Opinion

COMMENT | NICHOLAS REED LANGEN | Day by day, week by week, courts are increasingly becoming the front line in the struggle to preserve democracy from populists and authoritarians. In the United States, the Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments on a decision by Colorado’s highest court that Donald Trump is …

COMMENT | IAN BURUMA | On January 17, 2021, when Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny boarded a plane to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been treated after being poisoned in Russia with the nerve agent Novichok, he said he was pleased to be going home. But he knew the risks …

COMMENT | CRISPIN KAHERU |  When you think of Ambassador Fukuzawa, it is hard not to think of a unique blend of humility and humor. He is the master of defusing tense situations with a well-timed, pokerfaced joke. If you have had the privilege of meeting out-going Japanese Ambassador to Uganda, …

    COMMENT | ROBERT SKIDELSKY |   This week, PS talks with Robert Skidelsky, a member of the British House of Lords and Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at Warwick University. Robert Skidelsky Says More… Project Syndicate: Last year, you lamented the reversion of contemporary policy discussions to “the age-old standoff …

Why the deployment of international forces without addressing internal problems will achieve nothing. THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | There is “fresh” fighting in the eastern Democratic DRC between government forces and the predominantly Tutsi rebel group, M23. I put fresh in inverted comas because DRC has been at war almost …

COMMENT | BY JAMES MUBIRU | The new year is a few months in. You’ve probably looked up and down your resolution list and aren’t happy with yourself. You feel incompetent. You feel cheated! 60 days are gone, and those abs are not here yet; and you have no contribution …

What Tel Aviv’s massive bombing of Gaza tells us about that country’s actual intentions for Palestine THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | Nothing has recently occupied my mind more than Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza: the merciless violence of it, the brutality with which it bombs that tiny space of land, …

DMYTRO KULEBA | PROJECT SYNDICATE |  February 24, 2022, when Russia marched hundreds of thousands of troops into Ukraine, marked the beginning of a major geopolitical earthquake. For two years, Europe has been living with the grim reality of the continent’s largest war of aggression since World War II, and with …

COMMENT | MICHAEL JJINGO | It is so important to take time for yourself. “Take time to love yourself. You deserve it”, says Avina Celeste. Although most leaders have a sense of the fortitude, energy, and stamina they require to be successful, few of them make investments to bolster them. We …

Why Uganda should stop deluding itself that it is in Somalia to protect the people of that country THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda |  Last week in this column, I argued that Uganda’s mission in Somalia is like America’s mission in Afghanistan. This lesson was hammered into my head reading a …