To the Editor: Re “Trump’s Talks with Kim Jong-un Collapse Over North Korean Sanctions” (nytimes.com, Feb. 28): President Trump had two hands to play in meeting with Kim Jong-un this week. The deal maker could become the peacemaker — “we fell in love,” the president said in September. This would not play specifically to the […]

One law for the rich and powerful. Another law for everybody else. That’s the underlying message in the testimony of former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould, given this week to the Justice Committee of the House of Commons. For four hours, Wilson-Raybould painted a picture of a Prime Minister’s Office that held itself above the law, […]

For the judicial icon otherwise known as R.B.G., Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s past few roller-coaster months have included being lionized by Hollywood, laid low by cancer surgery, and most recently issuing one of the Supreme Court term’s more important decisions, placing limits on civil forfeiture, within a day of returning to the bench. People who […]

This week, ‘Claire Byrne Live’ interviewed Jacqueline Connolly and her mother Mary Coll on the murders of Clodagh Hawe and her three boys, Liam, Niall and Ryan, by Alan Hawe. It made for harrowing viewing but it raised questions that need to be answered. The answers can help us to prevent such murders occurring in […]

The commentators behave like lemmings: running headlong into a sea of oblivion because of some poor performances by the Irish rugby team. This is fixable: revert to Ireland’s dynamic carrying, as against the All Blacks last November and in their demolition of England at Twickenham to win the Grand Slam last year. Rugby is psychological […]

Polar Bears have such a powerful connection to Manitoba and we’re learning more about them thanks to a partnership between the Polar Bear Rescue Team at Assiniboine Park Zoo and the Manitoba Moose hockey team. Each year the AHL team swaps out their jerseys for a game dedicated to raising awareness — and money — […]

More than 45 years ago, as a 14-year-old farm kid in Oregon, I watched on a flickering black-and-white television as Richard Nixon’s former White House counsel, John Dean, testified about presidential misconduct in the Watergate scandal — and the second-most-corrupt administration in American history began to crumble. Now, watching Michael Cohen testify before Congress, I […]

On June 26, 1940, as Britain was girding for the onslaught of the Luftwaffe after the fall of France, Clementine Churchill wrote her husband, Winston, an admonishing note. “There is a danger of your being generally disliked by your colleagues and subordinates because of your rough, sarcastic and overbearing manner,” she warned the prime minister, […]

Pakistan and India, two nuclear armed states, have fought many wars since our partition in 1947. Our militaries have faced off in 1947, 1965, 1971 and 1999. Between those wars, there have been numerous skirmishes, cross-border strikes and accusations of covert support for terrorism. I have never seen my country at peace with its neighbor. […]

Speaking at the party’s ard fheis on Saturday, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin told delegates “we have to get through Brexit first … and then we must focus on showing the Irish people that there is an alternative”. It was a telling remark and one that should chill delegates to the bone. Fianna Fáil, as […]