Preface: A Provocation on X On Saturday, June 13, 2026, billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban — co-founder of broadcast.com, longtime owner of the Dallas Mavericks, fixture of “Shark Tank,” and one of America’s most relentlessly online business figures — posted a…
I. PRELUDE TO HISTORY: THE MAKING OF THE MOST AMBITIOUS WORLD CUP There are moments in the history of sport when an event transcends its own competition and becomes something far larger — a mirror held up to the human…
There is a peculiar geography of power at the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, a small and impossibly elegant resort town perched on the southern shore of Lake Geneva in the French Alps. The mountains rise steeply behind it. The Swiss…
There is a particular kind of Washington fury that does not announce itself with a podium and a press release. It builds quietly, in the corner offices of Senate committee chairmen, in the terse one-liners of men who are ordinarily…
