Muslims Fumble on Team Names

One of the stranger features of this debate is the insistence that critics are reacting to rumors or bad-faith interpretations. That might have been plausible before the text was released. It is much harder to argue now that the document is public.

Almost overnight, Yair Golan transformed from a retired general into one of the most talked-about politicians in Israel.

Beyond the on-field excitement of global soccer lies a deeper opportunity: to draw hard-earned lessons from the nations that have long dominated the beautiful game.

America is not modern Israel’s creator, and Israel is not America’s dependent. The two nations have influenced one another and benefited from one another, but the deepest roots of that relationship predate them both.

Vance is not the first political leader to lose his temper because somebody, somewhere, criticized a policy of his. And it’s not the first time the vice president has tried to bully an American ally through the tactic of public shaming.