Global Mail: The Quiet Bureaucrats Who Decide Whether Your Nasty Letter Crosses a Border by Our Correspondent, currently somewhere between two time zones and several broken scanners PARIS—Somewhere in the fluorescent bowels of La Poste’s sorting hub at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle, a man named Étienne is weighing a postcard of the Eiffel Tower against the possibility that…
Immigration Appeals Court: Where Hope Goes to Get a Number and Wait in Line Forever By the Global Affairs Correspondent who has watched passports change hands more often than a €500 note in a Bulgarian nightclub. Walk into any immigration appeals court on the planet and you’ll find the same décor: fluorescent lighting that flatters…
The Curious Case of Hugo Hernández-Méndez: How One Man’s Misfortune Became the World’s Favorite Schadenfreude By the time Hugo Hernández-Méndez’s name started trending in five languages and three alphabets, the poor man had already missed his own funeral—twice. First, when a premature death notice circulated on a Mexican state-run website; second, when the same government…
