Is Democracy a Threat to the World Cup?
By Tom Taylor, Columnist of The Stanford Daily and TTWMES Guest Columnist
When FIFA chose the hosts for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups it picked the two least democratic countries from the list of bidding nations. Qatar is an absolute monarchy, and Russia, while technically a democracy, is virtually a one-party state.
With such infinite power it is hard to…
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