Border Security Theatrics Are Rising At History’s Stupidest World Cup (opens in new tab)

For a World Cup host nation, the soccer is largely incidental. Even more obviously disposable are soaring ideas of bringing the international community together in a peaceful celebration of yadda yadda. In the case of the United States under the Trump administration, the point of hosting a World Cup is security theater. The nation's ideals have been whittled all the way down to the most petty shit imaginable: Hosting a World Cup forces the world to come to us when most would rather not, force...