**The World’s Most Dangerous Reality Show: Ukraine’s Geopolitical Theater** Two years into Europe’s most unnecessary war since someone decided the Habsburgs needed a slight nudge in 1914, Ukraine has become the planet’s most depressing reality television series—except the contestants can’t vote themselves off the island, and the producers are nuclear powers with questionable impulse control….
**The Eternal Prince: How Harry Became the World’s Most Expensive Expat** In the grand theater of modern monarchy—where tiaras meet trauma and bloodlines meet brand lines—Prince Harry has accomplished what no revolutionary, republican, or rational human has managed in centuries: he’s made the British royal family look almost relatable. Almost. From his current perch in…
**The Last Movie Star: Denzel Washington and the Global Art of Not Giving a Damn** In a world where TikTok dancers become geopolitical pundits and reality TV hosts morph into nuclear-armed leaders, Denzel Washington remains stubbornly, gloriously analog. While the planet burns through its fifteenth minute of fame, this 69-year-old actor from Mount Vernon, New…
Emergency Alert Test: The Planet’s Loudest Group Therapy Session The shrill, unmistakable screech that rattled phones from Reykjavík to Riyadh this week was not your cousin’s crypto scam, nor a push notification from a meditation app you forgot you paid for. It was the global Emergency Alert Test, an international mass-bleep designed to remind eight…
