Alex Michelsen: The Accidental Emissary of a World That Forgot How to Care In the grand tradition of overnight sensations nobody asked for, 19-year-old American tennis phenom Alex Michelsen has sprinted onto the ATP tour with the grace of a caffeinated gazelle and the subtlety of a tax audit. To the average citizen of this…
Generation Z, the planet’s first true digital natives, arrived squalling somewhere between the late-1990s and the early-2010s, depending on which demographer you bribe. They are now roughly 12 to 27 years old—old enough to vote, drink (where legal), and still be sent to bed without Wi-Fi. Internationally, they are the largest generational cohort in human…
Gen Z Years, or How to Age Gracefully in a World That Never Learned to Adult by Our Correspondent Somewhere Between TikTok and Existential Despair The generational cartographers at Pew finally drew the line: 1997–2012. In other words, if your first phone had Snake instead of Spotify, congratulations—you’re a millennial fossil. If you learned to…
Naomi Osaka Turns 26: A Global Birthday in the Age of Perpetual Crises By Dave’s Locker International Desk TOKYO—Somewhere between North Korea’s latest missile tantrum and the IMF’s revised “we’re-all-screwed” growth forecast, Naomi Osaka blew out 26 candles last week. That’s 26 revolutions around a sun that, according to the IPCC, now feels like a…
