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FAR FROM the life-sustaining light of the sun, the deep sea floor appears barren and desolate. Its appearance, however, belies...
It takes effort to recapture how Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s hastened the demise of the Soviet...
As Delta State Government plans to readjust its 2020 budget, the state governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, has pledged to remodel priorities...
HAD LEXINGTON’S 2007 incarnation been informed that the next Republican president would be a pro-gay, pro-choice, thrice-wed New Yorker, the...
IT HAS BEEN a difficult eight years since Tunisia toppled its dictator and embraced democracy in 2011. The economy remains...
IT IS 5 AM, and New Covent Garden Market is in full swing. On its swarming 57-acre site in Battersea,...
AS WE WENT to press on October 17th Britain’s prime minister, Boris Johnson, and Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European...
A FRIEND ONCE asked Margaret Thatcher what she would do differently if she had her time again. After a pause...
FROM ONE year to the next, you cannot feel the difference. As the decades stack up, though, the story becomes...
THE FEDERAL RESERVE had plenty to fret about as it prepared to discuss policy interest rates on September 17th and...
ROBERT MUGABE had been out of power for nearly two years when he died on September 6th (see Obituary). He...
EVERY FIVE years the appointment of a new team at the European Commission is a chance to steer the European...
WAVING FIGHTING sticks, improvised spears and shields, they advanced like an army through the streets of central Johannesburg, chanting and...
ADECADE AGO Altria, which makes Marlboros, span off its non-american business, Philip Morris International (PMI). The split was driven partly...