What Do You Most Despise?
Today we need rear-guard actions and bravery, not vacillating invertebrates.
World Politics
Every Story Needs a Villain
Turns out you can farm your opposition and call it a win.
The Power Play
How Trump is running the most aggressive geopolitical play in a generation – and why it has to be this way.
Pope Nowhere to Be Seen for Nigeria’s Christians
This is what ‘coexistence with Islam’ really looks like.
New Yorker Story on Maduro Comes off as Comedy
Does Maduro think that no one in Venezuela has noticed that he he gone? Yes, they have noticed, but the funny thing is they don’t even much care, including his vice-president who hasn’t really bothered much to bring about his return other than a few initial words of protest.
Is There Hope for Democracy?
A culture that has progressively replaced shared obligation with individual entitlement has eroded the sense of collective responsibility, without which self-governance is merely a slogan.
The Civil War in Sudan
Lost amid a crush of global geopolitical disasters, the African country is embroiled in a tragedy of enormous proportions.
A Stocktake of the Iran War to Now
Blowing things up is the easy part. Turning force into a political outcome is harder.
The Price of Silence
How money, mimicry, and rear are eroding free inquiry worldwide.