Trump Opens World’s First “Peace Club,” Everyone Shows Up Except People Who Like Complaining WASHINGTON, D.C. — Washington woke up this week to the unfamiliar sound of diplomats looking confused. The confusion came from a brand-new international body called the Board of…
Current Affairs in Lithuania and the World: A Serious Guide for People Who Prefer Not to Be Serious Lithuania is the only country where a man can discuss geopolitics, basketball, and potato prices in the same breath and somehow make…
The British Inquiry Into Why Men Can Track Foreign Brides But Somehow Lose A Parcel From Slough A Cross-Party Investigation Into Emotional Logistics, Romantic Software Updates, And The Tragic Misallocation Of Male Competence By General B.S. Slinger — Prat.UK 🇬🇧 Five…
Western Alliance Announces Exciting New Era Of Cooperation, Immediately Schedules 47 Meetings About It Leaders promise decisive action just as soon as the pastries arrive BRUSSELS, BELGIUM — The Western alliance gathered this week to boldly remake itself for the modern age, a…
스포츠중계: North Korea’s State TV Airs Premier League — Five Months Late, Son Heung-min Completely Erased “I don’t need your stinking sports broadcasting rules!” PYONGYANG / MANCHESTER — In a development that football broadcasters, copyright lawyers, and the entire nation of…
Robots Enter “Cut-Throat Kung Fu Panda Capitalism,” Immediately Begin Undercutting Each Other For 3 Cents BEIJING — China’s newest humanoid robots were unveiled this week to applause, national pride, and a brutal clearance sale that began before the applause finished echoing. Within minutes,…
Lunar New Year Family Dinner Declared Extreme Sport After 800 Million Parents Ask “So… Grandchild When?” BEIJING — The annual Spring Festival migration has once again produced the world’s largest human movement, narrowly beating salmon swimming upstream and LinkedIn users updating job titles…
The Man Who Could Invoice a Corporation Using Only a Microphone A Respectful, Completely Calm, Totally Not Nervous Obituary America lost one of its most recognisable negotiators this week: Reverend Jesse Jackson, age 84, civil-rights leader, presidential candidate, public moral conscience,…
Five Quick Observations From the Scene The most exclusive club in Paris turned out to be a laminated rectangle. One ticket met more tourists than the Eiffel Tower elevator. The Mona Lisa has now been viewed mostly by accountants. The audio guide said “You…
Pyongyang Announces “Bring Your Daughter to Work Day” Will Now Last 70 Years State television in North Korea this week showed the nation what analysts described as a historic political development and what middle-school careers advisers described as “aggressive career…
Five Things We Noticed Immediately The U.S. sending a second aircraft carrier is diplomacy’s version of typing in all caps and then adding a smiley face. Every time negotiations “continue,” the Navy updates Google Maps with a new parking space near Iran.…
Markets, Missiles, and Margin Calls: The British Edition A dispatch from the brand-new financial sector: “defence derivatives.” Somewhere in a Whitehall office, a bloke looked at a troop deployment map and didn’t think “geopolitics.” He thought, “that’s a bullish indicator.”…
Observations Before the Contest Even Started The newspaper in The Gambia announced a serious intellectual contest about Life in Gambia versus Life in the UK and immediately half the judges were cousins. The UK sent data spreadsheets. The Gambia sent…
Manchester United co-owner says UK has been ‘colonized by immigrants’ Five Quick Observations Before Kickoff ⚽ Manchester United’s bench has so many passports it needs its own customs queue at Old Trafford. If 69.5 million becomes 70 million after rounding,…
Hong Kong Court Announces “Best in Show” Award for Silencing Critics; Gold Medal Goes to Jimmy Lai’s 20-Year Sentence Beijing Bureau of the International League of Authoritarian Achievements In what officials are calling a landmark milestone in the championship of…
Holland-Andalucía Trade Relations: When Tulips Met Tapas and Everyone Got Rich (Then Embargoed) The Original Netflix Series Nobody Asked For: Dutch Merchants Take Seville In what historians are calling “the most profitable meet-cute in European history,” Dutch merchants and Andalusian port cities began a…
Prince Harry’s Charity Turns Into Game of Thrones Season Finale: Staff Exits, Betrayals, Zero Dragons 🐉 Observers say the working atmosphere at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Archewell Foundation now resembles the final season of Game of Thrones. Big expectations. Expensive lighting.…
India Throws Open the Windows and Accidentally Creates an Economic Breeze 🌬️🇮🇳 There was a time when India’s economy felt like that one relative who kept the good sofa wrapped in plastic. Visitors were welcome, but nobody was allowed to…
UK Plans in Shambles After Prince Harry Suggests Budgeting, Meghan Markle Suggests Champagne There are moments in history when great nations pivot on a single decision. The moon landing. The invention of tea breaks. And now, reportedly, a domestic disagreement…
Here’s a playful take on Should Globalists Give Up?, riffing on the spirit and the controversy around globalism that’s swirling through the culture pages of The Economist and world commentary this week 🌍🎭. (This story is entirely a human collaboration…
