Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | RadioPublic | Stitcher As evidence mounts that Donald Trump abused the power of the presidency, could members of his own party start to turn against him? This week on “The Argument,” the columnists debate Republicans’ response to […]

It is with great delight and relief that history has been made a mandatory subject on the Junior Cycle curriculum. I feel it is fundamental for students to learn about both domestic and foreign history. It is vital our next generation understands our Decade of Commemoration. One only has to look at the recent Brexit […]

It wasn’t what he thought he’d be doing in his 30s, he said. But was he coping, I wanted to know. Right now, at this minute, yes. But he was sad all the time, he told me, in his reasonably good but heavily accented English. So where was he from? St Petersburg. ‘Your home city […]

Down with Republican wimps. You know the ones. They’re trying to avoid taking on Donald Trump while looking sort of sad about the way our president wanted to trade military aid to another country for dirt on a political opponent. Or just evading. “I don’t know what law he’s violated yet,” said Senator Rick Scott […]

A year has passed since Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist and contributor to The Washington Post and Virginia resident, entered the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul to secure a document for his approaching marriage, only to be slain and cut to pieces, all recorded in sickening detail by Turkish secret services. Though the evidence is […]

One of the first casualties of President Trump’s murky dealings with Ukraine has been the United States Foreign Service, the group of nonpartisan career professionals who serve as America’s primary point of contact with the world beyond our borders. While the House impeachment inquiry has rightly become a top priority, Congress must also act to […]

(Reuters) – Six Flags Entertainment Corp (SIX.N) has approached Cedar Fair LP (FUN.N) with a merger offer, pursuing a combination that would unite two of the largest U.S. amusement park operators, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The move shows how Six Flags, already the world’s largest regional theme park operator, wants to […]

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Austrian sensor specialist AMS (AMS.S) will publish the result of its takeover bid for German lighting group Osram (OSRn.DE) on Friday, a company spokesman said ahead of a public holiday in Germany on Thursday. AMS (AMS.S) had secured 19.99% of Osram (OSRn.DE) shares through direct purchases plus 9.2% as part of the […]

This article is part of David Leonhardt’s newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it each weekday. Does this sound like a healthy economy to you? In nine of the last 10 years, the economy has grown more slowly than professional forecasters had predicted. Annual G.D.P. growth has not reached 3 percent in almost […]

It was hard to imagine a greater contrast. While China’s rulers were celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic with an enormous parade of missiles and technological achievements meant to intimidate and impress, Hong Kong witnessed some of the most violent protests in four months of demonstrations against Beijing’s encroachment on […]