Outside the Beltway

FIFA’s President surprised everyone today by resigning, but he’s likely to stay in power for as long as another ten months.

More problems for the planned 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Africans are rallying around the Ghanaian World Cup team, putting aside stark differences. Should we be surprised?

The federation governing international soccer joins a long list of international institutions — NATO, the G-8, the UN Security Council, and the EU come readily to mind — that need to be brought into the 21st century.