Ferguson Goes Global: How a Missouri Suburb Became the World’s Favorite Metaphor
Ferguson, Missouri, population 20,000 and shrinking, has become a global Rorschach test: what you see in its charred convenience-store parking lot says more about your hemisphere than about the suburb itself. From Berlin to Bangkok, the nightly footage of armored police and tear-gas canisters ricocheting off American asphalt has been clipped into TikTok loops, subtitled…