Why the New President Will Need to Strengthen the State Over the past two decades, Nigeria’s democracy has grown much more competitive. Elections have become more transparent and less susceptible to elite manipulation. The...
What the Disaster in Ukraine Has Done to the Kremlin—and to Russia – By Michael Kimmage and Maria Lipman | January 13, 2023 Winning a long war requires a mobilization of troops and supplies that can...
How Mercenary Spyware Threatens Democracy – By Ronald J. Deibert In the summer of 2020, a Rwandan plot to capture exiled opposition leader Paul Rusesabagina drew international headlines. Rusesabagina is best known as the...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu’s recent gaffe ‘Balablu’ was used as an examination question for students at the Nasarawa State University. Naija News recalls that Tinubu, during a political engagement in...
Coming on the heels of the pandemic-induced economic slowdown, the inflation crisis of the past two years seemed to catch much of the world by surprise. After three decades in which prices grew slowly...
Twitter founder and former CEO, Jack Dorsey has launched a new social media platform, ‘Bluesky’. This is coming barely a week after a business magnate and investor, Elon Musk, acquired Twitter. The new app,...
Why Mobilization Can’t Save Putin’s War In his September 21 speech about the steps he was taking to win his war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin had to explain why he had not...
How Putin Has Used Fear and Disinformation to Neutralize the Russian Public – By Andrei Kolesnikov Situated on the Baltic Coast, the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad is closer to Europe than any other part...
Latin America Points to an Explanation—and a Remedy By Paul Hirschfield ————————————————————————————————— Latin America suffers more lethal violence than any other region on earth. As of 2018, 43 of the 50 cities with the...
The End of the Deal Would Leave Only Bad Options to Thwart a Dash for the Bomb Last month, Iran’s nuclear program entered dangerous new territory: Tehran now possesses enough highly enriched uranium for...
