Gianni Infantino has faced widespread calls to resign amidst his controversial proposals for the future of the FIFA World Cup. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime In preparation for the 2030 World Cup, FIFA President Gianni Infantino has explored several proposals to commemorate the championship’s centennial. These included an expansion to 64 teams for the tournament and the hosting of three matches in South America away from the main host countries. But most controversially, he proposed to sell stakes in a for-profit operational subsidiary for the World Cup, which received massive backlash from continental and national soccer federations. FIFA,…

The 2028 Olympics will be hosted in Los Angeles, only two years after the city hosted FIFA World Cup matches. The FIFA World Cup may be long over, but America’s commitment to hosting international athletic events will not for another two years due to the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics. But this next global championship may be the breaking point for the city. Every single Olympic Tournament in the past 60 years has gone over budget, often by billions of dollars in the 21st century. And during that time period, returns on investment have worsened for host cities due to…

After decades of building Microsoft, Bill Gates is the top owner of farmland in the United States today. With a net worth of over 100 billion dollars, William Henry Gates III has cemented his legacy as one of America’s most historically important businessmen, especially in the technological sector. As a co-founder of Microsoft with Paul Allen, Gates was largely responsible for the boom of the production and usage of personal computers in the late 20th century. This led to Microsoft dominating the world of technology in the 1990s, which came with its own controversy. Microsoft took aggressive, corrupt, and often…

Each FIFA World Cup costs billions of dollars to host, but who funds it? Despite FIFA’s official classification as a nonprofit by Switzerland, it routinely sits on reserves of billions of dollars, which are mainly the result of revenue streams from global championships. However, instead of covering the security or infrastructure costs required for tournaments, FIFA makes local taxpayers in those cities pay the bill. Moreover, despite temporary tourism booms, increases in sales tax revenue are not enough to offset the hundreds of millions of dollars in costs to host cities each year. To make budgetary matters worse, FIFA requires…

Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, set strict rules on his kids’ technology use. In the 21st century, digital technology is an essential complement to human workers in virtually every industry. To prepare the children of today for the jobs of tomorrow, schools have increasingly adopted screen-based devices for their students, often starting in lower grade levels. As a result, schools have largely given assignments to students online, both during and outside of school hours. Even when minors are not at school, recreational screen time dominates their day, often spent on social media websites. And, with the rise of artificial intelligence…

As the world’s most popular sports tournament comes to a close, fans are already eager for the next soccer World Cup. The next one will be hosted in Spain, Portugal, and Morocco, with three additional special matches being held in Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay to mark the tournament’s 100th anniversary. These countries have an extensive history and culture with the sport, with some of the world’s best players and most famous soccer stadiums to accommodate fans. But in stark contrast, the one eight years from now will be hosted in Saudi Arabia, whose national team’s performance has been historically dull…

The World Cup is supposed to be a sporting event for spectators from all cultures and countries of the world to have fun, free from politics and corruption (Wikimedia Commons). As the 2026 FIFA World Cup wraps up this month, significant allegations of corruption have emerged towards the governing body of the world’s favorite sport over several instances in its tournament this year. These include the influence of President Donald Trump in overturning Folarin Balogun’s red card, arbitrary travel bans on referees, and the prohibition of Lion and Sun Iranian Flags. But stories like these are by no means new;…

U.S. leftists have a choice to make: protect the working class, or allow mass immigration to gut it. In the early 20th century, there was a surge of immigration from the less affluent Southern and Eastern European countries, such as Italy and Imperial Russia. Their immigration completely changed the demographics of major cities like New York and Chicago. Many of these immigrants were fleeing poverty and starvation in their home countries, bringing few belongings and little cash with them. Consequently, the surplus of immigrant laborers in entry-level, low-skilled professions forced heritage Americans into an increasingly competitive labor market. To remedy…

Over four years ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This followed eight years of conflict between the Ukrainian government and Russian proxy forces, as well as the annexation of Crimea in 2014, which drew massive international outrage. In response to Putin’s actions, Russia was sanctioned economically, diplomatically isolated and culturally shamed through banning Russian athletes from the Olympics. But since 2022, this conflict has lost the world’s attention due to wars in Israel, Gaza, Sudan and Iran. Despite Russia’s actions, a close look at Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky’s motivations for continuing the war—which has been…

How did India’s Cobra Problem Spiral Out of Hand? In 19th century India under the British Raj, cities were ravaged by cobras which were especially troublesome for the British overlords. To combat this, they offered the local Indian populace bounties for each cobra killed, which could be proven by handing in a corpse of the venomous creature. However, it did not take long for the local Indian communities to realize that they could breed the venomous snakes faster than their natural rate, kill a few of their offspring while leaving enough to reproduce, collect the bounties, and repeat as long…