10 Years. 55,000 Domains. 1.5 Billion People. A Performance Review Africa Deserves — As the 2026 gTLD Round Opens. March 20, 2026 This article is part of the.africa Commentary Series — a living archive of analysis, precedent, and warnings from the architect of the .africa domain. In July 2024, the people who took .africa gathered […]
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The old order is burning. Allies are realigning. Capital is walking. Is your board prepared? March 14, 2026:This article is part of the Governance, Democracy & Economic Policy Series → The Pattern The old assumption — that the United States would always be the center of global trade, security, and capital — is no longer reliable. We
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March 29, 2026This article is part of the Governance, Democracy & Economic Policy Series → — Yet the Alliance Is Still Burning—The Children in the Room II Prologue: The Template In 2026, a pattern emerged. The U.S. president would announce a breakthrough — an ally agreeing, a deal close, a war nearly over. Within hours, sometimes
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March 28, 2026The article is part of the AI, Cybersecurity, and Risk series → The conference declared AI governance is the unsolved crisis of our time. I was at RSA Conference this week in San Francisco. Hundreds of vendors. Thousands of security professionals.Billions of dollars of product on the expo floor. And the loudest signal
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March 13, 2026: This article is part of the AI, Cybersecurity, and Risk Series → Christopher Yoo’s recent piece in the Business Times—“AI governance: The summit stage is necessary but it isn’t sufficient”—captures a moment that many in the AI policy world are feeling but few have articulated so clearly. The India AI Impact Summit was
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March 9, 2026This article is part of Governance, Democracy & Economic Policy Series → The Epstein Class Mentality — in Four Acts Prologue: The Smirk That clip went viral this month on Social Media. An Iraqi foreign minister, asked by U.S. media if he fears military invasion. Cameras rolling. Reporters leaning forward, expecting fear. He smirks.
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March 13, 2026 This article is part of Ethical Technocrat Series → US company refused to enable mass surveillance. The government destroyed it. Zimbabwe saw the same playbook coming. So did Namibia. This is the pattern. I. The Ultimatum The Pentagon gave Anthropic a choice: remove safeguards against mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons, or
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March 9, 2026Part of Governance, Democracy & Economic Policy Series → An Iranian warship was torpedoed in international waters. The US left. Sri Lanka came. The Pentagon called it a victory. I am not a war historian. I don’t pretend to know the classified briefings, the naval strategies, or the calculations made in the Pentagon’s war
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First published on CircleID — March 6, 2026Part of the ICANN & Governance Series → A Stanford research scholar asks whether the multi-stakeholder model can guide AI. The record of more than a dozen IRPs offers answers he hasn’t considered. Charles Mok’s recent CircleID article, “Do We Need Alignment Between Internet Governance and AI Governance?”,
March Late last year, I wrote about Weaponized Anonymity— how unverified digital signals scale faster than verification mechanisms. Recently, I watched that thesis play out in real time. An anonymous claim surfaced. It was indexed. It was amplified. It was ingested by AI systems It began shaping perception —and causing real-world damage. Evidence was submitted.Documentation preserved.The
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