Tegucigalpa and Managua have never been accused of modesty, but even by Central-American standards their latest pas de deux feels like geopolitical cabaret performed on a stage made of termite-riddled balsa. While the rest of the planet obsesses over whether an American president can remember which continent he’s bombing, the strip of land between the…
Lynx vs Fever: A Tale of Two Temperatures and One Very Confused Planet By Dave’s Locker International Desk (still wearing a hazmat suit “just in case”) Let us begin with the obvious: somewhere in the last decade the natural world decided that satire was obsolete and hired itself out as a headline writer. Case in…
Venezuela vs Colombia: A Border Spat That Could Give the Whole Hemisphere Heartburn By the time you read this, the Bolívarian Republic of Venezuela and the Republic of Colombia have already performed their daily choreography of saber-rattling, Twitter-thread diplomacy, and the kind of military posturing that looks impressive only if you squint really hard and…
Venezuela vs The Known Universe: A One-Sided Bout in Extra Rounds By Our Man in the Cheap Seats, somewhere over the Caribbean CARACAS—In the blue corner, weighing in at 916,445 km² and shrinking fast, stands a country whose inflation rate once clocked 130,060 %—a figure so cartoonish it made Zimbabwe blink. In every other corner,…
Quito, Ecuador – Somewhere between the Andes and a nervous hedge fund, Ecuador and Argentina are playing a game that looks suspiciously like football but smells unmistakably like geopolitics. The fixture itself—tonight at Estadio Rodrigo Paz Delgado—will decide little in the cosmic ledger: three points, a few million collective heartbeats, maybe a shattered TV or…
If you drew a diagonal across South America from Quito to Buenos Aires, you’d slice through roughly 4,000 kilometres of Andean vertigo, pampas melancholy, and the sort of political pendulum swings that would make Newton reach for stronger coffee. Ecuador versus Argentina, then, is not merely a fixture on the Copa América group-stage bingo card;…
Don Lemon and the Global Ripple of a Very American Firing By “Cynicus Maximus,” Senior Correspondent, Dave’s Locker PARIS—In most latitudes, when a television host is shown the door, the story is buried somewhere between the obituaries and the weather. But when CNN dispatches Don Lemon—its last primetime anchor who still pronounced “Kyiv” correctly on…
DENVER, Colorado—The Mile-High City’s weather forecast this week reads like a ransom note Mother Nature scribbled on the back of a bar napkin: 70°F on Monday, 7 inches of snow by Wednesday, and a 30% chance of existential dread by the weekend. To the average Coloradan this is merely Tuesday; to the rest of the…
The Thunder in the Void: Why Benin vs Lesotho Is the Geo-Political Cage Match Nobody Ordered By the time you read this, the world’s attention will have already flitted elsewhere—probably to whatever tropical island a crypto billionaire just sank his yacht on—but for one shimmering, slightly ridiculous moment, the planet’s idle gaze fixed itself on…
Kingdom Hearts 4: The Planet-Spanning Power Fantasy We Can’t Quit By Cora Voss, Senior Correspondent, Dave’s Locker International Bureau It’s 2025, half the Northern Hemisphere is either on fire or underwater, and the other half is arguing on Discord about whether Sora’s new sneakers constitute cultural appropriation. Yet here we are—again—salivating over a fresh trailer…
Dancing With the Stars Premiere: When the Globe Pauses to Watch C-List Glitter Diplomacy In a week when the Arctic Circle reported its first rain-on-snow-in-August event and the Bank of Japan quietly debated whether to let the yen commit honorable seppuku, roughly seventeen million people from Reykjavík to Reykjavík (via Perth, Lagos, and that one…
The Andes vs. the Chaco: Why a Tuesday Night Qualifier in Asunción Matters More Than Your Mortgage Rate By Our Man in Lima, Still Waiting for the Bus In any other week, the planet’s attention would be fixed on the usual circus: a G-7 finance minister explaining how “transitory” now means “permanent,” or a tech…
