Arsenal News: A Global Arms Bazaar Where Everyone Wins (Except the Targets) By the time you finish this sentence, at least three governments, two private security firms, and one very enthusiastic TikTok influencer will have refreshed their feeds for the latest “Arsenal News.” The phrase used to summon images of North London footballers fumbling away…
From the Beltway to the Beijing Belt-and-Road—Trent Williams as Global Rorschach Test —————————————————————– PARIS — Somewhere between the 50-yard line and the International Date Line, Trent Williams ceased being merely the NFL’s most overqualified bodyguard and became a geopolitical inkblot: what you see in the San Francisco left tackle says more about your hemisphere than…
Paramount Is the New Oxygen—We Just Haven’t Noticed the Price Hike Yet By L. Marchetti, roving correspondent, currently hiding from four different tax authorities PARIS—Over croissants that cost more per gram than enriched uranium, the French foreign minister declared climate change “paramount.” Twenty-four hours earlier, the CEO of a South Korean chip conglomerate called uninterrupted…
Lucid: The Word the World Pretends to Understand While Hitting Snooze By Our Correspondent, Somewhere Between Jet Lag and Existential Dread Lucid, adj. — clear in expression or thought; rational; easily understood. A lovely, optimistic scrap of Latin that somehow survived the fall of Rome, two world wars, and an internet full of conspiracy theories…
Power, like cheap tequila, is most potent just before it makes you sick. From the marble corridors of Brussels to the fluorescent-lit war rooms of Beijing, the world’s sharpest minds are busy proving that axiom daily, usually while someone else foots the bar tab. Consider the United Nations Security Council on any given Tuesday: five…
Malcolm Gladwell, the Canadian-born pop-intellectual with the hair of a startled alpaca and the delivery of a bedtime-storyteller who moonlights as a management consultant, has managed to export a very particular brand of reassuring explanation to every corner of the globe. From Lagos traffic jams to Tokyo bullet-train lounges, airport bookstores still stack The Tipping…
