SAN MIGUELITO, Texas—Somewhere between the breakfast-taco stands and the border fence that looks like a rejected set piece from a low-budget dystopia, a modest Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility had what the official communiqués will call “an incident” and what anyone with a working smartphone will call “Tuesday.” The attack—reportedly a coordinated effort involving…
Dublin Airport Evacuated: The Emerald Isle Discovers Terror Doesn’t Take a Bank Holiday By the time Terminal 2’s automatic doors hissed shut behind the last bewildered Ryanair passenger, the news had already ping-ponged from Lagos to Los Angeles faster than the flight time of a transatlantic 777. Dublin Airport—once famous mainly for Guinness-scented carpets and…
SEPTEMBER 11TH, GLOBALIZED: How One Tuesday Morning Became the Entire Planet’s Permanent Bad Hair Day By the time the second plane hit, the world’s coffee had already gone cold. In Lagos, a stockbroker paused mid-sip, watching the tiny television bolted to the currency-exchange kiosk; in São Paulo, a late-night talk-show host shrugged offstage, instinctively switching…
