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Dear Sir, Regarding the recent Letter to the Editor “Let’s get it right: Puerto Ricans are not Americans” (February 4, 2019), we would like to correct the writer’s misperception. All children born in and subject, at the time of birth, to the jurisdic...

Joe Biden has never been coy about his desire to be president, even as he has wavered about whether he will actually make a third run for the Oval Office. But as the former vice-president nears a decision, he is apparently homing in on the worst poss...

Impeachment proceedings next year are inevitable. To avoid a circus, the House Judiciary Committee should study what happened in 1974, when congressional leaders set the gold standard for how to take such a radical step. President Donald Trump alread...

In December 1967, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference announced the “Poor People’s Campaign” to demand basic economic and human rights, especially for people living in poverty. That campaign, led by Ral...

Luis Samudio believes birthdays should be more about giving than gifts. His 50th was no different. The Pennsylvania resident brought three suitcases filled with things for charity when he visited on Anthem of the Seas two weeks ago. He and his wife,...

The Brett Kavanaugh nomination and the subsequent accusations of sexual misconduct is a traumatising experience for American politics but it throws the whole issue of ethics into another realm. I listened to the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford, a...

Sometimes Donald Trump can’t resist. His disdain for the media generally and particular journalists specifically is always bubbling under the surface. At times, it breaks through, as it did at a news conference yesterday. Trump called on ABC’s Cecili...

The bitter debate surrounding United States Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh provides an instructive lesson in how blind party loyalty could disrupt democracy in Bermuda. Earlier this summer, Donald Trump nominated Kavanaugh to be one of the ni...

The weekend brought yet another reason that Republicans should ask the Federal Bureau of Investigation to reopen its background probe into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Deborah Ramirez, a Yale University classmate of Kavanaugh’s, claimed in ...

David Burt, the Premier, beat the drum for Bermuda as a financial technology centre at a conference in New York City this week. Mr Burt had a “fireside chat” with Mercina Tillemann-Dick, chief operating officer of the Global Blockchain Business Counc...

A series of “fruitful” meetings were held in Washington, DC between the Premier, his deputy and members of the United States Congress. David Burt and Walter Roban returned to Bermuda yesterday after the talks when they discussed “significant matters”...

We have not seen much of Barack Obama lately, but on Friday he emerged to give a speech at the University of Illinois that was in part about the danger of authoritarianism in the White House — at the very moment that Donald Trump was descending into ...