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The blockbuster Supreme Court term that just ended was a (nearly) unmitigated disaster for movement conservatives. Chief Justice John Roberts declined to overturn precedent on abortion rights. Conservative activist Justice Neil Gorsuch showed he woul...

As the United Kingdom confronts the issue of racism in British society and the country’s longstanding problem of injustice towards people of African descent, it should not be forgotten that the people of the British Virgin Islands are also victims of...

Sometimes it requires a personal rather than political or professional perspective to see beyond the borders of a seemingly divisive circumstance, and to offer a dispassionate comment. I was named by my father after his cousin, Hilary Alfonso McDona...

Around the world, there are millions of people in situations where dominant forces use ruthless brutality to crush efforts to seek common freedoms that every human being is entitled to as a citizen of this earth. Before the completion of this column,...

Antonio’s, my kids’ favourite pizza-by-the-slice joint, will be fine. The rest of downtown Amherst, Massachusetts, where I live — I’m not so sure. Antonio’s is — or was, before March — perpetually swarming with high school and college students, local...

It should be no surprise that Donald Trump has chosen to centre his re-election campaign on appeals to racism and the demonisation of his opponents. After all, that is what he did from the opening of his 2016 run with his invocation of Mexican immig...

Bermuda welcomed its first scheduled commercial flight for more than three months yesterday. Karla Aitken collected her daughter, Ashley, 23, who had at last managed to return from college in Denmark — but the joy of homecoming was marred by sadness ...

Donald Trump has announced that tens of thousands of foreign workers will be banned from entering the United States through the end of the year. It will take longer than that to repair the damage. The new order cancels a range of non-immigrant visas ...

As statues come down everywhere and right-of-centre pundits waggle their fingers and say they told us so, it is important to try to draw distinctions. After all, when you topple George Washington from his pedestal — which many argued would never happ...

There was a comforting reassurance to “We’re in this together” that we heard repeatedly at the onset of the plague. But such semblance of unity was quickly revealed to be a hapless aspiration. Infection rates and levels of fatalities vary enormously ...

A Bermudian-based charity that works in poverty-stricken Haiti warned “kids will go hungry” if donations dried up. Philip Rego, founder of the Feed My Lambs Ministry, said demand for help from the charity’s clinic in Haiti had doubled, but donations ...

It has come to pass, Bermuda’s first female and black Governor. Whether this appointment was shaped by the Black Lives Matter protests worldwide or, as countries rise out of a horrendous pandemic, soul-searching far beyond democratic or socialistic g...