The White House UFC Fight and Trump’s Cage-Fight Governance
Donald Trump’s Ultimate Fighting Championship match at the White House is a harbinger of things to come.
8 Article(s) by: Jules Boykoff
Jules Boykoff is the author of Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics. He teaches politics at Pacific University in Oregon.
Israel and Russia Have No Place in the 2024 Paris Olympics
The International Olympic Committee has declined to curtail Israel’s involvement in the 2024 games and has placed half-hearted limits on Russia. The IOC claims it opposes the politicization of sport — but the Olympics are a historically political institution.
The Olympics Are Globally Mobile. Now the Anti-Olympics Movement Is Too.
Olympic Games host cities experience increased gentrification, police surveillance, and environmental destruction. Anti-Olympics activists hosted their second transnational summit in Paris last weekend to put an end to the games’ destruction.
The Beijing Winter Olympics Are a Political Disaster
Liberals and leftists agree: the International Olympic Committee is a blatantly hypocritical institution bent on prioritizing profits over people worldwide. Anti-Olympics activists can use this moment to fortify their long-standing efforts against the five-ring machine.
The Olympics Is a Racket
The world’s top athletes coming together in a spirit of friendly competition is a beautiful vision. But the Olympics have become a machine for the ruthless extraction of profit at the expense of working-class people.
Here We Go Again
The South Korea Olympics will kick off one year today. Will they face the same popular resistance as Rio?
The Olympic Calamity
It might not be captured on primetime Olympic coverage, but Brazilians are welcoming the Games with mass protest.
Let the Games Begin
The Rio Olympics are taking to the extreme the overblown promises and neoliberal development now typical of the games.