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A Nigerian oil sector fable

By Damilola BadruOnce upon a time in the Republic of Renewed Hope, the people awaited a miracle — not the biblical kind, but something even rarer: an increase in oil production.Every week, the palace ...
Never in my life had I read something like this on a restaurant menu: “Gilded experience — have your entree wrapped in 24-carat gold, add $45.” It was the first thing I noticed on the menu at Figs & ...
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Co-written by Tyler VanderWeele and Jennifer Wortham. Our moral understanding of right and wrong, and good and evil, is fundamental to who we are. Such understanding guides our actions and evaluations ...
There’s a delightful mystery called “The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra” by Vaseem Khan that weaves in a touch of magical realism. Magical realism refers to a story that takes place in the ...
Rome was great, and America can be greater still if it can remember both Nature and Nature’s God: In the dying words of Mercy Otis Warren’s tragic heroine in the Founding-era play The Sack of Rome, ...
Mike Mills, Peter Buck, Michael Stipe and Bill Berry of R.E.M. in Athens, Georgia, 1985. (Credit: Paul Natkin/Getty Images) The Reconstruction period immediately following the American Civil War was a ...
Talk is power in the world according to David Mamet. It always has been. Con men, salesmen, movie producers, all wielding the gift of gab as if it were a vivisection kit: These are his charming ...
Listening to the President reminds me of the old parlor game of determining which story is true and which story is false but with Trump it is which story is false and which story is half false?