FIFA has accused UEFA of running a “misinformation campaign” as part of its legal bid to obtain internal World Cup documents. On its face, that headline sounds like something from a corporate espionage novel, not a story about the beautiful game. But this is football in the twenty-first century, where the sport is played as much in courtrooms and boardrooms as it is on green grass. FIFA, the global governing body, and UEFA, the ruling body of European football, are supposed to be partners in the same family. They are meant to share a common purpose: helping football grow, protecting…

In Kenya’s coastal counties of Lamu and Kwale, where the Indian Ocean breeze meets smallholder farms and quiet fishing villages, the conversation about genetically modified organisms is not taking place in sterile boardrooms or academic conferences. It is happening under acacia trees, in community halls, on dusty roadside paths, and even along the beach, where farmers, traders, and local leaders are trying to understand a technology that has been both praised as an answer to hunger and feared as a threat to health, culture, and the environment. In late September, the National Biosafety Authority, or NBA, arrived in these communities…