Savannah Guthrie: America’s Alarm Clock at the End of the World Dispatch from the Bureau of Smiling Through the Apocalypse By the time the sun claws its way over the Pacific, Savannah Guthrie has already interviewed two heads of state, moderated a town-hall-slash-brawl, and reminded a bleary-eyed planet that yes, it is indeed Tuesday. For…
Alan Brazil: When a Breakfast Show Becomes a Geopolitical Barometer By Our Man in the Departures Lounge, Dave’s Locker International Desk The name “Alan Brazil” sounds like a low-budget airline you’d regret booking at 3 a.m., yet it belongs to a man who has somehow turned fried eggs, betting odds, and the pre-caffeine grumbles of…
NEWSROUND: THE PLANET’S DAILY DOSE OF WHIPLASH, NOW WITH EXTRA SCHADENFREUDE By Our Correspondent, filed from Somewhere with Spotty Wi-Fi The word “newsround” used to sound quaint—like something a BBC announcer chirped between puppet segments while your toast burned. Today, however, it is the metronome of global anxiety: an endless, algorithm-curated carousel of triumph and…
Rosie O’Donnell, the Human Rorschach Test No One Asked For By our correspondent in the cheap seats of the global amphitheater PARIS—Somewhere between the Seine and the Hudson, the name “Rosie O’Donnell” has become a kind of international litmus paper, turning one color for Americans who still think Twitter is a town square, another for…
Kaitlan Collins and the Global Gladiator Pit A dispatch from the front row of the world’s most expensive reality show By the time the sun rises in Kyiv, Kaitlan Collins has already made three governments flinch. By dusk in Jakarta, she’s on every diplomatic WhatsApp group, her questions clipped, translated, and weaponised. The 32-year-old CNN…
The Curious Diplomacy of Erin Andrews: How a Sideline Reporter Accidentally Became a Global Rorschach Test By Dave’s International Desk Paris—In a world where heads of state can’t reliably keep their Zoom cameras off, Erin Andrews has improbably become a one-woman foreign-exchange program. The American sportscaster—once best known for asking sweaty linebackers how they feel—now…
Jesse Watters and the Global Export of Performative Outrage A field report from the international desk By the time Jesse Watters’ latest prime-time monologue ricocheted from a Fox studio in Midtown Manhattan to a phone screen in Lagos, then to a bar television in Warsaw, and finally to a group-chat in Manila, the clip had…
Sheridan Smith and the Global Anxiety Supply Chain By Dave’s Locker Foreign Correspondent-at-Large Somewhere between a UN climate summit and a TikTok livestream of a cat wearing a tiny tuxedo, the planet found itself briefly transfixed by the latest “Sheridan Smith drama.” For readers who have spent the past decade in a cave—presumably a more…
The Curious Case of Sophie Turner, or How the North Remembers the Global Soap Opera By the time the news alerts pinged from Reykjavík to Rabat, Sophie Turner—once best known for looking stoically miserable in a fur cloak—had already become a trans-Atlantic custody piñata. A routine divorce filing in Miami-Dade County ricocheted across time zones,…
