# Davos: Where the Global Elite Mingle, Deal, and Occasionally Ski Alright, folks, let’s talk about Davos. No, not the fictional town from *The Shining*—though, let’s be real, the global elite gathering in a remote, snowed-in resort does sound like the setup for a horror movie. But in this case, the horror is just the…
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…
Van Jones, American Dream Whisperer, Hits the Global Road by our correspondent in several time zones at once In the plush, air-conditioned purgatory of international conferences—where delegates recycle the same three PowerPoint fonts and the coffee tastes like watered-down regret—Van Jones has become a kind of recurring decimal. From Davos to Dubai, COP summits to…
Club Brujas – Mónaco: A Tale of Two Tax Havens and One Very Public Break-Up By the time the first drone shot of the super-yachts hit Instagram, half the planet was already rubber-necking. Club Brujas—an ultra-exclusive, invitation-only “private members society” founded by a Belgian telecom heir and a retired Colombian reggaeton manager—had chosen the Port…
From the rooftop bar of the W in Bangkok, where the skyline looks like a hedge fund’s screensaver, an Italian fashion buyer swipes her American Express Platinum to settle a tab that could finance a small coup in the Sahel. Halfway across the planet, somewhere above Greenland, a Norwegian consultant uses the same card to…
From the Mariana Trench of disgrace to a corner office in Brussels, Alex Acosta has become the world’s most unlikely export since Florida decided mosquitoes needed a public-relations boost. Once the U.S. Labor Secretary who gifted billionaire sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein a plea deal so velvet it could upholster a Gulfstream, Acosta has spent the last…
**The Epstein Files: When the World’s Elite Get Caught with Their Pants Down (and Their Flight Logs Exposed)** The recent unsealing of court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein has gifted the global public what it always wanted: a peek into the black book of a dead financier who apparently ran the world’s most exclusive social…
Wentworth, England – Somewhere between the first Pro-Am cocktail and the final corporate-suite handshake, the BMW PGA Championship manages to convince the planet that a small Surrey estate is, for one week, the gravitational center of world order. That the order in question involves men in pastel cashmere politely demolishing each other’s egos is, apparently,…
Dirtbag Billionaire: A Global Field Guide to the New Gilded Age’s Anti-Hero By the time you finish this paragraph, another hoodie-clad centi-millionaire will have declared himself a “dirtbag billionaire” on a podcast recorded from the cargo hold of his Gulfstream. The phrase—equal parts self-deprecating marketing stunt and accurate character assessment—has already achieved the rare linguistic…
PARIS – Somewhere between the croissants and the contempt, another piece of paper has fluttered out of the Jeffrey Epstein file and landed, like a soiled feather, at Donald Trump’s expensively shod feet. The “Trump-Epstein letter” – a single page, undated, signed with the unmistakable Sharpie scrawl of the former US president – has triggered…
Harvard, that venerable brick-and-ivy ATM for the ruling class, has lately become the planet’s most expensive piñata. From Brasília boardrooms to Bangalore coffee shops, the university is now cited as shorthand for a global elite that can’t quite decide whether it’s enlightened or simply entitled. When the Supreme Court clipped its affirmative-action wings last June,…
Courtney Wild and the Global Epidemic of Disposable People By Marcello Vanzi, International Correspondent, Dave’s Locker PARIS—If you squint through the diesel haze drifting off the Boulevard Périphérique, Courtney Wild’s story looks almost Parisian: a woman reduced to a headline, a case file, a cautionary tale. Yet the same plot points—powerful men, silenced women, and…
