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With its withdrawal from Afghanistan complete, the United States is left trying to remember why it invaded the country in 2001, and to wonder what two decades of war accomplished. Ostensibly the key to the post-9/11 “war on terror”, the US occupation...

From his desk at the FBI's Washington Field Office, Pete Lapp could see smoke blackening the sky above the Pentagon. After the twin towers fell, a sight he and other agents had watched on a television in a supervisor's office, Lapp assumed they would...

The news flashed across dozens of wall-mounted screens as I stepped off the jet bridge into the airport terminal: US commandos had killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. The tenth anniversary of the events of September 11, 2001, was only a few months aw...

We are not likely to hear someone say they baked a cake today but forgot to use eggs and butter. The reason is that it is simply not possible to get good results, when key ingredients are missing. Most would say “come on, it is only common sense to u...

In 2017 at the very beginning of the new Progressive Labour Party term in government, I recall the sentiments and spirit in which I wrote — coming off the back of the One Bermuda Alliance’s failure, but, more importantly, after the disastrous end to ...

The Caribbean region is overtly blessed with a wide variety of peoples, languages, cultures and islands. Some small islands such as Saba and Sint Eustatius have populations of less than 2,000 persons, while other big islands such as Jamaica and Puert...

We are all living in a world with fast-moving events, many of them impacting family life to a degree where the task of parenting has been challenged in ways never seen before. Even here in Bermuda, usually considered a beautiful and peaceful place to...

The surreal nature of international travel in the Covid era was beamed live around the world last weekend. In the opening minutes of a World Cup qualifier in São Paulo between Brazil and Argentina, play ground to a halt when public-health officials w...

On February 24, a resource centre and safe space for LGBTQ people in Ghana was shut down by the state. Since then, there has been a concerted effort to dehumanise and harm queer and transgender people in Ghana. In May, police arrested 21 LGBTQ activi...

“How long? Not long”, a speech by the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr made on the steps of the State Capitol of Montgomery after the Selma to Montgomery march. Since that speech, how many times has that question borne relevance? Do we see an end t...