Griner for Bout: Inside the Global Bazaar of Hostage Diplomacy
Brittney Griner and the Art of the Hostage-for-Oligarch Swap By Our Correspondent in the Departures Lounge, Sheremetyevo Duty-Free When the news broke that the 6-foot-9 Phoenix Mercury center had been marched off to a penal colony outside Moscow for the crime of packing 0.7 grams of hashish oil, the planet reacted with the collective gasp…