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After a recent announcement that I have decided to retire this column and leave The Washington Post, a Vanity Fair reporter asked me by e-mail about the media’s performance in covering threats to democracy. That certainly was a fair question, since i...

When some of Washington’s leading Black intellectuals gathered near the AME Metropolitan Church in the spring of 1896, they were not in the mood to pull punches. Frankly, they had had enough. And so the members of the Bethel Literary and Historical A...

As the old football saying goes, it’s the hope that kills you. Fans of Manchester United may have briefly wished that Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, might actually have been serious when he tweeted he was buying the storied but stumbling English...

It is increasingly obvious that whoever is running the One Bermuda Alliance has decided to minimalise the amount of time that Cole Simons is allowed to get in front of a camera, speak in Parliament and put out press statements in his name. Undeniably...

A Colombian family hoping to visit Disney World right now may have to wait more than two years to get their visas. The same goes for a Nigerian investor looking to close a funding round in Silicon Valley. Around the world, delays in visa processing a...

“Where there is no vision, the people perish” — Proverbs 29:18 Bermuda, what else needs to occur before David Burt’s leadership is declared an official national disaster? He has presided over blunders and failures that have cost the country a...

When you study the speaking style of Liz Cheney — the unwavering tone of voice even as she is delivering dire warnings about the precariousness of American democracy, the slight forward tilt of her head as she fixes a listener with her gaze, the unhu...

The delegates conference is looming and there is lots of talk going about. The Progressive Labour Party delegates will meet on October 13 and will choose their leader the next day. That person, if it is someone other than David Burt, invariably will ...

Salman Rushdie remains in serious condition after a brutal knife attack last Friday in western New York. Fortunately, he is expected to recover. The prognosis for freedom of expression is not so certain. The motives of Hadi Matar, the 24-year-old New...

I am fortunate to have seen a time when there were hardly any cars on the roads, and when it was only doctors who could own a car for emergency purposes. At night, it would be an exciting game with my sisters sitting at the bus stops to determine who...