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With everything on the line for his party on Tuesday, Donald Trump has turned into our stuntman in chief. He has rolled out one phantasmagoric idea after another in recent days, some of them as offensive as they are preposterous. There is the tax cut...

David Burt, the Premier, stated that cannabis cultivation for medical reasons will be legalised within months, with the first licence for production of the drug next year. The legalisation of cannabis for recreational use, as well as the growing and ...

On Monday, German chancellor Angela Merkel announced the political equivalent of a terminal illness. She said that she would step down as the chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union by the end of the year and that she would not run for re-electi...

On Sunday night, the Boston Red Sox defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 to win the World Series in five games. This finished an 11-3 play-off run in which the Red Sox dispatched the New York Yankees, the Houston Astros and the Dodgers. They were wid...

Donald Trump’s defenders and even some of his tepid critics on the Right seem determined to keep their moral blinders firmly affixed so as to narrow the discussion about the horrible incidents such as the mass murder at Tree of Life synagogue in Pitt...

The dire warnings about minimum-wage increases keep proving to be wrong. So much so that, in a new paper, the authors behind an earlier study predicting a negative impact have recanted their initial conclusions. However, the authors still seem perple...

Mass murder at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Shabbat appears to be an especially horrific hate crime. Yet we should not think this is an isolated incident, unrelated to other events in the country. The United States is among the least anti-Semitic countr...

To leave a longstanding mark in history, Donald Trump needs more than low unemployment numbers and a string of scandals. He needs a moonshot. Other leaders have labelled their goals “moonshots”, but to be remembered alongside the original moonshot, a...

These past two years under Donald Trump have given me the opportunity to reflect on a lot of topics that have come up in the LGBTQ community and in our nation. Some of these are thorny issues still worth discussing; many should have been settled long...

While many of the island’s working men’s, community and sports clubs are victims of their own failure to adapt to changing social, familial and business dynamics, they remain relevant and necessary to the micro-communities they serve while combining ...