As I have written before, I do not expect much from the Fils-Aimé administration. The Prime Minister carried out what can only be described as a soft coup that few people anticipated.

I am a Haitian-American, and my country of birth has long been governed by a ravenous minority that feeds at the public trough.

Secretary Noem believes that the federal government should decide how people spend their own earnings.

A few weeks ago, I received an open invitation to a dinner hosted by the Haitian American Republican Caucus, whose mission is to “advance conservative principles by empowering Haitian Americans to lead, vote, and shape America’s future

In Part I, I argued that Haiti’s crisis cannot be explained solely through foreign interference. U.S. influence is real and consequential, but it becomes decisive because of our own divisions and indifference.

Long before independence was declared in 1804, there were Maroons—men and women who fled plantations, built hidden mountain settlements, organized systems of defense, cultivated land, and governed themselves under constant threat.

As Haiti approaches the February 7 deadline, one proposal has regained momentum among political actors in Haiti and abroad…

In 1805, as Jean-Jacques Dessalines confronted the unfinished business of independence, he issued a warning about a demon that had yet to be slain and still lives with us today.

What we are witnessing is a system that says one thing and does another. The brazenness is not an accident; it is the point.

This week, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney stood before the World Economic Forum in Davos and did something rare for a leader of a wealthy Western nation. He told the truth.

With about two weeks remaining before the Transitional Presidential Council’s mandate expires on February 7, political actors have once again waited until the eleventh hour to determine what comes next.

The Trump administration exposed a myth many of us carried about what America was and what it guaranteed, not by diminishing American power, but by stripping away the story that once framed it.

As 2025 comes to a close, the Trump administration’s campaign against immigrants has reached a point where its cruelty is but a steady and pervasive condition of our lives.

I will begin with an admission I have made before. I am tired of conversations where our starting point and ending point are the international community.

This essay is the first installment of a two-part op-ed on why Haiti’s majority, the moun andeyò, must build a political force capable of reshaping the country’s future.