Diane Abbott: Britain’s Walking Political Rorschach Test and the World’s Favorite Punchline By Dave’s Locker International Affairs Desk PARIS—In the grand bazaar of global politics, where every nation hawks its own bespoke outrage, Diane Abbott has become the souvenir snow-globe everyone loves to shake. From Lagos taxi drivers to Tokyo policy wonks, mention the MP…
Oakland, California—city of perpetual reinvention, birthplace of both the Black Panthers and artisanal toast—has once again reminded the planet that its most reliable export isn’t software or sourdough but gunfire. On a balmy Wednesday evening, a modest fusillade erupted near Lake Merritt, that algae-fringed jewel where joggers from 40 countries dodge goose droppings and, apparently,…
David Muir, the immaculate-haired baritone who materializes nightly on American screens like a hologram from a better-behaved timeline, has become an unlikely export. While U.S. viewers treat his World News Tonight as a civic sacrament—somewhere between prayer and pharmaceutical ad—audiences abroad increasingly see Muir as the last functioning appliance in a house whose wiring is…
