFIFA’s Dark Side
As the international football organization prepares for the World Cup in Brazil next year, riots in that country and reports of conditions amounting to modern-day slavery for the workers helping Qatar...
View ArticleOur Failed Embargo Against Cuba
There are few better examples of failed American foreign policy than our trade embargo against Cuba. Cuba is back in the news after President Obama caused quite the stir yesterday when it came out...
View ArticleWorst Moment in Sports, 2013
Unfortunately, sports’ worst in 2013 included terrorism, rape, and murder. Liam Day runs down the ugly list. 2013 was not sport’s best year. Marked by tragedy, murder, rape, and a league and a network...
View ArticleQatar Has Every Reason to Enforce New Workers Charter
Migrant workers make up about 88% of Qatar’s 1.9 million residents. It’s about time their basic rights are taken seriously. — By Kamel Mellahi, University of Warwick Qatar has just introduced a...
View ArticleWhy FIFA Needs to Move the 2022 World Cup From Qatar
Marco Cerino on why The 2022 World Cup in Qatar is a bad, bad move from FIFA. _______ Four years ago, FIFA awarded the 2022 World Cup to the Middle East nation of Qatar… to the surprise and protest...
View ArticleThe U.S. Is Not Hosting the 2022 World Cup
The United States of America will not host the 2022 F.I.F.A. World Cup.A voting committee in Zurich, Austria, just made the announcement. The U.S. was hoping to host its second World Cup in 2022, 18...
View ArticleAbstinence for Gays During the World Cup
On Monday, Sepp Blatter, perhaps the least politically correct president in the history of FIFA (and that’s saying something), cast a dubious show of support for gay soccer fans, but not before...
View ArticleThe 10 at 10
1. Elizabeth Taylor outlived her obituary writer.2. The worst mother in the world.3. Mom, I think grandma just tried to kill someone.4. No Qatar, you shouldn’t need one of these.5. Who supplies the...
View ArticleUnited Arab Emirates Donates Millions to Help Rebuild America
Help for a community comes from the most unexpected place.In May, 2011, the town of Joplin, Missouri, was destroyed by a tornado that was over a mile wide. The tornado killed 161 people, destroyed 6...
View ArticleDead Men Can’t Cheer
The 2022 World Cup dead body count begins.—-Twelve workers will die each week from now until the first game begins at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.That figure was formed by the International Trade...
View ArticleHuMANitarianism: Where Are the Men in Aid?
James Plunkett wonders why there are so few men working at the grassroots levels of NGOs.In 2012 I traveled to the town of Gulu in northern Uganda, home of the notorious violence of the Lord’s...
View ArticleFIFA’s Dark Side
As the international football organization prepares for the World Cup in Brazil next year, riots in that country and reports of conditions amounting to modern-day slavery for the workers helping Qatar...
View ArticleOur Failed Embargo Against Cuba
There are few better examples of failed American foreign policy than our trade embargo against Cuba.Cuba is back in the news after President Obama caused quite the stir yesterday when it came out that...
View ArticleWorst Moment in Sports, 2013
Unfortunately, sports’ worst in 2013 included terrorism, rape, and murder. Liam Day runs down the ugly list.2013 was not sport’s best year. Marked by tragedy, murder, rape, and a league and a network...
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