UHM Football: A Tiny Archipelago in the Global Coliseum By Our Correspondent, currently between time zones somewhere over the Pacific If you squint hard enough from the departure lounge of Incheon, you can almost see Honolulu’s Aloha Stadium sinking slowly into the Pacific like a discarded kettle grill. That, dear reader, is the current stage…
The Big Half 2025: How the World Learned to Stop Worrying and Love a 13.1-Mile Existential Crisis LONDON—At precisely 9:03 a.m. GMT on 9 March, 29,876 bipedal mammals in neonate windbreakers set off from Tower Bridge, officially launching the planet’s first post-Brexit, post-truth, post-pandemic half-marathon: The Big Half 2025. To the casual observer it looked…
The Bear Is Global Now: How Ayo Edebiri Became the Accidental Diplomat of Kitchen Rage By Dave’s International Correspondent, still picking confit out of his passport PARIS—In the grand tradition of soft-power exports, the United States has previously given the world jazz, jeans, and that nagging suspicion that democracy ships with optional upgrades. Now, courtesy…
PARIS—On a rain-slick afternoon outside the Olympia, the queue stretches from the brasserie awnings all the way to the Seine, as if the river itself decided to form an orderly line for once. Inside, a 51-year-old Mancunian in a khaki parka is sound-checking the same four chords the planet has been hearing since 1994, and…
Linkin Park and the Global Soundtrack of Managed Despair By Diego “Dust-to-Digital” Morales, Senior Correspondent, Somewhere Over the Pacific They say nostalgia is just grief with better marketing. If that’s true, Linkin Park is the platinum-certified grief counselor to a planet that never quite figured out adulthood. When the band’s surviving members announced a new…
Paris, 03:47 local time – The Daily Telegraph, that stately British broadsheet once nicknamed “The Torygraph” by people who thought they were being original, has been having what the tabloids would call “a moment.” Not the sort of moment that involves a prime minister’s aide, a suitcase of rosé, and a Downing Street swing set—more…
Laila Cunningham Doesn’t Exist (And That’s the Whole Point) By the time the Reuters alert pinged in Lagos, the Financial Times had already drafted her obituary, and a Berlin think-tank had scheduled a webinar on “Cunninghamism and the Collapse of Western Soft Power.” The only snag: no one has ever been able to prove that…
Emmys 2025: The World Watches America Hand Itself Another Trophy By Dave’s Locker Foreign Correspondent (currently in self-imposed exile from polite society) LOS ANGELES—While Gaza smolders, the Arctic melts, and TikTok’s algorithm learns to read our diaries in real time, the global village took a brief, synchronized gasp on Sunday night to watch the 77th…
Carol Kirkwood: The Weather Oracle the World Didn’t Know It Needed By Dave’s Locker International Desk In the grand, smoldering tapestry of 2024—where oceans boil, glaciers sulk, and half the planet votes for leaders who treat climatology as a punch line—there stands, improbably, Carol Kirkwood. To the untrained eye she is merely the BBC’s perennially…
The World’s Favorite Divorce: How “Split” Became the Planet’s New National Sport By Matteo Vargas, Senior Correspondent, Dave’s Locker Somewhere between the Arctic Circle and the last functional ATM in Beirut, humanity has decided that fission is fashion. From marital splits to sovereign secessions, from stock splits to split infinitives, the global zeitgeist has become…
The World’s Smallest Great Power: Montenegro as a Geopolitical Punchline By Our Correspondent, still hung-over from a rakija-soaked night in Kotor The Adriatic has always been Europe’s liquid catwalk: Venice glides by in designer decay, Croatia flaunts newly-acquired EU pins, and then—barely visible unless you squint—Montenegro struts in borrowed shoes two sizes too big. At…
Mike Evans and the Mirror He Holds Up to a World That Can’t Catch By the time Mike Evans’ latest one-handed, gravity-defying grab hits the highlight reels from Lagos to Lisbon, three things are already certain: (1) the Earth will keep turning, (2) Tom Brady will still be playing somewhere, and (3) at least one…
