**Balkans Roulette: Why the World Still Keeps One Nervous Eye on Serbia** BELGRADE—Walk the length of Knez Mihailova on any given afternoon and you’ll witness the full, glorious contradiction that is modern Serbia: teenagers in Supreme hoodies filming TikToks against 19th-century facades, pensioners feeding pigeons next to a Nike store, and—if you linger long enough—some…
Novak Djokovic: The Last Sovereign of a Crumbling Empire By Dave’s Locker Foreign Desk There’s a small, rectangular kingdom that exists wherever a tennis court has white lines and a net. It has no parliament, no currency, and no immigration queue—only a scoreboard and the faint smell of overpriced sunscreen. For the better part of…
Turkey vs Serbia: When Two Middle Powers Decide to Throw Elbows in the Balkan Playground By the time you read this, the latest diplomatic “flare-up” between Ankara and Belgrade may have already been memory-holed by the next algorithmic outrage. Still, for those keeping score on how small, proud nations weaponize history, the Turkey–Serbia spat is…
