From Apia to Abu Dhabi: Jey Uso’s Slow-Motion Rebellion as a Global Mood Ring The first time I watched Jey Uso shoulder-check Roman Reigns on a grainy stream in Nairobi, the power flickered twice—once for the city’s aging grid, once for the narrative earthquake rippling outward from Tampa. Half the planet away, a cousin in…
Roxanne Perez and the Global Gladiator Economy by L. Marín, Senior Correspondent, Somewhere Over the Mid-Atlantic If you squint hard enough from the window of a red-eye leaving JFK, you can almost see the entire planet orbiting around a 23-year-old in neon kneepads. Roxanne Perez—born Carla Gonzalez in the Rio Grande Valley, now billed from…
The Curious Global Dominion of Becky Lynch: How a Dublin Bartender Became an International Soft-Power Asset In the grand, tragicomic opera of geopolitics—where nuclear codes are entrusted to septuagenarians who confuse TikTok with a breath mint—it turns out one of the more reliable diplomatic pressure valves is a 5-foot-6 redhead from the Liberties who used…
