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There is an old English saying that “sometimes there is a method to madness.” It is usually deployed to rescue chaos from meaning, to suggest that beneath the noise there is a plan. With Donald Trump, the phrase deserves to be examined carefully—because while the madness is obvious, the method is thinner than advertised. Trump …
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U.S. President Donald Trump recently threatened to take military action against Nigeria to save Christians from a “genocide.” Trump has three possible motives for making such a threat: his mercantilist quest for rare-earth minerals, his pandering to evangelical Christians, and his racist grievances.On the eve of America’s imperial invasion of the Philippines in 1899, the …
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On Trump, his Twitter lies, and why it’s getting worse. On Sunday, on Tuesday, and again on Wednesday, President Donald Trump accused the TV talk-show host Joe Scarborough of murder. On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, he attacked the integrity of America’s forthcoming “RIGGED” election. When he woke up on Wednesday, he alleged that the Obama …
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Stella Oduah Nigeria is not governed; it is managed, and even that word may be too generous. What passes for governance in Nigeria is an elaborate system of informality—an ecosystem where rules exist mainly to be circumvented, and procedures are treated as suggestions rather than obligations.In theory, the Nigerian constitution is clear. The executive arm …
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