Julia Fox: The Accidental Geopolitical Barometer No One Asked For By Our Correspondent in the Department of Late-Stage Everything PARIS—If you had told any foreign-policy analyst in 2019 that the woman best known for peeling off a cling-film dress in Uncut Gems would one day be interpreted as a planetary mood ring, they would have…
Troy Aikman: How a Helmeted Cowboy Became the World’s Most Unlikely Soft-Power Export By the time Troy Aikman finished carving up NFL secondaries in the mid-90s, the Berlin Wall had already been rubble for half a decade and CNN was beaming grainy footage of American excess into living rooms from Lagos to Novosibirsk. What those…
A Name That Travels: How “Laken Snelling” Became the World’s Favorite Meme-Cum-MacGuffin By Dave’s Foreign Desk, still jet-lagged in three time zones PARIS—Somewhere between the espresso fumes at Café de Flore and the perpetual drizzle of a British B-road, the words “Laken Snelling” started showing up on every smartphone screen like an unsolicited life-coaching text….
