Alanyaspor vs Galatasaray: A Turkish League Fixture That Somehow Matters in a World Already on Fire By Dave’s Locker International Desk It is Friday night in Alanya, a Mediterranean resort town whose biggest export used to be mediocre all-inclusive wristbands and whose newest export is a football club punching so far above its weight it…
Inflation Refund Checks: The World’s Most Expensive Apology Note By Our Man in Geneva, Still Waiting for His Own Check GENEVA—The latest fad in crisis management is neither a rate hike nor a stern op-ed, but a literal envelope stuffed with what economists call “inflation refund checks,” and what the rest of us call “hush…
West Bromwich Albion versus Leicester City sounds, at first blush, like a provincial scuffle over who forgot the teabags in the Midlands staff kitchen. Yet in the grand planetary theatre—where Wall Street interns refresh score-apps between margin calls and a Singaporean banker can ruin his sleep schedule for 90 minutes of men hoofing leather—this timeline…
MIAA POWER RANKINGS: A GLOBAL POWER PLAY IN SHORTS AND FAKE GRASS Singapore—While half the planet tries to remember whether it has already defaulted on its sovereign debt this week, the other half is refreshing a Google Sheet labeled “MIAA Power Rankings” with the solemnity of a UN Security Council vote. The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic…
Bayern vs. Werder: A Microscopic Peek at the Macro-Mess We Call Globalization By our correspondent who once watched a Champions League final in a Pyongyang hotel bar—don’t ask how the Wi-Fi worked. On the surface, Saturday’s collision between Bayern Munich and Werder Bremen is merely a Bundesliga fixture, the sort of domestic spat that European…
**The Sorcerer’s Apprentice of Wall Street: Howard Rubin’s Global Game of Mirrors** *By Our Correspondent Somewhere Between Luxembourg and a Hangover* Somewhere south of Manhattan—where the Hudson still pretends to be a river and not a liquid ledger—Howard Rubin used to sit in a trading room so aggressively air-conditioned his colleagues kept ski masks in…
Barkov: the name now ricochets around chat rooms, boardrooms, and dimly lit war rooms from Helsinki to Ho Chi Minh City with the same urgency once reserved for terms like “sub-prime” or “Brexit.” At first glance it sounds like a mid-tier vodka brand or a minor character in a Dostoevsky subplot, but Barkov—part meme, part…
Ford Stock: The Blue Oval’s Global Mood Ring Turns Optimistically Glum By Dave’s Locker International Desk Detroit may still print the certificates, but Ford Motor Company’s share price these days is written in a dozen currencies, parsed in time zones from Tokyo to São Paulo, and interpreted by analysts who haven’t seen daylight since the…
Pinecrest Glades Academy: A Snowy Microcosm of the Planet’s Slow-Motion Breakdown By “Global” Gus McAllister, Senior Correspondent, somewhere between Reykjavík and regret Somewhere on the frostbitten southern lip of the American continent—latitude 25.7° N, longitude 80.3° W, if you’re the sort who still trusts coordinates—sits Pinecrest Glades Academy, a K-12 charter that looks, on first…
XANDER SCHAUFFELE: THE LAST QUIET AMERICAN ON A PLANET THAT CAN’T STOP SCREAMING By the time Xander Schauffele tapped in for par to win the PGA Championship at Valhalla, the world had already moved on to the next outrage cycle. Somewhere between a cease-fire collapsing in Gaza, a TikTok ban that nobody asked for, and…
From the banks of the Tagus to the neon canyons of Tokyo, the second Monday in October has become an annual Rorschach test: some see parades, others see plunder. While U.S. federal employees enjoy a paid holiday to commemorate a Genoese sailor who never set foot on what would later be branded “America,” the rest…
Capgemini: The Quiet Colossus Outsourcing the Apocalypse—One Spreadsheet at a Time PARIS—While the rest of us were doom-scrolling through 2023’s greatest hits—wildfires, coups, AI-generated pop songs—Capgemini celebrated its 56th birthday by quietly adding another 30,000 humans to its payroll. That’s roughly the population of Liechtenstein, give or take a tax haven. Not bad for a…
