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  12 Apr 2026

  The World’s Game, America’s Gates: Foreign Policy, the World Cup, and Who Gets Left Outside

  Every four years, FIFA promises the same thing: football unites the world. It is a beautiful slogan, and it occasionally comes close to being true. Then the politics show up. The 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup (co-hosted by the United States, Canada, and Mexico) is supposed to be the largest sporting event in human history,…