Editorials

The relaunch of President Boakai's biography has sparked a promising push to bring the life stories of Liberia's leaders into the classroom. THE ANALYST welcomes the idea, but warns it will serve the nation only if every president is…

THE LATEST STANDOFF at the University of Liberia is a familiar and dispiriting spectacle. Once again the nation's premier public university enters a new semester not with the promise of learning, but with competing directives, hardened…

TODAY, at twenty-eight years of unbroken existence, we bow first in gratitude to God Almighty, and then to the readers, business partners and well-wishers who have carried THE ANALYST from a hunted upstart in 1998 to the seasoned watchdog…

Liberia has reached a dangerous point in the war against illicit drugs where the question is no longer simply who imported the cocaine, who financed it, or who intended to distribute it. The more disturbing question now confronting the…

By Hon. Musa Hassan Bility This week’s Letter from Saclepea comes from Providence, Rhode Island. For nearly two weeks, Liberia’s public conversation has been dominated by drugs and their devastating impact on our country. Yet I…

This newspaper believes the Government of Liberia owes the Liberian people one thing above every other in this historic cocaine investigation: unwavering focus. When nearly four thousand plates of suspected cocaine, valued at hundreds of…

AS LIBERIA COMMEMORATES 179 years of independence, the anniversary arrives at a moment of both national pride and sober reflection. The Republic has preserved constitutional democracy, maintained peace through successive democratic…

ONE HUNDRED AND seventy-nine years ago this month, a small assembly of freed men and women gathered in Monrovia and did what no other people on this continent had yet dared to do: they proclaimed to the world a free, sovereign, and…

SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY HAPPENED this week, and its significance should not be lost in the noise it will surely generate. The Secretary General of Liberia's largest opposition party wrote to the Embassy of the United States asking a…

POWER HAS AN unusual way of changing people. Yesterday's humble politician becomes today's impatient ruler. Yesterday's advocate of accountability becomes today's loudest critic of accountability. Yesterday's victim of official arrogance…