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Global Panic Over Pastel Squares: How a NYT Word Puzzle Became the World’s Most Viral Political Rorschach Test
ByDaveslocker 26 September 2025

The New York Times’ Connections puzzle for September 26, 2024, has become—against all logic and proportion—the most widely discussed diplomatic code since the Zimmermann Telegram. From Lagos to Lima, commuters who once read stock-market tickers now trade screenshots of pastel-colored squares like they’re negotiating carbon credits. Somewhere an underpaid translator in Geneva is explaining to…

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Analysis | International

Rhode Island: Tiny State, Titanic Delusions—Why the World Can’t Look Away from America’s Pocket-Sized Parody
ByDaveslocker 26 September 2025

Rhode Island: The Smallest State With the Biggest Identity Crisis By Our Man in the Cheap Seats, somewhere between Schiphol and a delayed T.F. Green layover Somewhere on the tectonic shuffleboard between Boston’s self-importance and New York’s delusions of centrality lies Rhode Island, a geographical typo that insists on being treated like a sovereign nation….

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Current Events | International

Barry George: The World’s Favorite Miscarriage of Justice—and Why Every Nation Has One
ByDaveslocker 26 September 2025

Barry George: How One Oddball Became Every Country’s Cautionary Tale In the great, greasy atlas of miscarried justice, few names are scrawled as indelibly—and as awkwardly—as Barry George. To the British, he’s the unemployed loner who spent eight years in Belmarsh for murdering television presenter Jill Dando before the Court of Appeal discovered the prosecution’s…

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International | Sports

Europe’s Ryder Cup Team: The Only Union Still Working (Until the Next Recession)
ByDaveslocker 26 September 2025

Europe’s Ryder Cup Team: The Last Remaining Coalition That Still Works—For Now Marco Simone, Rome – While the United Nations Security Council bickers over whose war crimes are more symmetrical, and the eurozone spends its evenings Googling “creative accounting synonyms,” twelve men in pastel cashmere have quietly assembled the only functioning European alliance left standing….

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Current Events | International

Global Markets Sigh in Unison as U.S. PCE Report Reveals Inflation’s Stubborn 2.7 % Hangover
ByDaveslocker 26 September 2025

PCE Report Today: Inflation’s Global Family Reunion Ends in a Food Fight Geneva—Around 7:00 a.m. local time, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released the latest Personal Consumption Expenditures index, colloquially known as “the Fed’s favorite inflation thermometer.” By 7:03, the world’s money changers, bond vigilantes, and algorithmic day-traders had already declared the patient either feverish…

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Analysis | International

Devon Franklin’s Global Gospel: How a Hollywood Producer Became the Supply-Chain Saint of Late Capitalism
ByDaveslocker 26 September 2025

Devon Franklin, the Los Angeles–bred producer-preacher hybrid who once blessed Sony’s balance sheets with Heaven Is for Real and Miracles from Heaven, has lately been exporting his particular brand of sanctified self-help to a planet that seems increasingly allergic to both sanctity and help. From Lagos megachurches that project his TED-adjacent sermons on Jumbotrons, to…

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International | Sports

Sky Sports: The Global Church Where We All Pay to Scream at Millionaires in HD
ByDaveslocker 26 September 2025

Sky Sports: the neon-lit cathedral where the world’s collective attention span goes to genuflect every weekend. From a tin-roofed bar in Lagos showing grainy satellite feeds of the Premier League, to a glass-walled co-working space in Singapore where crypto traders mute the ads but never the matches, the brand beams the same gospel: twenty-two millionaires…

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Analysis | International

House of Dynamite: The Planet-Sized Powder Keg We All Co-Own (and Keep Renovating)
ByDaveslocker 26 September 2025

House of Dynamite: The Global Powder Keg We All Live In By Our Correspondent, Somewhere Equidistant Between the Blast Zones They call it the “House of Dynamite” now—half architectural metaphor, half punch-line to a very expensive joke. From the outside it looks like any other McMansion of modernity: glass façades, fiber-optic veins, and a glowing…

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Business | International

Robert Herjavec’s Global Hustle: From Iron Curtain to Ionosphere, Selling Hope One Firewall at a Time
ByDaveslocker 26 September 2025

Robert Herjavec, the Croatian-Canadian who turned communist-era scarcity into capitalist fairy-tale abundance, is currently orbiting above most of us—literally. When he isn’t floating weightlessly on Jeff-Bezos-funded joyrides, he’s busy explaining to Seoul start-ups why their blockchain-powered kimchi futures platform needs “more heart” and “a better story,” which is venture-capitalist code for “please stop talking.” From…

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International | Sports

Ryder Cup Radio: The World’s Most Polite Proxy War, Now in Surround Sound
ByDaveslocker 26 September 2025

Ryder Cup Radio: The 18-Hole Soap Opera That Unites and Divides the Globe by Our Man with a Hangover in the Media Centre If you tune in to Ryder Cup Radio this September you will hear three things above the polite smattering of applause: the thwack of a Titleist, the sigh of a continent, and…

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International | Sports

Brooklyn Earick and the Global Glut of Hope: How a College Pitcher Became the Internet’s Newest Commodity
ByDaveslocker 26 September 2025

Brooklyn Earick: How a 19-Year-Old College Left-Arm Pitcher Accidentally Became a Global Parable of Overexposure Dateline: Somewhere between ESPN’s trade-rumor ticker and a Korean baseball forum at 3 a.m. — If you haven’t heard of Brooklyn Earick yet, congratulations: you still have a life. The rest of us—scouts in Koshien, Bundesliga data nerds refreshing TrackMan…

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International | Sports

Ryder Cup 2027-2045: A Grand Tour of the Last Places Still Above Water
ByDaveslocker 26 September 2025

The Ryder Cup, that biennial festival of polite tribalism where Europe and the United States pretend golf is still a matter of continental pride rather than hedge-fund bragging rights, has begun leaking its future venues like a drunken caddie leaks swing tips. In an act of cosmic optimism, the PGA of America and Ryder Cup…

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