Spring Valley Fire: A Local Blaze with Global Arsonists By “Scorched” Santiago Vega, Senior Correspondent, Dave’s Locker The first wisps of smoke rose above Spring Valley, Nevada, last Tuesday at 14:37 local time—just late enough in the day for European traders to notice the haze on their Bloomberg terminals and wonder if their algorithmic portfolios…
White Sox vs. Tigers: A Late-Night Midwestern Ballet for the Insomniac Planet By Our Man in Exile, Somewhere Over the Arctic Circle If you glanced at your phone at 3:47 a.m. local time in Jakarta, 21:17 in Buenos Aires, or any other godforsaken hour when decent folk are either asleep or pretending to be, you…
NFL Football Tonight: The American Gladiator Show That Pays for Half the World’s Cable Bill By Dave’s Locker Foreign Desk While the rest of the planet is busy arguing about tariffs, TikTok bans, and whether the North Atlantic is still a thing, tonight’s NFL game (Cowboys-Eagles, 8:15 p.m. ET for those keeping score in Zulu…
AppLovin: The Algorithmic Pied Piper of Planet Earth By Dave’s Locker Global Affairs Desk Somewhere between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of TikTok dances, humanity quietly agreed to surrender its attention spans to a handful of Californian engineers with a gift for turning micro-transactions into macro-misery. Enter AppLovin, the San Francisco–based…
Hood Stock and the Global Bazaar of Rebellious Capital By G. M. Delacroix, Senior Correspondent, Somewhere over the Mid-Atlantic It began, as most modern morality tales do, on a subreddit. A horde of screen-locked millennials—armed with stimulus checks, Robinhood accounts, and the attention span of fruit flies—decided that the corner bodega could double as the…
Super Bowl LX: A Halftime Show the World Couldn’t Mute *Dispatch from the Global Nosebleed Section* If you missed the 2026 halftime spectacle, congratulations—you were probably busy dodging drone strikes, paying rent in a currency that evaporates faster than ethics on a campaign trail, or simply living somewhere the NFL’s broadcast rights haven’t yet colonized….
Blood Moon Diplomacy: How a Rust-Colored Orb Became the World’s Most Honest Mirror ——————————————————————– Tonight the moon will slip into Earth’s shadow and emerge the color of dried blood—an unsubtle reminder that even celestial bodies can’t escape a decent bruising. Across every time zone, billions of necks will crane skyward to witness the same bruised…
Eswatini: The Last Absolute Monarchy That Forgot to Update Its Marketing Strategy By Dave’s Locker International Desk Mbabane—Tucked between South Africa and Mozambique like a polite afterthought, Eswatini (née Swaziland) is the world’s last absolute monarchy whose ruler still insists on calling himself “Ingwenyama” instead of the far sexier “Supreme Leader” or “Emperor of Vibes.”…
Elissa Slotkin and the Quiet Art of Not Being Donald Trump By our man in the cheap seats, watching America audition for a reboot no one asked for Somewhere between the burnt-coffee smell of a Vienna train station and the faint whiff of tear gas drifting out of a Parisian banlieue, it’s easy to forget…
Carey Price and the Unbearable Lightness of Being a National Saint By Dave’s Locker International Desk, somewhere between a Tim Hortons and a UN peacekeeping outpost MONTREAL—If you want to watch a country negotiate with its own mythology, just mention Carey Price’s name in any bar from Chicoutimi to Chilliwack. The man has become a…
John McEnroe: The Last American Who Could Scream at Authority and Still Get Applause By Dave’s International Desk, still picking up the pieces after another Grand Slam meltdown somewhere on the GMT timeline PARIS—In the VIP box above Court Philippe-Chatrier, a silver-haired man in a bespoke blazer sits with the serenity of a retired apex…
Toronto, the city that can’t decide whether it’s New York with healthcare or Cleveland with delusions, has become the world’s polite laboratory for the question: “What happens when global capital, global talent, and global anxiety all collide in a place where the sidewalks apologize for your own bad mood?” From an international vantage point—say, a…
