To the Editor: Re “As the U.S. Disengages, Peril Ahead for the World” (Op-Ed, June 15): François Delattre, France’s departing ambassador to the United Nations, eloquently calls on America to rise above preoccupation with daily provocations and insults to our values and to civil discourse. He urges us to see the potential consequences of America’s […]

To the Editor: Re “Please Raise My Taxes,” by Eli Broad (Op-Ed, June 26): In our local food coop, customers who bring their own reusable bags are rewarded with a bean, which they can deposit in any of several big jars labeled for support of individual community NGOs (the food bank, for example). This leads […]

On the morning of July 7, 1919, Dwight Eisenhower, at the time a 28-year-old lieutenant colonel in the Army, set out on a drive across the country. For the American military, World War I had illustrated the importance of being able to move large amounts of troops and equipment quickly over long distances, and Eisenhower’s […]

Back in the Olden Days when there was a Sam the Record Man in every mall, you might remember a massive looseleaf book that lurked somewhere in the store. Locked on a metal stand and filled with bright coloured pages (yellow, orange, pink) covered in what must have been a four-point font, it was a […]

Who put the west coast of Ireland on the global map, visually? The honour almost certainly goes to Paul Henry, the Belfast painter whose many exquisite paintings of Connemara, Achill, Kinsale and Kerry virtually invented the genre of the romantic Irish landscape of seascape, lough, mountain, wide sky, and thatched cottage – sometimes featuring a […]

Nature’s temporary solution to the crisis on the United States’ southwest border is upon us, in the form of high summer temperatures that should reduce the migration rate and relieve some of the pressure on our overcrowded camps and courts. So it’s a good time to step back and assess the disastrous cycle in which […]

To the Editor: I voted for Donald Trump in 2016 because I felt that I couldn’t trust Hillary Clinton. Mr. Trump was preaching as if he supported populism and “draining the swamp.” He failed to live up to both, miserably. The two Democratic candidates I am supporting are Bernie Sanders and Andrew Yang. (I would […]

Everybody could use some guidance navigating the world, particularly the young people who are looking ahead to the next steps in their journeys. Who better to provide it than those who have done it all before? We reached out to our readers to collect their advice on life and got over 800 responses. Here is […]

Stealth-like, it creeps upon us. Mysterious overnight rumblings in the summer undergrowth herald mood changes when the morning comes. It’s more of a feeling than anything graspable. But those who know it accept its inevitable arrival once sunny days start tumbling into one another. It’s called the silly season. A slightly daft but so often […]

To be fair, you can’t really blame the IFA for kicking off about concessions made on South American beef. If zombies were pulling themselves out of the ground and chewing on the flesh of the living the IFA would be concerned about the effect on mart prices. That’s its job. We may lose out on […]