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The 2016 election appears on the surface to be weird and different, with all the rules of politics seemingly broken every day. But take a step back, and the General Election is behaving — so far, at least — exactly how it should, given that the Repub...

By ordering Apple to pay $14.5 billion (13 billion euros) in back taxes to Ireland, the European Union has created a somewhat farcical situation. Ireland doesn’t want the money, which amounts to more than four months’ tax revenue for the small nation...

For months now, ordinary people, politicians and pundits have speculated in public and private: is there, you know, something wrong with Donald Trump? Laymen would say he is “nuts” or “crazy”, while a mental health professional might say “suffering f...

Few candidates spell out their policy proposals in as much detail as Hillary Clinton, but there’s still room to wonder about how a President Clinton would set her agenda for 2017 and beyond. One clue comes in the naming of Heather Boushey, above, to ...

Here’s something about the deal to build a new airport you may not have noticed before: if the Combined Opposition get an answer they can’t deny to one issue, they move on to another. Take the question of whether Bermuda needs a new airport. The Prog...

Several weeks ago, the Bermuda College was featured in a front-page news article that carried the concerns of former nurse Meredith Ebbin, regarding our Associate of Science (Nursing) Degree programme, specifically in respect to its sustainability an...

The reporting on August 13 of the rift between Progressive Labour Party leader Marc Bean and three former members of his shadow cabinet raised more questions than answers. I investigated online sources that weekend and got answers and more for a mode...

When President Barack Obama scuttled away from his red line on Syrian chemical weapons attacks in August 2013, he sacrificed his strategic goal — removing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad — for a tactical gain: eliminating Damascus’ chemical weapons ...

At the turn of the 20th century, tourism in Bermuda was becoming established. The Princess Hotel had been built and named after Queen Victoria’s granddaughter, Princess Louise, who put the island on the map by spending her winters here with her entou...

You can argue about when the contemporary era of white male reaction in American politics began. But surely March 8, 1970, four days after National Guardsmen opened fire on students at Kent State University, deserves a hearing. On that day, a student...