Moon Tonight: The World’s Oldest Reality Show Returns for Another Season By Our Man in the Cold Empty Void Dateline: Everywhere and Nowhere—Tonight, the moon will rise above Pyongyang and Paris, above the favelas of Rio and the gated compounds of Davos, above both the last polar bear and the newest refugee camp. Same orb,…
Tomorrow’s Weather: A Global Forecast of Mild Panic and Strategic Umbrella Deployment By Our Correspondent Who Has Already Lost Three Brollies to the Gods of Irony SEOUL—Across the planet, the phrase “내일 날씨” (“naeil nalssi” – tomorrow’s weather) is being whispered, Googled, or barked at smart speakers in 167 languages. It sounds benign, like asking…
**The Long Walk: Humanity’s Endless March Toward Nowhere in Particular** *By Our Jaded Foreign Correspondent, Still Walking* The Long Walk is no longer a punishment devised by sadistic drill sergeants or a dystopian Stephen King plot device. It has become the defining metaphor of our age: a global, multi-directional forced march in which billions participate,…
Scratch marks the spot—whether on a lottery ticket in Lagos, a DJ’s vinyl in Berlin, or the arm of a refugee who just realized the camp’s Wi-Fi password is “Password123.” The word itself is a global chameleon: noun, verb, existential sigh. Peel back one layer and you find the entire planet trying to itch an…
Community, Circa 2024: A Field Report from the Glorious Ruins of Togetherness By L. M. Valdez, Foreign Correspondent, presently somewhere between a WeWork in Singapore and a refugee tent in Gaziantep — The word “community” once conjured images of kindly grandmothers swapping soup recipes over white picket fences. Today, the same word is more likely…
