PARIS—While the rest of the planet obsesses over wars, elections, and whatever Elon Musk tweeted at 3 a.m., the United States is already busy rehearsing pageantry for the 2026 NFL Draft in Las Vegas. Yes, the same city whose water supply is evaporating faster than a crypto wallet will soon welcome 32 billionaires and their…
Antalya, Turkey—Where the Sun Now Comes with a Side of Smoke By Our Correspondent Who Packed SPF 50 and a Fire Blanket ANTALYA, Turkey — In the glossy brochures, the Turkish Riviera is still a sun-kissed miracle of turquoise water and all-inclusive cocktails. In real time, it looks more like the inside of a tandoor…
Crypto: The Global Casino Where Everyone’s a High Roller Until They’re Not By Our Man in the Wreckage, filed from somewhere with spotty Wi-Fi and excellent whiskey In the beginning, there was the blockchain, and the blockchain was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of fiat. Then someone said, “Let there…
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI – Somewhere between the Missouri River’s lazy meander and the distant hum of NATO air-traffic control, the Kansas City Chiefs politely disembowelled the New York Giants 27-17 on Sunday. To a planet juggling heat domes, sovereign-debt brinkmanship, and the slow-motion collapse of social media civility, the box score looked almost quaint: Patrick…
From the banks of the Euphrates to the neon canyons of Tokyo, the name Jaxson Dart is now muttered with the same hushed reverence once reserved for popes, pop stars, and that guy who figured out how to deep-fry Coca-Cola. Yes, the Ole Miss quarterback—product of Utah prep fields, USC transfer portal purgatory, and a…
MSC Cruises: The Last Floating Micro-Empire Before the Icebergs Melt By Matteo “Ports of Callous” Rossi, Foreign Correspondent at Large Somewhere between the Strait of Gibraltar and the existential dread of a warming planet, the MSC World Europa slid past the Rock with 6,762 souls aboard, each clutching a welcome piña colada and the faint…
Nantucket—an island whose name sounds like a sneeze and whose property prices make Swiss bankers weep—has quietly become the world’s most exclusive lifeboat. While the rest of the planet trades memes about climate apocalypse, the global elite have been rehearsing for it on this 14-by-3.5-mile sandbar 30 miles off Cape Cod. Their rehearsal, naturally, involves…
Montez Sweat: The Defensive End Exporting American Anxiety to a World Already on Edge By the time Montez Sweat was traded from the Chicago Bears to the Washington Commanders last October, the planet had already endured two years of pandemic, spiraling inflation, and the creeping realization that every smartphone notification might herald either a missile…
The Curious Global Phenomenon of Brasileirão: How Brazil’s Chaotic Football Carnival Became the World’s Favorite Morality Play By Dave’s Locker International Desk RIO DE JANEIRO—Every Sunday from May to December, a country roughly the size of the continental United States momentarily forgets its inflation, its political telenovela, and the fact that half the Amazon is…
Santos 1–2 Atlético San Luis: A Micro-Drama Staged on the Fault Lines of an Imploding Planet Somewhere between the 38th minute and the apocalypse, Santos Laguna conceded a second goal to Atlético San Luis, and the cosmic shrug could be heard from Torreón to TikTok. On paper it was merely Matchday 17 of Liga MX’s…
Alex de Minaur and the Great Southern Hemisphere Bluff By “Gravedigger” Garcia, International Sports Correspondent SYDNEY—Somewhere between the 17th time-zone change and my third airline meal that tasted like laminated regret, I realized the planet has conspired to make us care deeply about a 5-foot-9 Australian who hits a yellow ball for a living. Alex…
Tory Horton and the Global Glitch: How One Man’s Name Became the Planet’s Newest Rorschach Test By Our Correspondent, Somewhere Between Despair and Duty In the grand, gaudy casino of world affairs—where microchips play roulette with truth and every national leader claims to hold the winning chip—there emerged this week an unlikely ball bouncing across…
