Those who held their noses as a rural Irish town feted Donald Trump earlier this year had better stock up on smelling salts. The welcome that greeted the US president in early June was driven primarily by economic necessity. The people of Co Clare milked their moment in the limelight and stroked the ego that […]

The most important campaign news of the summer was Elizabeth Warren’s surge. Early in the year, her campaign was foundering. She was in fifth place, with a mere 6 percent support. Now she is rising toward the top, with former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders. She’s drawing huge crowds — 15,000 in […]

Consider two scenarios about how Washington works. In one, a local activist decides to run for Congress. A friend hosts a fund-raiser for her at his law firm, where 10 partners each give the maximum legal individual donation, $2,800. After she wins, the host asks her to meet with a client, a constituent whose business […]

One of the voices missing from the issue of the commercial relationship between farmers and meat factory owners is that of the cattle. Not as facetious as you might think. Cattle represent the live input into industrial meat production. For them they have no say in their involvement in an industry that relies on their […]

Brexit could yet prove an alibi for an election Budget next month by Paschal ‘Prudence’ Donohoe. No, that is not as cynical a statement as it may seem at first glance – it is simply realpolitik. Yet again politicians will be hanging on developments in the UK as the end game approaches with huge potential […]

Here’s one question that ought to be put to the Democratic candidates at their next debate in September: How would you improve the life of the average home health care worker? The iconic American worker of the 20th century — a man making cars in a Detroit factory — remains the focus of political debate […]

It made news around the world when my parents married 50 years ago this summer. They weren’t remotely famous. Their wedding was no lavish affair. The surprising interest in their nuptials can be summed up by a headline that ran in a Vancouver newspaper, thousands of miles from the ceremony in my grandmother’s modest Boston […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. — On a recent trip to visit my parents, I opened a journal from my senior year of high school to find something surprising. In almost all of the entries, I complained about never having enough time — to sleep, to think, to do a good job on anything. Describing a never-ending […]

To the Editor: Re “Questioning Personality Assessments,” by Quinisha Jackson-Wright (Smarter Living, Aug. 26): I was very sorry to read Ms. Jackson-Wright’s account of her experience with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. There are many ethical considerations for using the M.B.T.I., and the article highlights several ways in which her company did not use it appropriately. […]

HONG KONG – President Trump has called the pro-democracy protests here “riots,” and China has in effect denounced participants as terrorists. Yet even when chaos reigns during clashes with the police, protesters clean up litter from the battlefield. Medics stand by to assist those injured. Crowds part like the Red Sea to let ambulances through. […]