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…
