There are only two things guaranteed to bring a room full of diplomats to blows: a disputed offshore oil field and the question of whose national junior hockey program is merely corrupt versus genuinely evil. Hockey teams, those quaint collections of padded gladiators who speak exclusively in clichés and dental records, have quietly become the…
The Man Who Gave the World Its Newest Addiction—And Pretended He Was Just Selling Pickaxes By Dave’s Locker International Desk Somewhere between the karaoke bars of Taipei and the fluorescent purgatory of a Santa Clara conference room, Jensen Huang has spent the last thirty years convincing otherwise sober governments that their future depends on a…
The Bridge of Spies: A Cold War Waltz That Never Quite Ended By Dave’s Locker International Desk Berlin—There’s something irresistibly comic about the fact that the most famous prisoner exchange in modern history happened on a bridge named after a dead communist, supervised by men who would all eventually be played by Oscar winners. Welcome…
