Write about a time when you didn't take action but wish you had. What would you do differently? I have never not made a decision and if incorrect I live with the consequences but a decision is always made. No paralysis of decision making.
The government spokesman’s essay reads like a victory lap taken halfway through a marathon. Yes, the sentence delivered by Bola Ahmed Tinubu on inauguration day—“the fuel subsidy is gone”—was dramatic. But drama is not the same as delivery, and arithmetic is not the same as economics lived by citizens. Let’s separate three things the spokesman …
The concept of “erasure” in the context of Black populations in the Americas refers to processes—demographic, cultural, narrative, and institutional—that diminish the visible presence, historical contributions, genetic legacy, or contemporary recognition of people of African descent. In South America, as detailed in Lawson Akhigbe’s article “The Erased Majority,” erasure often manifests through deliberate demographic engineering …
Family separation here refers primarily to the forcible or policy-driven splitting of parents/guardians from minor children during border processing, detention, or deportation proceedings. It does not include natural separations from conflict, voluntary migration, or standard child welfare removals (though overlaps exist). Globally, no major democracy has replicated the U.S. scale of systematic, deterrent-driven separations of …
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🌍 Geopolitics & Grand Delusions How to simultaneously declare total victory, admit partial defeat, threaten a country into talks, threaten it out of talks, and still somehow call it a strategy — all before lunch. There is an old Persian proverb — and given that this article is about Iran, it seems appropriate to start …
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