Errol Musk, the 79-year-old patriarch of the world’s most famous surname with a silent “k,” has spent the last week making the global gossip circuit feel like it missed a software update. From a sun-bleached patio in Pretoria, South Africa, he cheerfully confirmed to the tabloid *Die Son* that he has quietly fathered a second…
**Anthony Volpe: The Shortstop Who Proves America Still Exports Dreams Instead of Democracy** *From our international desk, where we watch American exceptionalism strike out in real time* The global village received another shipment of American mythology this week, packaged in pinstripes and delivered via a 22-year-old from Manhattan who apparently decided that $3.7 million wasn’t…
The Resolution Foundation, a modest think-tank headquartered in a grayish corner of London, has spent the past fifteen years doing something almost quaint: publishing numbers that actually reflect what life feels like for the bottom 90 percent of humanity. In a world where central bankers treat 2 percent inflation like a holy relic and billionaires…
US News College Rankings: The Annual Olympics of Institutional Narcissism by “Roving Correspondent” (currently filing from a Wi-Fi-enabled yurt in Ulaanbaatar) Every September, like clockwork, American academia straps on its spandex of self-regard and sprints onto the world stage to see who can flex the hardest. The US News & World Report college rankings have…
**The Anthem Nobody Ordered: How Good Charlotte Became the Unofficial Soundtrack to Global Dysfunction** *By our correspondent who still has “Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous” stuck in his head two decades later* If you want to understand the early-2000s geopolitical mood without cracking a single World Bank report, simply cue up any Good Charlotte…
Xavier Worthy: The 4.21-Second Passport That Just Got Every Continent’s Attention By Our Correspondent Somewhere Between Immigration Control and the 40-Yard Dash PARIS—In the same week that the UN admitted it will miss every sustainable-development target and the Doomsday Clock nudged to 89 seconds from midnight, a 20-year-old from Fresno, California, reminded the planet that…
The Glorious Commodification of a Tight End, or How Travis Kelce Became a Walking Sovereign Wealth Fund PARIS — While French pensioners protest the rise in retirement age to 64, an American man whose primary job is to catch an inflated leather ovum has quietly amassed a net worth north of US $70 million—enough, if…
The Forty-Niners, those bearded fortune-hunters of 1849, have become America’s most durable export: a brand, a mascot, an NFL franchise, and—if you squint at the world’s commodity ports and crypto exchanges—an eternal human type. From the Klondike to the Congo, from Silicon Valley’s foosball lounges to the fluorescent aisles of Dubai duty-free, the phrase still…
**Barcelona vs Getafe: A Microcosm of Global Inequality Where the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Red Cards** In the grand theater of modern football, where billionaires play Monopoly with clubs and players earn more in a week than most nations spend on education in a year, Barcelona versus Getafe serves as a delightful…
Dodger, noun: a person who artfully sidesteps consequences, taxes, truth, or traffic wardens. The word has sprinted far from its humble 18th-century London origins—when it merely described fleet-footed pickpockets on the Strand—and is now doing a full Usain-Bolt victory lap around the planet. From the boardrooms of Zug to the yacht marinas of Limassol, dodging…
Kent State vs Florida State: When a March Madness Play-In Becomes a Geopolitical Microcosm By the time the final buzzer sounded in Dayton, Ohio, the planet had already spun 1,670 kilometers eastward and several million tweets had reduced the game to a five-second GIF. Yet for those of us watching from time zones where “March…
So the lights finally went green in Jeddah, and—surprise!—the same three alphabet-soup teams that hoard 87 % of Earth’s downforce still hog the top nine places. Verstappen nailed pole, Leclerc will start second, and Russell third, which means Netflix can recycle last year’s script and simply swap the track graphics. Cynics (hello) will note that…
