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    man of tomorrow

    Man of Tomorrow: A Species Still Learning to Tie Its Own Shoelaces By Our World-Weary Correspondent in Residence Geneva – While the rest of us were doom-scrolling through inflation charts and wondering whether our passports will expire before the next coup, the United Nations quietly unveiled its latest white paper: “The Man of Tomorrow: A…

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    brandi carlile

    From the Ruins of the American Empire, a Six-Stringed Consolation Prize Dave’s Locker Foreign Desk | 12 June 2025 Paris—It is 2 a.m. on the Rive Gauche and the bistros have finally run out of rosé. Somewhere between a tab of questionable MDMA and a heated debate on whether NATO still exists, a busker breaks…

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    marvel angela

    Marvel’s Angela: How a Forgotten Spawn Sidekick Quietly Conquered the Global Imagination By A. S. de Winter, International Cultural Correspondent Somewhere between a NATO summit and the latest crypto scandal, the planet’s collective id decided that what it really needed was a six-foot-tall, platinum-haired Valkyrie-lawyer who can audit your taxes and then split you in…

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    nate bargatze

    Nate Bargatze and the Soft Power of the American Mumble: How One Tennessee Everyman Quietly Became the Planet’s Preferred Sedative By Dave’s Locker Foreign Desk PARIS—On any given Thursday, while ministers in Brussels argue over grain tariffs and Beijing’s censors sharpen their knives for the next celebrity, a 44-year-old man from Old Hickory, Tennessee, is…

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    poland

    Warsaw, 2024 – Somewhere between the Vistula’s lazy bend and the next EU summit, Poland has quietly become the world’s most over-qualified cautionary tale. Thirty-five years after the Berlin Wall’s souvenir hawkers packed up, the country sits at the geopolitical equivalent of the last booth in a 24-hour diner: everyone ends up there eventually, the…

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    john sununu

    John Sununu: The Man Who Made Bureaucracy a Contact Sport By Dave’s Locker International Affairs Desk On the surface, John H. Sununu looks like the sort of technocrat who could be quietly misplaced behind a potted palm at any OECD reception. A former governor of New Hampshire, White House Chief of Staff to George H….