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LIV Golf
September 27, 2023
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The Politics of Everything
Will Women’s Tennis Cross the Saudi Rubicon?
In recent years, Saudi Arabia has been spending billions on professional sports, buying up players, teams, and leagues worldwide. Is women’s tennis—with its storied history of fighting for equality and social justice—next?
July 27, 2023
Magazine
Alex Shephard
Saudi Arabia’s Dizzying Scheme to Devour the Sports World
The kingdom’s insatiable appetite and bottomless riches are remaking global culture.
July 11, 2023
Prem Thakker
Ron Johnson: “I Have the Deepest Sympathy for 9/11 Families … BUT”
The Republican senator does not care about Saudi Arabia’s sportswashing campaign with LIV Golf.
June 16, 2023
Timothy Noah
Yet Another Golf Scandal: The Woefully Undertaxed Site of This Year’s U.S. Open
The Saudis aren’t golf’s only problem. The Los Angeles Country Club shouldn’t even exist.
June 7, 2023
Tori Otten
Saudi Arabia’s Sportswashing With the PGA-LIV Golf Tour Merger Isn’t a Done Deal
Here are the ten people who could stop this merger, if they wanted to.
June 6, 2023
Alex Shephard
The PGA Bends the Knee to Saudi Arabia
The lesson from the LIV Golf takeover of pro golf is that sportswashing works.
October 14, 2022
Alex Shephard
Will World Cup Reporters Let Qatar Get Away With Its Human Rights Abuses?
As Saudi Arabia’s takeover of English soccer club Newcastle proves, the media is highly susceptible to sportswashing by corrupt regimes.
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