The U.S. Surgeon General declared loneliness a public health epidemic in 2023. Two years later, the industry that rushed to monetize that declaration is settling lawsuits over teenage suicides, being hauled before Senate subcom…
FIFA's own economists put the number at $40.9 billion in global economic impact. Natixis, doing the actual arithmetic, landed somewhere between 0.05% and 0.2% of host-nation GDP — figures so modest they fall below statistic…
U.S. outdoor soccer hit 16.8 million participants in 2025 — an all-time high, the largest single-year gain in fifteen years of recorded data — and the tournament that is supposed to deliver the watershed moment has not even kic…
Players Who Said No to the World Cup — And Why the Question Won't Go Away Seven men with rifles entered Johan Cruyff's Barcelona apartment in September 1977. They tied him up. They tied up his wife. His children were in…
