The sheikh don’t like it
The weekend despatch: The question of motive behind the sham deals of one of global football’s richest clubs. The rising sea off California. + What’s happening in Eau Claire, Wisconsin?
In the air
- Why would the owners of Manchester City Football Club risk everything to cheat for years “on an industrial scale”? Standpoints from Sarath K. Ganji, Justin Callais, and Miranda Patrucić.
From the files
- What do Middle Eastern states want with European football clubs? Ganji on autocratic governments’ ambitious move into the global game.
- What exactly is the problem here? Callais on the ambiguities of corruption.
- Why do dictators keep disrupting so many other countries? Patrucić on what China and Russia are doing in neighboring nations, developing states, and the world’s most powerful democracies.
Feature
- Why does Europe run on American tech? Filippo Blancato on a bargain that seemed to make sense at the time.
Books
- Who cares about rising temperatures? Alexander F. Gazmararian and Helen V. Milner, Climate Fault Lines: The New Political Economy of a Warming World.
Music
- What’s happening in Eau Claire, Wisconsin?
- & New tracks from Gash, Spacemoth, Justin Strauss, Gilla Band, & Queens of the Stone Age.
+ Weather report
- A mass of warm water the size of a small country reaches California this week, keeping the ocean a foot higher until spring …
