Andy Beshear: The Mild-Mannered Governor Who Accidentally Became a Global Barometer for Sanity By the time the rest of the planet noticed, Andy Beshear had already spent three calm years governing Kentucky—a state internationally famous for bourbon, horse racing, and a stubborn refusal to pronounce its own name correctly. In most countries, a second-term governor…
**The Socialist from Queens Nobody Ordered: Zohran Mamdani’s Global Roadshow of Democratic Discontent** By the time Zohran Mamdani finished quoting Thomas Sankara to a roomful of Berlin tech-workers, the German capital’s usual drizzle had turned into a full-blown November tantrum. Puddles pooled around the audience’s ethically-sourced sneakers, yet no one budged. After all, it’s not…
The United States, that vast laboratory of late-stage capitalism and earnest flag-waving, has always insisted on packaging itself in neat little bundles. Fifty of them, to be precise—states, commonwealths, and one District that pays taxes without representation, a civic arrangement that would make any European monarch blush. To the rest of the planet, this tidy…
Moscow, Washington, and the Art of the Sanctioned Deal —————————————- On Monday, while the rest of the planet was doom-scrolling about the price of eggs, the U.S. Treasury Department quietly unfurled a fresh bouquet of sanctions aimed at the Russian financial nervous system. The timing was delicious: just as Donald Trump’s legal calendar began to…
PARIS—On the red-clay courts of Roland-Garros this week, a curious sideshow has been unfolding next to the strawberries-and-cream set: Donald Trump Tennis, an unofficial, unsanctioned, yet oddly magnetic phenomenon that began when the former U.S. president’s name was spotted on the reservation sheet of an indoor court in Palm Beach and then ricocheted across continents…
