Car Injury Attorneys: The Globe’s New Ambassadors of Ambulance-Chasing Diplomacy By Our Correspondent, Somewhere Between a Traffic Circle in Paris and the World’s Longest Tailback Outside Lagos It begins, as most modern tragedies do, with a notification. Somewhere between the squeal of rubber and the ping of an airbag sensor, a fender-bender in São Paulo…
In the grand, spiraling telenovela of global pop culture, few supporting players have managed to surf every wave—from Broadway to algorithmic streaming sludge—with the buoyant inevitability of a well-greased otter quite like Josh Gad. From a balcony in Buenos Aires you might see him as the cinematic equivalent of the McDonald’s french fry: simultaneously everywhere,…
Dodger Game, n.: A planetary pastime in which the world’s most powerful governments, corporations, and individuals compete to see who can avoid responsibility for the greatest number of catastrophes before the final buzzer—also known, on certain days, as a baseball match in Chavez Ravine. Same rules, different stakes. From the grandstands of geopolitics, the Dodgers…
**Kurt Russell: The Last American Action Hero the World Actually Tolerates** While the planet burns through its third year of geopolitical dumpster fires and economic whack-a-mole, one man has somehow maintained his status as Hollywood’s most exportable tough guy without starting a single international incident. Kurt Russell—actor, former child star, and apparently the only American…
Warsaw, 03:14 a.m. local—While most of the planet was doom-scrolling inflation graphs or arguing about whether the ocean is actually on fire this week, one modest Polish web portal quietly chalked up its one-billionth click since January. The culprit? “onet pl,” a two-decade-old digital veteran that looks, at first glance, like the internet equivalent of…
Kali Uchis: America’s Newest Export in Soft-Focus Nostalgia and Hard-Edged Irony By Our Correspondent Who Has Spent Too Many Nights in Airport Lounges Listening to Elevator Bossa Nova Medellín → Los Angeles → Your Algorithm—The career arc of Karly-Marina Loaiza, better known as Kali Uchis, is a tidy parable for the age of planetary pop-on-demand….
BlackRock: The Shadow Treasury with a Mood Ring By Our Man in Geneva, nursing a third espresso and counting the milliseconds until the next sovereign default The first thing you notice when you land in any capital city these days is the luggage carousel. Not the diplomatic plates, not the stray oligarch’s jet—just the carousel,…
**The Left-Handed Relief: How Alex Vesia Became Baseball’s Accidental Diplomat in a World That Keeps Striking Out** In the grand theater of global affairs—where nuclear powers play chicken over shipping lanes and climate summits devolve into carbon-spewing junkets—it’s almost endearing that a 28-year-old left-handed reliever from California might represent humanity’s most successful export of American…
The Curious Case of Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva, or How a 17-Year-Old Andorran Became the Canary in Tennis’ Global Coal Mine *By a Correspondent Who Has Seen Too Many Post-Match Pressers and Drunk Too Much Weak Espresso* Let the record show that the Principality of Andorra—population 79,000, most of whom are either duty-free perfume bottles or…
The Ballad of Riley O’Brien: How a 5-Foot-8 Irish Jockey Rode the Entire World Into a Moral Tizzy Dublin – Somewhere between the third pint of Guinness and the fourth replay of the 2024 Melbourne Cup, the planet’s chattering classes discovered that a man named Riley O’Brien had become the most consequential Irish export since…
Billy Crudup: The Accidental Global Everyman Somewhere between a Netflix menu and an airport paperback, Billy Crudup keeps turning up like a polite but slightly unnerving houseguest. The American actor—who, for the uninitiated, looks exactly like the man your ex-wife swore was “just a coworker”—has become the quiet export the world didn’t order but now…
Christopher Lloyd: The Man Who Put Time Travel on the Global Balance Sheet By Our Man at the End of the Universe PARIS—While most of the planet’s 8.1 billion souls were busy doom-scrolling through inflation charts and celebrity divorces last week, one Christopher Lloyd quietly celebrated his 85th birthday. Not the disgraced FTX coder, mind…
