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Time for Donors to Drop President Museveni
- Analysis
- January 26, 2021
As the results from the Ugandan elections were announced, there was an overwhelming sense of dejà-vu. President Yoweri Museveni, in power for nearly 35 years, won with 58.6 percent of the vote. His main rival, the musician and Member of Parliament Bobi Wine, received 34.8 percent. In a familiar pattern, the opposition contests the results, while the President
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The Last Boomer President? Three Game-Changers for #46
- Analysis
- January 20, 2021
The incoming Biden-Harris administration is positioned to serve as a no-nonsense clean-up crew and a bridge to the demographic future of the U.S., their most significant impact on the future course of the country, will be in the area of electoral reform. Their greatest challenge lies in restoring trust on multiple levels. Their legacy will be in how
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Memorandum for the Minister for Foreign Affairs: Welcome to GAC! (Structural Challenges Ahead)
- Analysis
- January 17, 2021
This memorandum addresses key structural challenges within Global Affairs Canada (GAC). You will have spoken to some of your predecessors about these issues. None of them in the past five years tackled GAC’s problems seriously. All of them, as a result, found their work hobbled by GAC’s inability to perform to higher expectations. In a phrase, Global Affairs
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Don’t Kid Yourself, America. What Happened at the Capitol was an Attempted Coup
In the face of threats to the nation, clear-eyed recognition of the facts is imperative. Indeed, if there is one big lesson from the last four years, surely it must be that truth matters. And the truth is that what happened before, at, and in the Capitol Building on Jan. 6 was most certainly an
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