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 …
David Remnick’s essay “Trump, Epstein, and the Women” is not really about sex, or even scandal. It is about power—how it is exercised, how it is protected, and how women are treated as collateral damage in a system designed to insulate powerful men from consequence. Jeffrey Epstein did not operate in a vacuum. Nor was …
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In the sober textbooks of international relations, diplomacy is presented as a rational enterprise conducted by trained professionals in pinstripes, armed with briefing notes, institutional memory, and a pathological fear of saying anything interesting. In practice, however, there are two kinds of ambassadors: career and non-career. Career ambassadors are civil servants. They rise through the …
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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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