In Nigeria, we like to pretend that nothing really changes. Same problems, new slogans. Same mess, new acronyms. But that is not entirely true. There have been moments—rare, dramatic, almost biblical—when a single decision by a sitting president or head of state permanently bent the arc of Nigerian governance. Not policy tweaks. Not reforms. Earthquakes. …
Write a letter to your 100-year-old self. Wow, y’all made it. The journey was fun and exciting. You chose well and your offsprings are a testimony to the cause of your travels. You ran because your parents walked and your children are flying now. Say hi to the big man and watch over those you …
There are moments in foreign policy when a country looks less like a sovereign actor and more like a reflex. The United Kingdom’s posture toward the war in Gaza and the widening confrontation between Israel and Iran has raised precisely that question: is this strategy, inertia, or something closer to muscle memory? The UK is …
There is negotiation as taught in law school — offer, counter-offer, consideration, good faith. And then there is negotiation as practiced by Donald Trump — open with an airstrike, tweet in all caps, and call it leverage. Welcome to 2020s diplomacy, where the pre-action protocol reads less like the Vienna Convention and more like a …
Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP During a White House meeting on Tuesday, surrounded by his Cabinet, President Donald Trump referred to Somali immigrants as “garbage” and said, “We don’t want them in our country.” No one in Trump’s Cabinet stood up to this expression of gutter racism, although Vice President J. D. Vance enthusiastically banged …
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