Love Island Games: Humanity’s Diplomatic Breakthrough—Or Just Another Reason to Question Evolution By [REDACTED], Senior Cynic-at-Large Dateline: Everywhere Wi-Fi still reaches It began, as most global crises now do, with a push notification: “Love Island Games is live on Peacock.” Within minutes, VPN servers from Reykjavík to Rangoon lit up like Christmas trees in a…
Tyler Johnson and the Curious Alchemy of Global Attention By Dave’s Locker Foreign Desk It’s 3 a.m. in Dubai, which means the trading screens have just gone quiet and the city’s army of sleep-deprived analysts are scrolling Instagram to see what exactly Tyler Johnson did this time. By 4 a.m. in London, the FT’s early-bird…
From the Deck of a Slowly Sinking Cruise Ship Somewhere Between the Gulf of Mexico and the Mariana Trench by Our Correspondent-at-Large, still waiting for the Wi-Fi to load The phrase “Sam Houston vs Hawaii” sounds like the kind of fever dream you’d get after eating too much poke washed down with lukewarm Lone Star…
Ohio State Football: America’s Gladiatorial Cult Reaches Out to the World By Our Man in the Cheap Seats, Buenos Aires The first thing to understand is that in most countries, the word “football” conjures images of Lionel Messi gliding past defenders or a rain-soaked Champions League night in Manchester. In Ohio, however, it summons 102,780…
