### Aldrich Ames: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold… and Then Back Out Again In the vast, chaotic landscape of the internet, trends come and go like fleeting romances at a high school dance. But every now and then, a name resurfaces that’s so deliciously scandalous, it’s like finding a vintage vinyl record…
A Shot Heard from Dallas to Djibouti: How JFK’s Exit Became the World’s Favorite Morality Play The global village didn’t wait for fiber-optic cable to synchronize its gasp. On 22 November 1963, the news moved at the speed of short-wave radio, ticker tape, and whispered rumor, and every capital—whether sipping post-prandial grappa in Rome or…
Steffi Graf: How a West German Baseline Automaton Shrank the Globe and Reminded Dictatorships That Tennis Still Matters By the time the Berlin Wall cracked in 1989, Steffi Graf had already built a smaller, more portable wall—one made of topspin and Teutonic precision—around every baseline from Melbourne’s baked concrete to Roland-Garros’ powdered brick. The planet…
The General Who Invented Traffic Jams and Détente: Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Accidental World Tour By Our Man in Geneva, still waiting for the diplomatic pouch to arrive on time The first thing you notice about Dwight David Eisenhower—if you’re unfortunate enough to be stuck behind a column of Belgian tourists on the A7 outside Lyon—is…
Martina Navratilova: The Defector Who Beat the World at Its Own Game by Dave’s International Desk Prague, 1975. Somewhere behind the Iron Curtain, an 18-year-old left-hander with a serve like a guillotine and a mullet that mocked the very concept of aerodynamics decided she’d had enough of velvet revolutions and state-sponsored haircuts. She slipped out…
The Bridge of Spies: A Cold War Waltz That Never Quite Ended By Dave’s Locker International Desk Berlin—There’s something irresistibly comic about the fact that the most famous prisoner exchange in modern history happened on a bridge named after a dead communist, supervised by men who would all eventually be played by Oscar winners. Welcome…
