On October 13, 2024, Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich broke the women’s marathon World Record by nearly two minutes. She finished the race in a remarkable 2:09:56, which landed her tenth overall in the ...

The Biden administration has announced that it will invoke emergency powers to deal with $7 billion of currently frozen assets held by the Afghan central bank in New York. The aim is for $3.5 billion ...

The fact that the two major parties in Nigeria have set a huge sum for political participation in the competition to become president has shown that Nigeria is not a democracy but an oligarchy . The ...

In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle lists the virtue of magnanimity among the moral virtues. The magnanimous man is, literally, “great-souled,” because he aspires to great and honorable things, on ...

Despite Peking’s attempts to minimize the disaster, China’s worst floods in a century have drowned hundreds, made tens of thousands homeless, and turned an area the size of Missouri, Arkansas, ...

The United National Congress’ (UNC) overwhel­ming victory last Monday was nothing short of spectacular. One of my colleagues called it an Eric Williams moment, meaning that Trinibagonians had ...

FRENCH history furnishes an interesting parallel to the magnanimity shown by Napoleon to the University of Pavia referred to in your issue of July 15. When Rudyerd was engaged in building the second ...

Taiwan’s failed 2025 recall votes exposed voter fatigue with DPP slogans while not signalling support for China. With official dialogues shut since 2016 and travel curbs in place, both sides face a ...