Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans, and people of the world: thank you.We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and to restore its promise for all of our people.Together, we will determine the course of America and the …
There are moments in a nation’s life when the problem is not a single policy failure or an errant leader, but a systemic lapse—a kind of institutional drowsiness where each arm of governance assumes the other will do the heavy lifting. Contemporary America, for all its procedural sophistication, increasingly looks like such a moment. At …
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Jibrin Okutepa SAN Dear Jibrin Okutepa SAN There’s a particular kind of frustration that only proximity can produce. Not the distant outrage of the observer, but the weary, intimate disillusionment of someone who has sat at the table, argued the briefs, and watched the machinery of politics grind in real time. When you have stood …
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Abubakar Atiku Nigeria is a constitutional republic. That is the theory. In practice, it is also a federation held together by a delicate, unwritten gentleman’s agreement: “you chop, I chop next.” Lawyers call the first a constitution. Politicians call the second zoning. The confusion begins when both claim authority at the same time. After eight …
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