It’s hard enough to understand the notion that encountering a turban-wearing police officer would constitute some sort of an aggressive attempt at religious conversion, so it’s impossible to understand the impulse that would lead someone to actually phone the police over such a thing. Quebec’s Public Security Minister floated the idea this week of encouraging […]

Two days before my photograph was taken with then-US vice-president Joe Biden, as I stood on the 2016 Oscars stage with Lady Gaga and 50 other sexual assault survivors, Alabama college student Megan Rondini died by suicide after she was raped. I didn’t know Rondini, but I understood her pain. On the night of the […]

If the end of the line for the Quinn family was the Four Courts on a chilly morning earlier this week, the seeds of their downfall can be traced back many years to much sunnier climes. Avenida Arriaga, a tree-lined boulevard in Funchal, Madeira, was a long way from Seán Quinn’s base in Cavan and […]

To the Editor: Re “School Shootings Leave a Long Trail of Trauma” (front page, March 29): The “long trail of trauma” sadly doesn’t just affect survivors of school shootings. It is affecting an entire generation of children who are growing up in the shadow of mass school shootings and lockdown drills — in ways that […]

To the Editor: Re “The Secret Death Toll of America’s Drones” (editorial, March 31): Cloaked in the legal house of cards known as the “global war on terror,” every post-9/11 administration has understated that war’s civilian casualties, but not only in the ways highlighted in your editorial. In addition to failing to account for people […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian grocery chain Magnit has made a $1.78 billion non-binding and indicative proposal to smaller competitor Lenta, topping a rival offer from Russian steel magnate Alexey Mordashov, Lenta said on Friday. The arrival of a second potential bidder for Lenta inflates competition for the third-largest grocery retailer in Russia amid a decline […]

To the Editor: In 1855, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote to his publisher, “America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women.” Although he was referring specifically to sentimental novelists, his letter expressed the larger belief that women’s writing was not worth reading or publishing, that their words and ideas didn’t matter, and […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian grocery chain Magnit has made a $1.78 billion bid approach to smaller competitor Lenta, topping a rival offer from Russian steel magnate Alexey Mordashov. Lenta said on Friday it had received an indicative, non-binding proposal from Magnit to buy 100 percent of the company for $3.65 per global depository receipt (GDR). […]

Long before the likelihood that Joe Biden would enter the 2020 Democratic primaries became so high that his name began to be included on rosters of front-runners, people on the left worried his history of being overly affectionate with female acquaintances would pose a problem. The question wasn’t whether that would happen – in a […]

Well, well, well, what have we here? An Garda Síochána being quietly and determinedly progressive by announcing that, in order to attract new recruits from ethnic communities, it will soon be allowing specially designed hijabs and turbans to be worn by gardaí. I doubt Michael Collins gave much thought to accommodating the religious requirements of […]