The Cardinals’ Defensive Coordinator: A Post-Imperial Job Posting in a World That Forgot How to Tackle By the time you finish reading this sentence, another Asian port city will have sunk two centimeters thanks to climate change, a European finance minister will have blamed migrants for bond yields, and somewhere in Glendale, Arizona, the Arizona…
RAMALLAH—Drive an hour east from Tel Aviv and the Mediterranean’s carefree hummus-and-hookup vibe dissolves into something older, heavier, and stubbornly unresolved. Welcome to the West Bank, a 2,200-square-mile slice of hill country that the 21st century keeps trying—and failing—to file under “finished business.” Half museum of colonial cartography, half real-time experiment in asymmetric sociology, the…
**The Peculiar Export of American Anxiety: How the John Brown Gun Club Went Global** In a world where irony died sometime around 2016 and was buried in an unmarked grave, the international proliferation of American armed leftist groups might seem like just another Tuesday in our collective fever dream. Yet here we are, watching the…
The Hack Cast: A Global Theatre Where Everyone’s the Fool and the Script Keeps Rewriting Itself By Diego “Dredge” Moreau, Senior Cynic-at-Large, Dave’s Locker Bureau of Diminishing Returns The phrase “the hack cast” sounds like a rejected Netflix pitch about rogue dermatologists, but in 2024 it is the depressingly accurate collective noun for the planet’s…
Tony Blair Rides Again: The Eternal Comeback Kid of the Post-Liberal Order An International Post-Mortem on the Man Who Refuses to Lie Down By the time you finish this sentence, Tony Blair will have appeared on a panel in Singapore, launched a commission in Abuja, and offered “strategic advice” to a clutch of nervous Gulf…
**The Liberal Paradox: How a Word Meaning ‘Free’ Became Everyone’s Favorite Insult** *From Buenos Aires to Beijing, everyone’s either a liberal or accusing someone else of being one—with roughly the same level of enthusiasm you’d reserve for a root canal.* In the grand theater of global politics, “liberal” has become the Swiss Army knife of…
**The Final Escape Hatch: How Spacecraft Became Humanity’s Most Expensive Coping Mechanism** While Earth continues its slow-motion implosion—climate negotiations that resemble a particularly tedious dinner party where nobody wants to pick up the check, democracies flirting with authoritarianism like teenagers testing boundaries, and supply chains snapping like cheap rubber bands—the world’s brightest minds have collectively…
Bill Clinton, the Man Who Taught the World to Love a Flawed Superpower By Dave’s Locker Global Correspondent PARIS—Somewhere between the foie-gras carts of the Champs-Élysées and the kebab stands of Istanbul, you can still hear the faint echo of a saxophone riff that once sold the American Century as a never-ending cocktail hour. That…
From Jakarta to Johannesburg, the name “Obama” still functions as international shorthand for a very specific cocktail of audacity, eloquence, and the faint smell of drone exhaust. When Barack Hussein Obama II left the White House in January 2017, the global applause was thunderous—partly because it meant the planet had survived eight years of a…
Ric Grenell, the man who once served as Donald Trump’s acting Director of National Intelligence for the length of a European vacation, has lately been auditioning for a far grander role: self-appointed viceroy of the entire planet. From Tirana to Tegucigalpa, foreign ministries now keep a “Grenell folder” next to the one marked “Act of…
James Comey: The Man Who Made Bureaucracy a Global Spectator Sport By Our Man in the Cheap Seats, Watching the World Burn PARIS—In the grand tradition of international intrigue, few things are as reliably entertaining as watching a tall, earnest American ex-FBI director wander the planet like a remorseful giraffe, signing books and explaining—again—why he…
Ryder Cup Opening Ceremony: A Pageant of Flags, Fortune, and Thinly-Veiled National Anxiety by our correspondent in Marco Simone, nursing a Campari in the media tent The Ryder Cup opening ceremony has always been golf’s answer to Eurovision: flags the size of small nations, anthems belted out by choirs that sound like they’ve been told…
