The Curious Case of Josh Giddey: When an Australian Kid Becomes a Geopolitical Basketball Somewhere between a flat white in Melbourne and a triple-shot cortado in Madrid, the NBA’s latest diplomatic incident dribbled into view. Josh Giddey—6-foot-8, passport stamped “Oz,” haircut suggesting he still cuts his own fringe—has become the league’s most improbable piece of…
From Bangkok boardrooms to Berlin biergartens, the phrase “Trump-Epstein” has become a sort of global Rorschach test: everyone sees the same inkblot yet claims the other side is hallucinating. For some, it’s a smoking gun wrapped in a subpoena; for others, a convenient deflection from their own preferred swamp monster. Either way, the world is…
Robert Kraft: Portrait of a Billionaire in the Age of Globalized Schadenfreude By the time the news of Robert Kraft’s alleged misadventure at a Florida strip-mall spa reached the breakfast tables of Singapore, the story had already been translated into seven languages, meme-ified in four alphabets, and turned into a cautionary haiku on Japanese Twitter….
