Ehtiopia’s nationalist journey
Ethiopia’s liberal Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been assured a second term in office as his ruling Prosperity Party has won the federal parliamentary election by a landslide, capturing 410 of 436 seats. Elections to about a fifth of the seats have been delayed because of Covid-19, logistical problems and, in the case of Tigray […]
Liberal democracy derails
LIBERAL DEMOCRACY ISN’T serving Americans very well, not, at any rate, in their well-being. Nicholas Kristoff is making the point poignantly. America’s “greatest threat,” writes the Pulitzer-winning New York Times columnist, isn’t Communist China or authoritarian Russia “but our underperformance at home.” Kristoff cites data from several surveys to support his argument. Fifteen-year-old American kids […]