Emmanuel Macron: Europe’s Last Adult in the Room, or Just the Fastest to the Exit? by Dave’s Locker International Correspondent Paris—In the grand global theatre where most leaders arrive with the subtlety of a chainsaw juggling act, Emmanuel Macron glides onstage like a philosophy professor who accidentally wandered into a bar fight. Tailored suit, unblinking…
Jacinda Ardern’s Exit: A Global Parable for Leaders Who Read the Room (and the Polls) WELLINGTON—When Jacinda Ardern announced she was “leaving before I’m burnt out,” half the planet nodded in exhausted solidarity while the other half frantically googled “New Zealand—still exists?” The headline was irresistible: a young, progressive woman voluntarily surrendering power, citing mere…
The Man Who Refuses to Leave the Stage: Netanyahu’s Global Encore By Our Correspondent, still jet-lagged and morally fatigued Tel-Aviv—Look closely at any modern map and you’ll notice a curious phenomenon: borders shift, currencies collapse, even the climate renegotiates its terms, yet one constant remains—Benjamin Netanyahu, squinting into the klieg lights like a cat that…
Kathmandu’s weather is famously unreliable—monsoon one minute, smog the next—so it’s fitting that Sher Bahadur Deuba has popped in and out of the prime minister’s chair more often than a Himalayan teahouse changes its Wi-Fi password. On 13 July 2021, the 75-year-old liberal warhorse saddled up for his fifth non-consecutive term, a feat that would…
The Global Brotherhood of Commanders: A Field Guide to the Men (and Occasionally Women) Who Tell Everyone Else What to Do By Dave’s Foreign Desk, somewhere between a G-7 cocktail reception and a bunker in Burkina Faso There is a moment, usually around 2:00 a.m. local time, when every commander on earth—regardless of flag, ideology,…
