When Flags Half-Mast Around the World: Global Grief as a Bureaucratic Routine
When the Flag Drops to Half-Mast, the Dow Doesn’t Blink By the time the newsroom clock hit 11:00 a.m. in Brussels, the European Commission had already lowered its twelve-starred banner to half-mast for the latest school shooting in a country that still prints “In God We Trust” on its currency. By noon, the gesture had…