Trump leads the world into a geopolitical Wild West By Ishaan Tharoor

“American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again,” President Donald Trump declared Saturday, after U.S. forces hit various Venezuelan targets and elite commandos carried out the capture and rendition of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife with an audacious raid in the dead of night. “Under the Trump administration we are reasserting American power …

How Purity Kills: The British Habit of Losing Beautifully By Lawson Akhigbe

In Britain, political parties don’t just lose elections — they lose their minds. Once the ballots are counted and the concession speeches mumbled through clenched teeth, the losing party doesn’t reflect, regroup, or rebrand. No, that would be too logical. Instead, they turn inward, declare themselves victims of treachery and moral decay, and begin the …

The Wike Conundrum: When Power Curdles Into Delusion By Kelechi DonPido @kmbiamnozie from X

Nyesom Wike There is a particular restlessness that defines the political career of Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory. It prompts a question, purely as an intellectual exercise: how does a man so perpetually in motion ever find rest? Upon examining his conduct—with the patience one reserves for studying a curious but …

The False Prophets: How Netanyahu and Trump Exploit Faith While Betraying Humanity by Lawson Akhigbe

Netanyahu and Trump In today’s turbulent political landscape, certain figures offer themselves as bulwarks, as defenders of a way of life. Among the loudest are Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, who have each, in their own contexts, cultivated a vocal base of Christian support. They posture as warriors for Christian values, as allies in a …

Trump Discovers Time Travel, Invades Venezuela by Lawson Akhigbe

Donald J. Trump has finally achieved what no Silicon Valley billionaire, CERN physicist or Marvel villain could manage: he has dragged the 18th century kicking and screaming into the 21st. In one bold, historically illiterate swoop, he has colonised Venezuela. Not with redcoats and cannons, of course—that would be gauche—but with helicopter gunships, special forces …