The Democrats Won’t Name the Villain — and Silence Is Its Own Kind of Complicity
America names its foreign villains easily — it’s the ones at home it forgives, from the pardoned Confederacy to the January 6 mob wiped clean in an afternoon. On why Democratic decorum, in a moment of open racial retribution, isn’t caution. It’s complicity.
The Democrats Didn’t Owe Lindsey Graham a Eulogy
A flood of tender Democratic tributes met Lindsey Graham’s death. Why the eulogies were unnecessary — and what the performance quietly reveals about a party more at home in the club than in the fight.
They Want the Body. They Have Never Wanted the Humanity.
A Nigerian-born American on Balogun’s red card, the raids in Minneapolis and Springfield, and the abuse in the stands — soccer wants the Black body, and it has never wanted the humanity that comes with it.
Diaspora Has a South Africa Problem — and We Should Know Better
A Nigerian-born American on South Africa’s 2026 purge of fellow Africans — and why, on a continent shaped by colonialism and apartheid, we should know better.
