The Sometime Activist
Apr 09, 2018
4 minutes
By Colum Lynch
Photograph by LUISA DÖRR
“I WILL NEVER SHY AWAY FROM calling out other countries for actions taken in conflict with U.S. values and in violation of human rights and international norms,” Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor-turned-U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, assured senators during her January 2017 confirmation hearing. It was a remark primed to set her apart from the new U.S. president and the rest of his administration, who have seemed more inclined to cut deals with the world’s autocrats than to lecture them for mistreating their people.
Haley has used her current job to
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