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Chicago Tribune’s Global Swan Song: How One City’s Newspaper Became the World’s Warning Label
ByDaveslocker 9 September 2025

From the Ruins of Local Truth, a Global Mirror: Chicago Tribune as the World’s Cautionary Comic Strip By Our Man in the Departures Lounge, somewhere between Gate 47 and Existential Dread Chicago—The city that once gave the planet speakeasies, improv comedy, and a certain brand of brisk, sub-zero stoicism—has lately been best known for exporting…

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The Global Ghost Named Laila Cunningham: How a Non-Person Became Everyone’s Favorite Enemy
ByDaveslocker 7 September 2025

Laila Cunningham Doesn’t Exist (And That’s the Whole Point) By the time the Reuters alert pinged in Lagos, the Financial Times had already drafted her obituary, and a Berlin think-tank had scheduled a webinar on “Cunninghamism and the Collapse of Western Soft Power.” The only snag: no one has ever been able to prove that…

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