MBS and Saudi Arabia Care So Much About Golf

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Golf is a great way to bring people together and have them forget about heinous human rights violations. MBS has been having plays for media, for Hollywood, for other really important things that you and I consume almost every day. Saudi Arabia threw this thing called the public investment fund, which is the sovereign wealth vehicle. You might call it a half trillion dollar piggy bank of the Saudi Crown Prince.

The PGA Tour wanted nothing to do with a rival Saudi-funded golf tour, but like Silicon Valley and the White House, it couldn’t resist the Kingdom’s influence. A sports guy (Rick Maese of the Washington Post) and a foreign policy guy (Jonathan Guyer of Vox) explain.

This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Michael Raphael, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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