Athletics World Championships 2025: A Global Carnival of Sweat, Sponsors, and Existential Dread By Our Correspondent, Still Jet-Lagged in Tokyo Tokyo, September 2025 – The planet’s fastest, strongest, and most pharmaceutical-curious bipeds have once again converged on an island that still glows politely at night, this time for the 2025 World Athletics Championships. Delegations from…
The Man Who Refuses to Leave the Stage: Netanyahu’s Global Encore By Our Correspondent, still jet-lagged and morally fatigued Tel-Aviv—Look closely at any modern map and you’ll notice a curious phenomenon: borders shift, currencies collapse, even the climate renegotiates its terms, yet one constant remains—Benjamin Netanyahu, squinting into the klieg lights like a cat that…
PARLAY: THE WORLD’S FAVORITE HIGH-STAKES CONVERSATION When the French coined “parler” they merely wanted to talk; when pirates hijacked it into “parlay,” they weaponised chit-chat into a temporary cease-fire so they could haggle over doubloons and throats. Today the term has metastasised across every time zone, a linguistic stowaway riding globalisation’s rum barrel. From hedge-fund…
Raleek Brown: The 5’8″ American Who Just Gave the Planet a Pep Talk on Perseverance By Dave’s International Desk | 19 June 2024 Somewhere between the cease-fire negotiations in Rafah and the latest AI-generated apology video from a Fortune-500 CEO, a 19-year-old kid from Mater Dei High—yes, the one whose recruiting profile still lists him…
Cowboys vs. Giants: A Global Fable Starring Ten-Gallon Egos and Corporate Skyscrapers by our man in the cheap seats, somewhere above the Atlantic If you squint from thirty thousand feet, the eternal showdown between Cowboys and Giants looks less like a Monday-night football grudge match and more like the planet’s unofficial operating system. One half…
The Black Gold That Binds Us All Brussels, Belgium – Somewhere between the smoked-glass towers of NATO headquarters and the Kremlin’s gilded halls, the same liquid flows: Russian crude. It’s the punchline nobody asked for in a joke that keeps getting darker. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the West promised to “cut off the artery” of…
Tonight, somewhere in the 30 Rock mothership, a freshly powdered celebrity will step under the Studio 8H lights and pretend, for 90 merciful minutes, that the world is still capable of laughing at its own reflection. The identity of the SNL host du soir hardly matters to the average citizen of, say, Ouagadougou or Vladivostok—unless,…
The Quiet Sovereign: Alindra Person-Crawford and the Geopolitics of a Boxing Marriage By Our Correspondent, somewhere between a Vegas sportsbook and a UN Security Council briefing In the grand casino of global attention, the house always wins, and tonight the chips are stacked on Terence “Bud” Crawford’s undefeated record. Yet just beyond the klieg lights,…
**The Accidental Diplomat: How a Slovenian Tennis Player Became an Unlikely Geopolitical Pawn** In the grand theater of international relations—where nuclear powers play chicken over shipping lanes and oil executives masquerade as climate saviors—it’s refreshing when the spotlight lands on someone who just wanted to hit a yellow ball over a net. Enter Veronika Erjavec,…
A fist, wrapped in eight ounces of regulation leather, is the closest thing the United Nations has ever produced to an enforceable resolution. From Manila’s humid barangay gyms to the neon shrines of Las Vegas, the planet’s boxing champions serve as ambulatory metaphors for whichever national myth needs selling this fiscal quarter. They are trade…
Armando González, International Man of Mystery (and Parking Tickets) The name Armando González has been quietly ricocheting around the world’s back-channels, encrypted chat rooms, and the occasional customs declaration since roughly 2012—about the same time the rest of us were still trying to remember our new Facebook passwords. To the uninitiated, he is a mid-level…
Omaha, Nebraska — Terence “Bud” Crawford did not merely knock out Errol Spence in their welterweight unification bout last weekend; he detonated a small tactical nuke so surgically placed that the International Atomic Energy Agency is rumored to have filed an incidental report. The punch in question—a southpaw-lead uppercut that turned Spence’s consciousness into a…
