Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, is CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and host of the weekly podcast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.” He writes POLITICO’s Across the Pond column. Dina Smeltz is vice president for Public Opinion and Foreign Policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. For the past…
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https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/07/03/multimedia/03sierraleone-1-lfth/03sierraleone-1-lfth-mediumSquareAt3X.jpgA new law in the West African country of Sierra Leone allows child brides to annul their marriages and be financially compensated.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/07/02/multimedia/02nigeria-kingdom-1-jgtw/02nigeria-kingdom-1-jgtw-mediumSquareAt3X.jpgTwo men claim to be the emir of Kano, an ancient kingdom in northern Nigeria. Their struggle for power and influence is feeding into a wider competition ahead of the country’s next election.
One of the enduring themes of President Joseph Biden’s public life has been intense ambivalence about the elite institutions of American life and the well-credentialed, well-spoken, well-paid careerists who occupy them. There is resentment, from the so-so student with a stutter who grew up in Scranton and small-town Delaware and didn’t have the economic and educational…
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The first 400 Kenyan police arrived in Haiti this week, part of a multinational force that will attempt to bring stability back the country. Gangs control most of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. But the Kenyan police arrived in Haiti as the same police force was firing on protesters in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. We hear about what…
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Doomism robs people of the agency and incentive to participate in a solution to the climate crisis.
How Albert Einstein, a Brooklyn dentist, and pre-World War II Chinese leaders tried to create a Jewish homeland in Yunnan.
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