Brie Larson and the Peculiar Global Sport of Watching Actors Become Ideological Footballs By Our Correspondent in the Cheap Seats, Somewhere over the Pacific It began, as most twenty-first-century international incidents do, with a tweet. Brie Larson—Oscar-winner, Marvel franchise linchpin, part-time YouTube vlogger—once suggested that film criticism could stand a wider range of voices. Within…
Charley Hull’s cigarette break at the Women’s U.S. Open wasn’t merely a nicotine lapse—it was a geopolitical Rorschach test. One minute the English golfer was puffing away beside the clubhouse, the next she was trending in seventeen languages, from Korean doom-scrolling to Brazilian barstool philosophy. In a planet increasingly divided by trade wars, proxy wars,…
RUMBLE: THE WORLD’S NEWEST GLADIATOR RING, SPONSORED BY YOUR AUNT’S FACEBOOK FEED Dave’s Locker – International Desk PARIS—If you squint at the Place de la République on a Friday night, you can watch two realities collide with the grace of a shopping cart down a flight of stairs. On one side, a gilet jaune live-streams…
From Manila to Montevideo, the name “Angel Reese” now pings across group chats like a late-night World Cup goal. The LSU forward—equal parts rebounding savant and master provocateur—has become the latest American export that the rest of the planet never asked for but can’t stop doom-scrolling. We used to ship McDonald’s and drone strikes; now…
The Gospel According to Meagan Good, or How a California Church Dress Scandal Became the Planet’s Latest Morality Play In the 48 hours after Meagan Good stepped onto an Atlanta red carpet wearing a cut-out, silver lamé gown that appeared held together by hope and two strategically-placed rhinestones, the incident followed the classic arc of…
