Time can be cruel. Infatuations and honeymoons must reach their end. Emotions subside, our better selves fall, exhausted, by the wayside, and deeper character traits will out. A truly democratic South Africa, a ‘rainbow nation’, …
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Planet A Climate change is likely to worsen armed conflict in fragile and war-torn states, warns a new report from the International Monetary Fund. While climate shocks don’t cause conflict directly, the report found that …
Not so long ago, the consensus around defending democracy on the internet was nearly a settled matter. A sort of de facto understanding held that to fight disinformation and defend democracy, we should resist the …
After years of anxiety about democratic backsliding, the next few months will tell us a lot about the state of popular government around the world. In October, Argentina will elect a new president to succeed …
In recent years, domestic developments in Niger—indeed, across North Africa’s Sahel region—scarcely attracted attention from the wider world, except in Paris, where French policymakers still took an interest in Francophone Africa. But the military coup …