The Olympic boxing controversy wasn’t about protecting athletes
Sex-segregated sports opens the door to sex testing.
At the Olympics, it’s hard to sideline politics
A short history of political protests, boycotts, and IOC bans.
Americans aren’t asking for transgender sports bans. So why pass them?
Conservative Republicans are pushing a policy agenda.
Olympic officials resisted pressure to ban Iran from the Tokyo Games
In these 9 cases, sporting authorities tried to ban a country from international competition.
Nobody can go to the Tokyo Olympics. So why is the government going ahead with them?
The political stakes are high, as Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga must face voters in a general election this fall
Americans are divided over boycotting the 2022 Beijing Olympics. Here’s the data.
Many Americans later regretted the decision not to participate in the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics
Kuwait’s leader has died. The royals are now fighting over who will be crown prince.
The next-generation leaders have a history of feuding among themselves
The Trump administration sanctioned China for detaining 1 million Uighurs. Here’s what Americans think.
They approve of sanctions but don’t want a war
Taiwan votes on 10 referendums this week. Here’s what you need to know.
[caption id="attachment_80530" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen delivered a
The next ‘Korea problem’ may be about the growing identity divide on the peninsula
[caption id="attachment_69483" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Seated behind North Korea’s cheerleaders at
Most nations going to the Olympics won’t bring home a medal. Here’s why they compete anyway.
Sending a delegation to the Olympics builds national identity.
What Russia’s Olympic ban means for Vladimir Putin
Russia is the first country in the history of the
How might sanctions affect Russia?
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="606" special="POOL PHOTO"] Secretary of State John
The Politics of Olympic Risk
In introducing our man-on-the-street reporting from the 2012 London Olympics,
Politics Everywhere: Chicago’s ill-fated Olympics bid
Amid all the media blathering about why the 2016 Olympics
Dark Financial Clouds Over Professional Sports
A couple of days ago I put up a tongue-in-cheek