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Current Events | International

Hurricane Gabrielle’s World Tour: How One Mid-Atlantic Tantrum Became a Global Stress Test
ByDaveslocker 23 September 2025

Hurricane Gabrielle, the season’s latest drama queen, tore across the mid-Atlantic this week like a trust-fund influencer discovering third-world poverty: loud, destructive, and absolutely convinced the planet revolves around her. While forecasters dutifully measured wind speeds and barometric tantrums, the rest of humanity watched the same rerun we always do—satellite loops, breathless correspondents in rain…

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Current Events | International

M25 Closures: How Britain’s Circular Nightmare Became the World’s Traffic Circus
ByDaveslocker 22 September 2025

**The M25: Humanity’s Latest Attempt at Circular Self-Destruction** While the world’s superpowers engage in their favorite pastime of measuring nuclear capabilities and the planet politely requests we stop setting it on fire, Britain has orchestrated its own unique contribution to global chaos: turning the M25 into the world’s largest, most expensive parking lot. Again. The…

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International | Trending

Miller Moss: The Tiny Green Invader Quietly Eating the World’s Roofs (and Sanity)
ByDaveslocker 21 September 2025

Miller Moss: The Global Fungus That Eats Your Roof, Your Dreams, and Maybe Your Sovereignty By the time you notice the greenish fuzz creeping across your terracotta tiles in Seville, it has already colonized slate roofs in Sheffield, asphalt shingles in Seattle, and the corrugated tin favelas of Rio. Miller Moss—scientifically “Dicranoweisia cirrata” for anyone…

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Analysis | International

When the Lights Go Out: A Global Tour of Humanity’s Shared Blackout Comedy
ByDaveslocker 19 September 2025

The lights blinked out in my corner of [Your City] at 19:43 local time last night, a civic event so routine it barely trended on neighborhood WhatsApp groups. Yet the ripple effect was instant: Wi-Fi flat-lined, Netflix froze mid-cliff-hanger, and half a streetful of home-office heroes discovered that their laptops’ “100 %” battery indicators are…

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Current Events | International

Global Wet: How Your Flooded Basement Became the World’s Newest Border
ByDaveslocker 18 September 2025

Basement Submarines and the End of the World A Dispatch from the Planet’s Lower-Middle Floors By the time you read this, someone in Jakarta, Jakarta-on-the-Rhine (Cologne), or a newly soggy suburb of Detroit is probably up to their ankles in what used to be a wine cellar. The flooded basement—once the punch line of American…

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Current Events | International

Euston Station: The Empire’s Last Waiting Room and the World’s Favorite Cautionary Tale
ByDaveslocker 18 September 2025

Euston Station, or How the Empire’s Front Door Learned to Love the Queue By our London bureau chief, still dazed from the 07:42 to Manchester Piccadilly On any given Tuesday morning, while Singapore’s Changi offers orchids and a butterfly dome and Dubai International tempts travelers with indoor waterfalls, London’s Euston Station greets humanity with the…

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Analysis | International

Goodnight, RFK: How Washington’s Crumbling Colosseum Mirrors the World’s Waning Empires
ByDaveslocker 17 September 2025

RFK Stadium, the concrete bruise squatting on the banks of Washington’s Anacostia River, is finally being put out of its misery. Demolition crews are already nibbling at its 1961 bones, and within a year the only thing left will be a pile of rebar and a faint smell of stale beer and broken dreams. To…

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Analysis | International

Severn Bridge: The £8 Million Monument to Anglo-Welsh Cooperation (And Toll-Paying Resentment)
ByDaveslocker 15 September 2025

**The Severn Bridge: Humanity’s 1.6-Mile Monument to Not Getting Wet Ankles** While the rest of the world debates whether bridges should connect people or keep them out, Wales and England have been quietly perfecting the art of suspended cooperation since 1966. The Severn Bridge—two miles of steel and concrete that somehow manages to unite the…

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Current Events | International

Toluca to Puebla: Inside Mexico’s 120-Kilometer Metaphor for a Planet Stuck in Traffic
ByDaveslocker 14 September 2025

Toluca to Puebla: The 120-Kilometer Fault Line Where Mexico Explains the Planet to Itself By Our Man in the Middle of Somewhere Every country keeps a stretch of asphalt that functions as its emotional ECG strip. The United States has I-95, France has the périphérique, and Mexico, bless its melodramatic heart, has the 95D from…

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Current Events | International

Manchester Piccadilly: The World’s Waiting Room Where Every Train Is a Diplomatic Incident
ByDaveslocker 10 September 2025

Manchester Piccadilly: The Last Stop Before the Apocalypse (and Everywhere Else) By the time your train wheezes into Manchester Piccadilly, you’ve already crossed more invisible borders than most diplomats manage in a lifetime. One moment you’re gliding past hedgerows that look reassuringly English, the next you’re decanted into a glass-and-steel cathedral that insists, with brutal…

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Analysis | International

From D-Day to Gridlock: How Eisenhower Quietly Remade the World—Then Sent It a Bill
ByDaveslocker 9 September 2025

The General Who Invented Traffic Jams and Détente: Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Accidental World Tour By Our Man in Geneva, still waiting for the diplomatic pouch to arrive on time The first thing you notice about Dwight David Eisenhower—if you’re unfortunate enough to be stuck behind a column of Belgian tourists on the A7 outside Lyon—is…

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International | Technology

Global Rail Renaissance: Why the 19th Century’s Greatest Invention Is Still Outrunning the Future
ByDaveslocker 8 September 2025

The iron serpent, that 19th-century miracle we still pretend is the future, is slithering across the globe with renewed swagger. From Mumbai’s sweat-soaked commuter carriages to Switzerland’s punctual-as-a-Swiss-banker milk runs, trains are enjoying what marketing departments call a “renaissance” and what the rest of us call “the moment when humanity remembers it can move horizontally…

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