To better understand the global context of Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl I sat down with a bao vendor in Kaohsiung

From Bari Weiss to biryani rice: the world explained

To better understand the implications of many MAGA influencers on X being foreign bots, I sat down with a cab driver in Dhaka who is paid to pretend to be a farmer from Wisconsin on X.

I have not seen a Sears perform this badly without having Eddie Lampert as CEO

To better understand the Sudanese Civil War I sat down with a waffle vendor in Bruges

To better understand the geopolitical implications of a trade war I sat down with a poutine vendor in downtown Montreal

Sandwich hurling is no means of political discourse, speaking with cab drivers in far off locales is

From Grok to Plymouth Rock: a history of iconoclastic speech

We need big, beautiful centrism

New York City’s results show the demand for radical centrism needs even more centrist firepower to be met

Is Iran the new Iraq? Too soon to tell

This Musk-Trump breakup has me thinking about the national divorce of Czechoslovakia

From Marcos to Franz: the troubling history of Ferdinands by Thomas Friedman

The Fall of the House of Usha Vance

From Maureen to Ann: the impact Dowds have had on our culture

Eric Adams is the secret weapon Democrats should use in 2028

From the provost to Prevost: an examination of the global Zeitgeist

To better understand the situation with the air traffic control at Newark I sat down with a Doordasher in Boise

How the Met Gala got me thinking about interconnecting global supply chains

From Shadeur to cheddar: a global primer on consumer choices

The NFL draft last night got me thinking about globalization

From gulags to goulash: how small authoritarian regimes explain the world

Make trade, not tariffs

Penguins as the ersatz Sons of Liberty

What watching The White Lotus taught me about global trade

Make the world flat again

To better understand the obsession Trump has with Greenland I sat down with an æbleskever vendor in Aarhus

The real madness this March is the return of isolationism and protectionist policies

The Big Mac Index and the global order

This administration is definitely not flat

To better understand the strategy of announcing then rescinding tariffs by Trump I sat down with a cashier at a Tokyo Lawson Station

Tariff is a four letter word

The state of the union is not flat

Why an Andrew Cuomo-John Fetterman ticket is the Democrats’ best hope for 2028

Is the Saudi conference on Ukraine the new “Peace in our time?”

What ordering a steamed beef bun at a 7Eleven in Kaohsiung taught me about cross-strait relations

Is incompetence having a moment?

What I learned about globalization from watching fireworks in Taipei

How globalization explains your Super Bowl party

If only the Doge had remained just a title for the leader of the Venetian Republic

The tear up over tariffs

Perhaps a cast member of Real World: Boston was not the best person to lead the nation’s transportation regulation

Trump is the father of DEI, now he wants to avoid visitations

From DEI to DEA: the vexing political issues around the civil service

The electric car industry needs less Musk and more Tesla

From Hegseth to Brexit: how poor decisions shape the Zeitgeist

Is Elon Musk the new Henry Ford? It’s complicated

The troubling history of one-armed salutes

The Detroit Lions defeat has me thinking of the overconfidence of Napoleon marching to Russia in 1812

To better understand the impact mass deportations will have on the US economy I sat down with a man wearing a wall suit yelling at his TV