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For those of you with children, do you ever wonder how you can raise two children exactly the same way, but get two very different results? I have one who is cautious and one who is a risk-taker, one that’s sensible and one that runs around with pa...

As Valentine’s Day is upon us, there tends to be a focus on all things sweet and/or chocolate. Coincidentally, I just finished reviewing the Consultation document produced by the Government’s Ministry of Health in connection with the proposed sugar ...

Here in Bermuda, we have recently been experiencing the challenges that flow from trash not being collected. It is unsurprising and understandable that many, if not all of us, are upset about the trash build- up. After all, there is nothing positive ...

If you were going to leave your house for ever and had to leave most things behind, what would you take? I faced this tough decision when I left my home city of Irkutsk in Siberia to go to America. We had a huge library with countless books, large p...

Bermudians will not have to hold their breath any longer as the 2018-19 Budget Statement will be tabled on Friday. This will be David Burt’s maiden budget as Premier and Minister of Finance, and it will set the tone for Bermuda’s fiscal policy going ...

Kehinde Wiley’s spectacular new portrait of Barack Obama speaks to the resolute seriousness of the former president and, at the same time, it radiates a sparkling freshness. How exactly can one picture accomplish that? By dividing it into two complem...

It never should have taken a photo of Colbie Holderness’s bruised eye to get Rob Porter out of the White House. He shouldn’t have been there as a top aide to President Donald Trump to begin with, given the longstanding and credible charges of domesti...

More than four months after German voters punished their coalition government at the polls, the two main parties have agreed to try again. If the Social Democratic Party’s rank and file approve the proposed new pact with Angela Merkel’s Christian De...

Peace between the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) suddenly seems closer than ever as the 2018 Winter Olympics open in Pyeongchang. The North is contributing athletes to a binational team wi...

Seeing Kim Yong Nam in Pyeongchang is a bit like seeing a ghost. The nonagenarian figurehead of the North Korean regime and unlikely survivor of many a political purge, the unsmiling Kim has emerged as the public face of North Korea’s charm offensive...