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Historians recently rated Barack Obama as the twelfth-best president in America’s history. On foreign policy, they lauded his pragmatism, multilateralism and internationalism. These traits all contrast favourably with his predecessor’s preference for...

Former United States vice-president Joe Biden spent Sunday at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, speaking on the anniversary of a bombing there that killed four black girls in the middle of the civil rights movement. The candidate...

Just to be sure I heard it correctly, I replayed former vice-president Joe Biden’s eye-popping gaffe from Thursday night’s debate instructing poor parents to put the record player on to help their children learn. “#Record player” was trending on Twit...

In announcing plans for a major re-examination of human rights in foreign policy, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wrote in the Wall Street Journal that too many people have pursued an expansionist definition, accepting “new categories of rights,” “ad ...

One of the US Government’s most intriguing health programmes is going to start bearing fruit soon. And the more people who join, the better. The National Institutes of Health’s “All of Us” project, launched last year, aims to collect genetic informat...

I’m a lot more inclined to give Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats the benefit of the doubt than some, but it seems to me that the impeachment trains are running on three almost entirely unrelated tracks right now, and I’m not sure exactly how this pla...

On Sunday, The New York Times Magazine published a series of essays constituting what it calls “The 1619 Project”, a look at America’s legacy of slavery at the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to what is now the United ...

Two years ago when a group of tiki torch-wielding racists held their deadly rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, they shared some common traits. They were white, yes, and they were also overwhelmingly male. The most visible white nationalists are gene...

Five days ago in Lima, Peru, I stood at the top of an awards podium with my team-mates and received a gold medal for fencing in the 2019 Pan American Games. The room wasn’t crowded, there weren’t all that many cameras flashing, and there certainly we...

Social media reveals much about how people think. In short bites thought to be quotes of brilliance, whole worlds of thought and ethics can be released. Take, for example, this comment made on one of my articles: “It’s amazing how a little isolated i...

Eleven days. That is the time it took from a Puerto Rican news organisation’s publication of nearly 900 pages of devastating documents to a governor’s forced resignation. In between the two events were the furious protests of hundreds of thousands of...

The United States Coast Guard sail training ship Eagle will visit Bermuda today. The ship, used to train USCG officer cadets, will be moored in Hamilton until July 20 and will be open for free public tours. Cadets from the Eagle will participate in c...