**The M23 Meltdown: How a British Motorway Became a Global Metaphor for Everything Wrong with 2024** While the world watched Gaza burn, Ukraine bleed, and global democracy perform its best impression of a drunken tightrope walker, the United Kingdom—ever the master of prioritization—found itself convulsing over the closure of a 27-mile stretch of asphalt in…
**The Eternal Return of ‘Reform’: A Global Ritual of Hope and Disappointment** GENEVA—Here we go again. From the marble halls of Brussels to the smoke-filled backrooms of Beijing, humanity’s favorite political pastime has returned like a seasonal affliction: reform season. That magical time when politicians discover—shockingly—that their systems need fixing, just in time for the…
Rome, Eternal City—where the Wi-Fi is patchy but the frescoes have held up for five centuries. From the Colosseum’s selfie-stick perimeter to the Senate’s revolving-door premiership, Italy keeps demonstrating that collapsing empires are a renewable resource. The rest of the world watches with the same expression tourists wear when their €18 gelato melts onto €250…
