**When Elephants Clash Over Crumbs: Sri Lanka vs Pakistan and the Theater of Global Indifference** The Indian Ocean has seen better days. While the rest of the world obsesses over whether billionaires should pay taxes or if AI will steal our jobs, two nations are locked in a geopolitical tango that would be almost endearing…
A Ticket to the Old Firm: How a Sliver of Green-and-White Cardstock Became the Hottest Geopolitical Currency You’ve Never Heard Of By the time the WhatsApp pings land in Jakarta, Bogotá, and a particularly disgruntled Toronto pub owner’s group chat, the digital queue for Celtic tickets has already been bleeding servers for six hours. Somewhere…
Cairo’s Friday-night fixture between Haras El Hodoud and Al Ahly is, on paper, a modest Egyptian Premier League tilt. In practice, it is the geopolitical equivalent of a bar fight between a lighthouse keeper and a multinational shipping conglomerate. One side guards the harbor; the other owns the sea lanes, the docks, and—while we’re at…
TSMC: The Tiny Island That Holds the World Hostage By the time you finish reading this sentence, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM) will have printed another 300 smartphone processors—each one capable of running TikTok, Instagram, or the nuclear launch codes of any moderately funded superpower. Investors politely call TSM a “bellwether”; the rest of us…
Rudi Johnson and the Quiet Collapse of the American Dream, as Observed from a Safe Distance ZURICH—Somewhere between the Alps and the next overpriced fondue, it’s easy to forget that in Cincinnati there is a man named Rudi Johnson who once carried a football 1,300 times in a single NFL season, then vanished into the…
A Global Parade of Regret: How the World’s Products Are Sneaking Back Home By the Dave’s Locker Foreign Desk, still wondering who keeps the receipt for planet Earth. RECALLS – the polite euphemism for “we shipped you a liability, please pretend you never opened it.” From Brussels to Bogotá, recalls are the 21st-century apology note…
Rudi Johnson and the Curious Case of the Universal Backup Plan By Our Man in Transit Lounges Everywhere PARIS—Somewhere between the croissant crumbs at CDG and the lukewarm espresso in Istanbul, I found myself staring at a headline that could only belong to our magnificently deranged century: “Rudi Johnson signs with the Montreal Alouettes.” It…
Dateline: Somewhere between the 24-hour news cycle and the twilight of broadcast relevance— It’s tempting to think of NBC’s Morgan Radford as an American curiosity, a polished polyglot who pops up on your screen between ads for cholesterol medication and luxury watches. But step back—say, to a smoky café in Beirut or a Seoul subway…
BETR Stock: Because Nothing Says Global Recovery Like Betting on Americans Eating More Cheeseburgers in the Drive-Thru By the time the opening bell rang in New York, traders in Singapore were already on their second kaya toast and third espresso, eyes flicking between the Nikkei futures and a tiny, newly-listed ticker: BETR. The company, Better…
Pakistan vs Sri Lanka: A Subcontinental Derby That Might Decide Nothing and Still Break Everything by Our Correspondent, filing from somewhere between airports and existential dread The cricket fixture formerly known as “a bilateral series” has, in its latest avatar, become a geopolitical Rorschach test with a DRS review system. When Pakistan and Sri Lanka…
SOUN Stock: The Global Spectacle of Betting on a Sound Idea (Literally) By the time the first trading bell rang in New York, Seoul had already gone hoarse. From Lagos to Lausanne, investors were piling into shares of SOUN—SoundHound AI—like teenagers stuffing their pockets with free samples at a perfume counter. The reason? A press…
Pakistan vs Sri Lanka: A Subcontinental Bout Where Everyone Loses, but the World Still Scores a Ticket By the time the floodlights at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium flickered on, the only thing brighter than the wattage was the collective global anxiety about what, exactly, we were watching. A cricket match? A geopolitical morality play? Or merely…
