Michelle Collins: The Accidental Astronaut of 21st-Century Fame By Dave’s Locker Foreign Desk PARIS—Somewhere between the Seine and the electromagnetic soup of TikTok, Michelle Collins has become the latest human satellite launched by the global attention economy—an orbit both dazzling and slightly radioactive. If the name rings a bell in Lagos, Lima, and Lyon alike,…
When Zach Bryan, Oklahoma’s favorite poet-in-flannel, tweeted a clipped video of Gavin Adcock performing a boot-stomping cover of “Something in the Orange,” the Internet’s attention span—roughly that of a fruit fly on espresso—pivoted from Gaza cease-fires and French pension riots to a Georgia lineman-turned-country-singer who looks like he could also re-wire your fuse box. Within…
Bargain Bin Planet: The Global Garage Sale of “Cars for Sale” By the Bureau Chief for Dimly Lit Parking Lots, Dave’s Locker There is a moment—usually around 3 a.m. local time, when the neon of the used-car lot flickers like a migraine—when you realize that “cars for sale” is no longer a classified ad but…
When Ravens Meet Browns: A Global Morality Play Staged in Pads and Helmets Dave’s Locker, International Desk If you squint past the stadium lights in Baltimore this Sunday, you’ll see more than a gridiron grudge match—you’ll witness a tidy allegory for a planet that can’t decide whether it prefers doom or farce. On one sideline:…
The Epstein Birthday Book: A Global Who’s-Who of Who-Me? Geneva, Switzerland – In the hushed salons where diplomats pretend the world still runs on etiquette, a slim black ledger has begun circulating like a contraband truffle. Its cover, embossed in discreet gold, reads simply “Epstein – Birthdays 1953-2019.” Inside, the pages list not cake preferences…
Grand Theft Planet: How GTA 6 Became the World’s Most Honest Mirror If aliens ever land and demand a single artifact that explains 21st-century humanity, we’ll probably hand them a pre-loaded SSD of Grand Theft Auto VI and pray they have a sense of irony. Because Rockstar’s latest crime sandbox isn’t just a game; it’s…
BILLS VS JETS: A VERY SMALL WAR ON A VERY LARGE PLANET By Our Man in the Cheap Seats, Somewhere Between Buffalo and the End of the World If you squint hard enough from the International Space Station, Sunday night’s collision between the Buffalo Bills and the New York Jets looks less like a football…
Rams vs Titans: A Global Forecast for the Apocalypse That Is Week 14 If the universe were a bar, the Rams-Titans tilt this Sunday would be the lukewarm beer special you order only because everything else is either on fire or under investigation. Still, 193 UN-recognized countries, a handful of rogue states, and Elon Musk’s…
Manchester, that rainy Victorian mill town that reinvented itself as a football theme park with two corporate cathedrals, once again divides the planet into red and sky-blue hemispheres. The Manchester Derby has become less a local skirmish than a quarterly earnings call with choreography. From Singapore hawker stalls streaming dodgy IPTV feeds to Lagos barbershops…
Virginia Giuffre and the Cosmic Irony of Justice in the Age of Private Jets By our correspondent in the departure lounge of moral bankruptcy The name Virginia Giuffre still rattles around the world’s chanceries like an unclaimed diplomatic bag: too hot to open, too toxic to lose. From Canberra to Abu Dhabi, her story has…
When Rubén Sellés was quietly promoted from Southampton’s shadowy analytics dungeon to the bright, unforgiving glare of the touchline last February, the world barely blinked. After all, in the grand geopolitical casino—where presidents gamble continents on Twitter and central bankers move markets with a raised eyebrow—who has calories to burn on a 39-year-old Spaniard learning…
New Delhi—It says something about the twenty-first century that a cricket ground in the Aravalli hills can feel like a planetary control room. On 23 February, when Harmanpreet Kaur’s India and Alyssa Healy’s Australia walk out for the T20 World Cup final, the scoreboard will be the least interesting ledger on display. The real balance…
