**The Global Carousel of Wind and Irony: How Hurricanes Became the World’s Shared Nightmare** By the time a hurricane finishes its trans-oceanic temper tantrum, it has usually racked up enough frequent-flyer miles to make a business-class consultant blush. Born off the coast of West Africa as a sultry breeze, it sashays across the Atlantic, upgrades…
Sun-Powered Bribery: A Global Tour of Solar Incentives, or How Governments Pay Us Not to Cook the Planet By the time you finish reading this sentence, Germany will have wired another household €6,000 for daring to bolt panels onto its roof. Somewhere in Rajasthan, a farmer is checking his phone to see if New Delhi’s…
**The SeaWolves of Erie: America’s Minor League Marvel in a World on Fire** While the planet grapples with climate agreements that everyone signs but nobody reads, and democracies elect leaders who can’t remember why they ran in the first place, the Erie SeaWolves continue their noble pursuit of baseball excellence in Pennsylvania’s rusting belt. It’s…
Primavera Sound 2026: The World’s Loudest Peace Summit By Eduardo Valdez, International Correspondent at Large Barcelona, 6 June 2026 – The Parc del Fòrum smells of sunscreen, irony, and whatever TikTok has declared the “new patchouli” this season. Tens of thousands have converged on the Mediterranean shoreline for Primavera Sound, the annual pop-music panacea now…
OneStream, the Birmingham-born cloud platform that promises to “unify” corporate financial planning, has quietly become the Esperanto of spreadsheets: everybody pretends to understand it, nobody admits they’re terrified, and yet somehow deals keep closing from São Paulo to Singapore. At first glance it’s just another SaaS acronym salad—CPM, EPM, FP&A—served lukewarm on PowerPoint. But zoom…
The Miracle of Flight, or How to Sit in a Tin Can and Pretend It’s Progress By our man in seat 47B, somewhere between Doha and existential dread Gravity, once the universe’s way of telling us to stay humble, has been thoroughly overruled. Every three seconds, somewhere on the planet, 300 tons of aluminum and…
# The Wayward World Tour: How Every Nation Perfected the Art of Getting Spectacularly Lost There is a charming lie we tell at passport control: that borders keep the wayward out. In truth, they merely provide a convenient queue for the globally disoriented. From the Arctic Circle to the equator, humanity has spent the last…
Sun Kings 2.0: How Solar Companies Became the New Petro-Sheikhs—Only Politer and With Better Slides By our correspondent, still wearing SPF-50 in December BARCELONA—Walk along the marina at sunrise and you’ll spot the tell-tale shimmer: entire super-yachts wrapped in photovoltaic panels, their owners sipping cold-brew espresso brewed from the same rays that keep the champagne…
The Global Rebrand of a Meltdown: How the World Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Fritz by H. L. “Hapless” Delacroix, International Desk Somewhere between a Tokyo bullet-train delay and a Frankfurt baggage carousel jammed by one rebellious Samsonite, the word “fritz” slipped out of its Teutonic cradle and became the planet’s favorite euphemism…
**Earth’s Season Finale: Aliens Drop the Cliff-Hanger We All Secretly Wanted** GENEVA—The final episode of *Planet Earth* apparently aired last night when a coalition of extraterrestrial focus groups announced, with the polite urgency of a Swiss flight attendant, that humanity’s multi-millennium run has been “declined renewal.” Viewers—that would be eight billion of us—were informed via…
Every season, the Atlantic coughs up another cyclonic tantrum, and the planet’s newsrooms perform their synchronized grimace: cue stock footage of palm fronds doing interpretive dance, cut to a soaked correspondent shouting into a GoPro like a maritime influencer. Meanwhile, in places where English is merely the language of subtitles, hurricane season is less a…
Lightning: The Planet’s Flashy Reminder That We’re Still Renting Space Here By the time you finish this sentence, roughly 600 bolts of lightning will have detonated somewhere between the Arctic Circle and Tierra del Fuego, each one delivering a crisp 30,000 °C reminder that the atmosphere is not to be trifled with. In an age…
