Blame the Sun: Nigeria’s Hottest Political Alibi

At this point, Nigeria might as well appoint the Minister of Climate Change as National Security Adviser. It would save time. Because if the current argument is to be believed, terrorism in Nigeria is no longer the offspring of failed governance, compromised security systems, and political indifference. No—it is the direct handiwork of sunshine, heatwaves, …

The Man Who Spiked the Truth: How William Barr Distorted the Mueller Report and Broke America’s Relationship with Facts

On March 24, 2019, Attorney General William Barr released a four-page letter summarizing Special Counsel Robert Mueller's nearly two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. That letter would become one of the most consequential pieces of misinformation in modern American history—not because it contained outright falsehoods, but because of what it chose to …

Boys to Men

Describe something you learned in high school. One entered a boy and left a man. One became self aware, knew how to control one’s immediate surroundings, cleaning, making beds away from home. The umbilical cord emotionally and physically cut.