President Bola Tinubu’s decision to end the roughly forty (40) years of subsidizing petrol pump prices on the very day of his inauguration— May 29, 2023—is a prime example of the use of executive ...

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The Nigerian National Assembly on Monday joined other member states in commemorating Commonwealth Day 2025, reaffirming its commitment to democracy, human rights, global peace, inclusiveness, and ...

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Elon Musk is erratic and self-interested, enables hate speech on X and is aligned with a government that wants to annex Canada. Photo by Gage Skidmore, Creative Commons licensed. Last year, as the ...

An illustration of what a protest in ancient Athens would look like, where citizens actively participated in political discourse. Ancient Greece often conjures up images of grand religious temples and ...

Ryan D. Enos is a professor of Government. Steven Levitsky is the David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and a professor of Government. Democracy is in greater peril today than at ...

Illustration by Jonelle Afurong / The Atlantic. Sources: Bloomberg / Getty ; Andrew Harnik / Staff / Getty; Tasos Katopodis / Stringer / Getty; Joe Raedle / Staff / Getty. But the ambiguities that ...