So Donald Trump is a champion of women. Who knew? He’d been hiding that facet of himself diabolically well all these years, as he grabbed them by parts of their bodies that newspapers try not to mention and showed them special derision on Twitter, comparing Stormy Daniels to a horse and Omarosa Manigault to a […]

Theresa May travelled to Northern Ireland yesterday to deliver a set-piece speech, reiterating her commitment to avoiding a hard Border, and she will leave today with no one any the wiser about how she plans to achieve this. In Edgar Allan Poe’s classic ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’, the narrator assures readers he is not mad as […]

The debate around a border wall and immigration has become so distorted by President Trump’s superheated nonsense — we must build a wall to keep out all these rapists and murderers, and Mexico will pay for it — that we’ve forgotten what it would sound like if we actually had a president framing the real […]

To the Editor: Re “Challenge to President and His View of News” (news article, Feb. 2): At the White House, President Trump submits to questioning by The New York Times about his threats to the news media. His answers are for the most part a litany of vague personal grievances. The same day, across town, […]

I became a besotted baseball fan at the age of 6, watching the Boston Red Sox, my mother’s ancestral team, march to the World Series against the New York Mets. My parents woke me up near midnight on Oct. 25, 1986, to come downstairs with them and “watch the Red Sox win” — an eventuality […]

To the Editor: Re “Governor Defies Pleas to Resign for Racist Photo” (front page, Feb. 3): Let’s not be so quick to condemn Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia solely on the basis of an image from 35 years ago. To do so is to deny that an individual can change and grow. There is nothing […]

To the Editor: Re “Yes, Venezuela Is a Socialist Catastrophe” (column, Jan. 26): Bret Stephens implicitly and unfairly trashes all democratic socialist countries when he asserts, using Venezuela as the model, that “socialism ultimately requires coercion to achieve its political aims.” Mr. Stephens concludes that the democratic socialist experience in Venezuela is a lesson to […]

It is the ugliest word coined in recent years and represents a wearying head-wreck which has sickened people across 28 nations and beyond. But most Irish people still get the reality that Brexit is about the wages, the mortgage, the kids’ shoes and all of the rest. Many Irish people talk about it with a […]

The country is now in no doubt about the scale of frustration and discontent among our nurses. Last week’s all-out strike threatens to be repeated tomorrow and on Thursday, along with several more days of planned action later this month. The nurses know better than any of us the negative impact it is having on […]

It is the ugliest word coined in recent years and represents a wearying head-wreck which has sickened people across 28 nations and beyond. But most Irish people still get the reality that Brexit is about the wages, the mortgage, the kids’ shoes and all of the rest. Many Irish people talk about it with a […]