In the grand, increasingly surreal tapestry of 21st-century geopolitics, where billionaires launch phallic rockets to nowhere and entire nations debate whether water is a human right, the name “Kyle Monangai” has begun to flicker on diplomatic radar screens from Tokyo to Timbuktu. Who, you ask, is this Monangai fellow? A Bond villain with a climate-altering…
Nate Landman: The Linebacker Who Accidentally Became a Geopolitical Punchline If you squint hard enough from the cheap seats of the global amphitheater, Nate Landman’s story resembles the kind of parable the World Economic Forum would commission after three negronis: a South African-born, Colorado-raised tackling machine who now earns his keep in Atlanta, proving that…
Raiders Depth Chart: A Global Power Ranking of Hope, Hubris, and Third-String Linebackers By Our Correspondent in the Cheap Seats Las Vegas—The Raiders released their latest depth chart this week, a tidy Excel sheet that purports to map the hierarchy of 53 men who chase an oblong ball for money while wearing armor. To the…
Budapest, 3:07 a.m. local time—while the rest of the city nurses pálinka hangovers and debates whether the Danube is rising fast enough to solve the parliament-building real-estate problem, a man named Za’Darius Smith is simultaneously being discussed in five different languages on three continents. Not bad for someone whose surname sounds like an investment bank…
