Together for Palestine: A Global Chorus That Can’t Quite Hit the Same Note By Dave’s Locker International Desk The hashtag du jour, “Together for Palestine,” now pings across 195 sovereign Wi-Fi networks with the urgency of a pop-up ad for eternal salvation. It has trended in Lagos, trended in Lima, trended in Luxembourg—proof that nothing…
From the vantage point of a cramped newsroom in downtown Lagos, where the generator coughs like a chain-smoking oracle, I watched Charlie Kirk’s latest soliloquy on George Floyd ricochet across WhatsApp groups from São Paulo to Seoul. The American conservative influencer, who has perfected the art of sounding earnest while selling vitamin supplements, declared that…
Kai Who? How a 21-Year-Old from the Bronx Became the UN’s Most Effective (and Unpaid) Cultural Attaché By Our Correspondent, still recovering from the algorithmic whiplash NEW YORK—While the Security Council was busy drafting another strongly-worded sigh about Gaza, a kid who still gets ID’d at R-rated movies managed to unite India, Brazil, and South…
Jasmine Crockett and the Curious Art of Making America Watch Congress Again By “Marcello Sang-froid,” Senior Correspondent, Dave’s Locker Global Desk DALLAS—Somewhere between the first NATO summit that ran out of coffee and the last G-7 dinner where everyone pretended to like the host’s risotto, a freshman Democrat from Texas has figured out how to…
Anna Paulina Luna and the Global Ripple Effect of Florida’s Favorite Firebrand By our man in the cheap seats, somewhere over the Atlantic When Anna Paulina Luna strode onto the floor of the U.S. House last January sporting aviators, a scowl, and the sort of confidence that only comes from having already survived Twitter, TikTok,…
The Curious Case of Donald Trump X: An International Postcard from the Edge of Reason By “Grim” Giovanni Rossi, Foreign Correspondent-at-Large, Dave’s Locker PARIS, FRANCE — Somewhere between the croissants and the existential dread, the world woke up to discover that “Donald Trump X” is no longer a typo made by sleepy copy editors but…
