A single phone call from the Oval Office bent FIFA’s rules for one American player, drew a sharp rebuke from Europe’s football federation, and turned a global sporting festival into a case study in the abuse of power. On the field in Seattle, the score was 4–1. The score on American credibility abroad will take longer to add up.
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Hours after the Supreme Court rejected the president’s attempt to rewrite the 14th Amendment by executive fiat, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche promised a “booming industry” crackdown — on a phenomenon that peer-reviewed research pegs at fewer than one-third of one percent of American births. The gap between the rhetoric and the reality is not a policy quibble. It is a warning about who is running the country, and how.
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