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Today on the right, there are plenty of folks who call themselves conservatives but are far from the historical definition.

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His campaign for the office revealed a different facet of Ahmad Lawan: the relentless political operator, a consensus-builder ...

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Here's what you should know about 'Common Sense' on the 250th anniversary of the groundbreaking work's publication.

African political elites have shown that they lack the mental magnitude, the steely discipline and the nationalistic self-sacrifice to produce the institutional framework for the postcolonial order in ...