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President Muhammudu Buhari, (left) 71 will face his strongest challenge from Atiku Abubakar, 75 Editor-in-chief of Nigeria's Daily Trust newspaper Mannir Dan Ali looks at why a country where more than half the population is under 35 looks set to get another septuagenarian president after next year's election. On polling day, the two leading candidates …
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The president continues to embrace white nationalism as Republican candidates struggle in the polls President Trump has provided America with yet another reminder to never underestimate how deep into the gutter he will crawl to win an election. On Wednesday afternoon, the president tweeted a new, deeply racist campaign ad in which he continued to …
A black high schooler was sentenced to 10 years in prison over the incident that has recirculated after the president's death. The late President George H.W. Bush launched an anti-drug initiative from the Oval Office in 1989. The Friday night death of former President George H.W. Bush has opened a wellspring of tributes from famous …
How “Willie Horton” went from shorthand for black depravity to shorthand for political racism. George H.W. Bush, the one-term president who died on Friday at age 94, is often overlooked by history, despite having presided over the last truly bipartisan “grand bargain” and the end of the Cold War. But if there’s one context in …
