Surfing Irish social media last week was like a long swim through sectarian sewage. The worst tribal tweeters were not Sinn Fein trolls but a sneer of bourgeois bigots unbuttoning their tribal prejudices in unfunny misogynistic jibes at Arlene Foster-Kelly in America. The mainstream media was not that much better. Instead of investigating whether Leo […]

I was at work when I received a very strange text message. “Hi Sarah, my name is Will and I work for a company that sorts through donated and discarded books and came across a stack of your lovely notebooks. I am not sure if you would be interested in having them returned, but I […]

As a first-generation college student, I was always told that college was a place you had to earn your way into and that once you got there, the playing field was totally equal. I saw the admissions process as a kind of sorting procedure, one based solely on merit. I bought into that lie big […]

WASHINGTON — The heavens part. The light shines down. The rise in the oceans begins to slow. The world is once more bathed in the mystical glow of a messiah. Our redemption from Donald Trump is at hand. We have The One again, a New One — another lanky, bookish, handsome man with an attractive […]

The 2020 presidential field is shaping up to have the most diverse group of candidates Americans have ever seen. That there’s a historic number of women leading the pack has been much discussed — and rightly so — along with just how “likable” these women may or may not be. Less discussed, however, has been […]

The legal travails of President Bill Clinton may soon haunt President Trump. A New York appeals court on Thursday ruled that Mr. Trump, like Mr. Clinton before him, is not protected by the presidency from answering civil charges. The five-judge panel in Manhattan said that the Constitution’s supremacy clause does not bar state courts from […]

For going on three years now, Britain has taken a holiday from sanity. A tiny island kingdom whose people once ruled nearly a fourth of the world’s land area squabbles over the terms of its self-inflicted diminishing and isolation. And really, who cares? Those who believe that history has a wicked sense of humor should […]

Beto O’Rourke went to Iowa to start running for president. I know you have a lot of important questions. The most critical, of course, is how he pronounces his name. So, BET-oh. We’ve heard a lot of Bay-tos out there, but do it his way. Also, one more time: Comma-lah Harris and Pete Boot-edge-edge. O’Rourke […]

Bloody Sunday is a wound that has never healed, the symbol of a society damaged not just by the Troubles but the times when the rule of law was suspended during them. That day when the Paras charged into the Bogside, guns blazing, produced an iconic image of a priest waving his blood-spattered handkerchief in […]

Paul Manafort, while managing Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign, is accused of passing private polling data to his Russia business partner, a man with alleged ties to Russian intelligence. This new information, revealed in an unsealed court filing, is likely to stoke the case in Congress for increased sanctions against Russia. Equally importantly, the reverberations […]