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Let’s be unequivocal for a moment. In the chaotic, often disorienting landscape of American politics, a clear and consistent truth has emerged: There is no pressing challenge facing the United States, or the world, for which the politics of Donald Trump and the modern Republican Party offer a legitimate, moral, or effective solution. This isn’t …
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Yusuf Buhari There are economic textbooks, there are IMF reports, and then there is the most accurate indicator of Nigeria’s political economy: the call log on the phone of a man close to power. Yusuf Buhari, son of Nigeria’s late president, has accidentally written the clearest thesis on Nigeria’s rent economy without citing Adam Smith, …
Donald Trump did not invent American racism. That would be giving him far too much credit, and he would immediately trademark it, slap gold letters on it, and announce a licensing deal with Fox News. Trump is not the source. He is the fish. The GOP is the pool. And what a pool it is. …
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You get some great, amazingly fantastic news. What’s the first thing you do? Knee down, clap hands and thank him for making it possible and say Amen.
The Nigerian Senate has many powers. It can debate. It can grandstand. It can investigate. It can even, on occasion, legislate. What it cannot do—at least not without running into the Constitution at full speed—is suspend an entire constituency for six months and call it “discipline”. Yet that is precisely the controversy thrown back into …
Centre for Nigeria Progress 