The “Crypto Arena” Isn’t a Building—It’s the Planet, and We’re All in the Cheap Seats By our jaded correspondent, still nursing a $4 bottle of stadium water LOS ANGELES, DUBAI, DAKAR—Pick your time zone, the opening whistle already blew. Staples Center may have rebranded itself Crypto.com Arena for a tidy $700 million, but the real…
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, passed away this week at the age of 100, leaving behind a legacy that stretches far beyond the borders of the country he once led. For those of us watching from afar, Carter’s life reads like a cautionary tale about what happens when decency collides with…
BMW PGA Championship 2025: When the World Sends Its Golfers to Surrey, the Rest of Us Pretend to Care by Henrietta “Hank” Mortensen, International Correspondent-at-Large VIRGINIA WATER, England – Every September, the Wentworth Club becomes a temporary United Nations with slightly better tailoring and far worse parking. In 2025, the BMW PGA Championship will once…
**The Day the World Got a Passport Stamp It Never Asked For** Twenty-three years on, and September 11th has become something of a grim annual festival—like Christmas, but with more crying and fewer presents. The planet’s collective trauma has matured into a fine vintage of paranoia, served chilled at every international airport security checkpoint from…
Global Lottery Numbers Drop Like Guilt at 3 a.m.—and the World Pretends It’s Hope By the time the last ball clacked into its acrylic cage on Wednesday night, the “national lottery lotto results” had already ricocheted through six continents, three tax shelters, and one WhatsApp group containing your cousin in Lagos who swears he “had…
Deebo Samuel’s 2023 stat line—1,770 all-purpose yards, 12 touchdowns, and an unofficial 247 bruised egos—may look like just another American football spreadsheet entry, but try explaining that to a Marseille dockworker streaming the NFC Championship on a cracked iPhone at 3 a.m. CET. To him, Deebo is less athlete, more avatar of late-capitalist velocity: a…
Tommy Fleetwood’s Hair, the Ryder Cup, and the Fragile Illusion of National Pride By our man in the cheap seats, somewhere between Manchester and Marseille If you squint through the smog of geopolitical despair, the name “Tommy Fleetwood” sounds less like a golfer and more like a failed 19th-century British trade policy—something that accidentally colonized…
**The Danish Delight: How Rasmus Højlund Became Football’s Latest Answer to Existential Dread** In a world where billionaires play space tourism while the planet burns and artificial intelligence threatens to make journalists obsolete (hello, irony), humanity has found its newest distraction: a 20-year-old Danish striker who runs like he’s being chased by Denmark’s collective tax…
Kathmandu’s air this week tastes of tear gas and generational disappointment, a pairing that vintners of global unrest will recognize from Beirut to Bogotá. While the rest of the planet binge-watched AI launch events and congratulated itself on surviving another quarterly earnings cycle, Gen Z in Nepal decided that waiting politely for the future was…
Sailing the Algorithmic Abyss: How Etsy’s Witch-Mariner Trend Became a Global Metaphor for Our Times By Dave’s Locker International Desk Somewhere between the Suez Canal and the Sea of Cortez, a new maritime subculture has slipped anchor: the Etsy witch mariner. Equal parts tarot reader, rope-work hobbyist, and drop-ship entrepreneur, these nautical neopagans are hawking…
Deuce Vaughn, 5-foot-5 on a good hair day, has become the shortest running back in the modern NFL. From a distance it looks like a clerical error: surely the Dallas Cowboys meant to list him as 6-foot-5 and the decimal point just got drunk. Yet here we are, in a world where TikTok decides elections…
Bristol, England – In the genteel world of British fund supermarkets, where the tea is strong, the accents clipped, and the commissions once as stealthy as pickpockets at a royal wedding, Hargreaves Lansdown has long played the role of the impeccably mannered butler: discreet, indispensable, and quietly skimming the silver. Yet from Jakarta to Johannesburg,…
