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  • The Borders Around Our Own Empathy

    When a suicide bomber detonated at an arena concert in Manchester in May 2017, it shook America to its bones. A little more than a week later, when a car bomb exploded at a busy market in Kabul, Afghanistan, America merely shivered. Terrorist attacks are ubiquitous and hard to keep up with, and an individual’s…

  • Nigeria’s Nadir

    Nigerians presently face a huge decision regarding their upcoming presidential election.  The incumbent, President Goodluck Jonathan of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) will try to maintain his party’s dominance which dates back when the nation resumed democratic elections in 1999.  However, he faces Muhammadu Buhari, a former  Nigerian military dictator in the 1980s, whose popularity…