Earth Day 2024: A Global Movement at a Crossroads Earth Day 2024 arrives at a pivotal moment in environmental history. First celebrated in 1970, the event has evolved from a grassroots protest into a worldwide phenomenon that unites governments, corporations, and individuals under a single banner: planetary preservation. This year’s theme, “Planet vs. Plastics,” underscores…
Nvidia: The Green Giant Making the World’s Dictators and Democracies Equally Dependent by Our Correspondent in a Café Where the Wi-Fi Is Faster Than the Justice System If Silicon Valley had a Godfather, it would wear a leather jacket, speak with a mild Taiwanese-American accent, and answer to “Jensen.” Nvidia, the company that started life…
Lucid Motors—Silicon Valley’s latest attempt to make batteries sexy—has finally started shipping its Air sedans to customers who apparently believe that paying six figures for the privilege of explaining “No, it’s not a Tesla” is a personality. From Riyadh showrooms to Rotterdam harbors, the Lucid Air is gliding onto roads just in time for a…
The Curious Case of Inka Williams: How a 20-Something From Byron Bay Became the UN’s Accidental Climate Poster Child By Rufus Delacroix, International Affairs Desk SYDNEY—If you’ve never heard of Inka Williams, congratulations: you still possess a few un-monetised neurons. The 24-year-old Australian model-cum-activist has spent the past decade perfecting the lucrative art of looking…
Tourists usually flock to the Costa del Sol for sangria, sunburn, and the reassuring fantasy that the Mediterranean is a postcard rather than a crime scene. So when the Spanish press christened last month’s quadruple homicide in Marbella “The Sunshine Murders,” the branding stuck faster than cheap sunscreen. Four bodies—two British crypto-advisers, a retired Danish…
LUSAKA—Somewhere between the copper mines that still glint like the dreams of a 1970s commodities trader and the Casablanca skyline that Instagram insists is “just like Spain, but cheaper,” Zambia and Morocco have wandered into the same geopolitical boxing ring. Their fight card isn’t a World Cup qualifier—though God knows both nations could use the…
When the name Zach Mitchell first crackled across the encrypted WhatsApp group of Nairobi-based stringers, nobody reached for the atlas. In 2024, a random Anglo-Saxon handle might be a crypto fugitive, a TikTok propagandist, or a private-jet mercenary en route to rearrange borders. Turned out he was merely the latest American to discover that the…
