Laura Loomer and the Global Export of American Outrage By the time Laura Loomer’s latest stunt ricochets across the planet—whether she’s handcuffing herself to a social-media HQ or live-streaming a deportation fantasy from a private jet—it has already been digested, memed, and monetized from São Paulo to Singapore. What began as a distinctly Floridian form…
**The Global Echo Chamber: How “The Rumour Channel 5” Became Everyone’s Problem** While the good citizens of [insert your nation here] were busy doom-scrolling through their own local catastrophes last week, a charming little digital wildfire was spreading across borders faster than a billionaire’s tax evasion scheme. “The Rumour Channel 5″—which sounds like a rejected…
**The Curious Case of Katie Abraham: How One Woman’s Digital Footprint Became a Global Mirror** In the grand theater of international affairs—where nuclear powers play chicken over shipping lanes and central banks perform interpretive dance with interest rates—the saga of Katie Abraham might seem like small potatoes. But then again, history teaches us that revolutions…
Knives Out: A Global Affair in Which Everyone Is Guilty By Our Correspondent Who Has Already Checked the Silverware Drawer GENEVA—The phrase “knives out” once conjured up quaint English country houses, thunderclaps, and a Belgian sleuth fussing over egg-temperature. Today it is less parlour game and more planetary blood sport. From the South China Sea…
**When Beauty Meets Bluetooth: The Brooks Nader Incident and Our Global Panic Room** In a world where nuclear powers play chicken in the Taiwan Strait and glaciers perform disappearing acts faster than a magician’s assistant, humanity has collectively decided that the real international crisis worth our breathless attention is… a Sports Illustrated model’s misadventure with…
Twins vs Royals: The Eternal Cage Match Between Genetics and Genealogy By Our Correspondent in the Republic of Slightly Unhinged Democracies If you’ve spent any time on social media this week, you’ve seen the memes: a pair of identical toddlers in matching rompers squaring off against a pair of middle-aged heirs in identical navy suits,…
The planet is on fire, inflation is staging a renaissance, and yet a non-trivial slice of humanity spent last night refreshing a subreddit in Manila to find out whether a Brazilian yoga instructor betrayed a Scottish hairdresser inside a Bulgarian-set house they will never actually leave. Welcome, dear reader, to the global cottage industry of…
