Zachariah Branch, a 19-year-old wide receiver from Las Vegas, has spent the last year sprinting across American football fields so quickly that satellites briefly lose him. To most of the planet—where “first down” is still mistaken for a military order—the name registers about as strongly as a local bus timetable in Ulan Bator. Yet the…
The world’s newsrooms barely had time to update their “Mass Shooting in America” templates before the Utah story elbowed its way onto the wire: a 15-year-old at a junior high in the town of Bountiful allegedly turned a handgun on himself in full view of classmates, then, in the sort of plot twist that would…
A Tornado Warning in a World Already Spinning By the time the sirens began their unmusical wail across central Oklahoma last Tuesday, half the planet was already watching via a Brazilian storm-chaser’s TikTok live stream. Somewhere in Lagos, an Uber driver glanced at the same purple hook echo on his weather app, muttered “not my…
