Denny Hamlin Is the Last American Export That Still Runs on Leaded Nostalgia By Dave’s Locker Global Affairs Desk PARIS—On any given Sunday, while half the planet doom-scrolls through tariff wars and the other half wonders whether Brussels will ration olive oil, somewhere in the Carolinas a man in a fireproof onesie mashes a throttle…
Dakota Fanning and the Quiet Apocalypse of the American Child Star By Dave’s Foreign Correspondent (currently self-exiled in a Reykjavik basement where the northern lights can’t find me) If you squint through the smog of 2024, Dakota Fanning still looks exactly like the prophesied Last Good Kid—blonde, polite, preternaturally articulate, the sort of child you…
PARIS—Somewhere between the first croissant and the third existential crisis, Andy Roddick’s name still flits across café screens like a stubborn pop-up ad from 2003. It shouldn’t make sense: here we are, two decades deep into the Federer-Nadal-Djokovic infinity loop, and yet the Nebraskan with the howitzer serve is trending again—this time because a TikTok…
Somewhere in a nameless bar in Manila, a Korean hedge-fund analyst, a Nigerian logistics broker, and a retired FARC accountant are watching the same pixelated stream of the New York Yankees’ box score. None of them have ever set foot in the Bronx—they couldn’t pick Aaron Judge out of a police lineup—but the flickering digits…
GAVIN NEWSOM: AMERICA’S PRETTIEST POLITICAL WEATHER-VANE SWINGS INTO GLOBAL CROSSWINDS By Diego Serrano, Dave’s Locker International Affairs Desk There are places—say, a Berlin traffic light, a Lagos street market, a Kyoto tea house—where the name Gavin Newsom lands with the faint pop of a distant champagne cork: pleasant, bubbly, and immediately forgotten. Yet for the…
