Ryder Cup Scores: When America’s Meltdown Becomes the Planet’s Reality TV By our man in the press tent, still smelling of damp tweed and moral decay Marco Simone Golf & Country Club, Rome—The scoreboard said 16½–11½, a margin that looks like a typo until you remember Europeans still use commas for decimals, so the confusion…
Adiós, 2025. Bonjour, 2027. The Ryder Cup caravan—equal parts golf, geopolitics, and open-bar diplomacy—has packed its tartan trousers, its corporate hospitality tents, and its barely concealed existential dread, and is now rumbling toward the Île-de-France like a Brexit refugee with an expense account. Where the 2025 matches in Bethpage felt like a Twitter pile-on with…
My Chemical Romance Returns to Glasgow: A Global Funeral for the Living GLASGOW—On a Tuesday night so damp it could’ve been sponsored by a British tear-duct lobby, 13,500 black-clad pilgrims descended upon the OVO Hydro. Their mission: to watch a band that once made suburban teenagers everywhere believe eyeliner was a personality reboot its corpse…
International Dispatch – National Pancake Day By H. V. Loring, Senior Correspondent, Dave’s Locker Somewhere between the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of TikTok dances, humanity collectively decided that the best way to commemorate its fragile existence was to dedicate a Tuesday—yes, a Tuesday—to batter fried in butter. Welcome, dear reader, to…
Karolína Muchová Isn’t Just a Tennis Story—She’s the Bleakly Beautiful Metaphor We’ve All Been Waiting For By Dave’s Locker Global Sports Correspondent PRAGUE—When the Czech Republic’s Karolína Muchová dismantled world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in the 2023 U.S. Open semifinal, she did more than reach her first Grand Slam final. She offered the planet a…
In Praise of the American South’s Slow-Motion Car Crash: Ethel Cain as Global Warning Label By the time the first church bell tolls in Perry, Florida, the rest of the planet has already turned the page—stock markets in Shenzhen, lunch lines in Lagos, TikTok teenagers in São Paulo scrolling past another clip of some girl…
Priscilla Presley and the Global Alchemy of Tragedy Chic By Marisol Vega, Senior Correspondent, Dave’s Locker If you want to understand how the world metabolises American heartbreak, watch Priscilla Presley doing press in Seoul, Tokyo, or—God help us—Dubai. At 78, she glides through luxury-hotel lobbies like a diplomat from the sovereign nation of Nostalgia, flanked…
A Million-Year-Old Skull Walks into a Bar… Subtitled: And promptly upends the fossil record, three PhD dissertations, and the fragile self-esteem of Homo sapiens everywhere. By the time you read this, the skull—officially catalogued as LD 350-1 but already nicknamed “Lucy’s Problematic Ex” by the caffeine-deprived team in Afar, Ethiopia—will have logged more air miles…
Wild Cards in a Wilder World: How MLB’s October Lottery Looks from the Cheap Seats of the Globe By Our Man in Every Airport Lounge at Once If you squint from the departure gate in Dubai, the American League Wild Card standings look a bit like the Security Council: three traditional powers trying to pretend…
Sir Menzies Campbell, the man whose surname sounds like an upscale Scottish soup, once strode the global stage as Britain’s Liberal Democrat leader with the dignified air of a man who had misplaced his reading glasses and blamed the European Union. To the wider world, Campbell—inevitably nicknamed “Ming” after a Flash Gordon villain whose eyebrows…
Deerfield Fair: How a New Hampshire Corn Dog Became a Geopolitical Rorschach Test By Our Man in the Monadnock Region, Nursing a Cider Donut and Existential Dread Every October, while the rest of the planet busies itself with coups, cryptocurrency crashes, and the slow-motion collapse of Antarctic ice shelves, the town of Deerfield, New Hampshire…
Ming Campbell, the man whose very name sounds like a budget airline that would leave you stranded in Tirana, has spent a lifetime proving that dignity in politics is not only possible but also oddly unpopular. At eighty-three, the former Olympic sprinter turned Liberal Democrat grandee now sprints mainly between BBC studios and House of…
