Left Turns, Global Burns: Why the Whole World Is Quietly Watching NASCAR’s Playoff Standings
**The Great American Oval: How NASCAR’s Playoff Standings Became a Global Morality Play** In a week when the UN Security Council couldn’t agree on the definition of “cease-fire” and the Arctic registered its first 30 °C day, the planet nevertheless paused—if only for the length of a fuel run—to ask: who the hell is leading…