The Irish Times

Fintan O’Toole: The political centre cannot hold – we need a new consensus

If Macron is re-elected, it will be less because of what he is than what he is not: a crypto-fascist

Sat Apr 16 2022 - 06:00

Elon Musk is just the latest in a long line of insecure billionaires

Paul Krugman: Are the very rich pettier than the rest of us? On average, probably yes

Wed Nov 03 2021 - 12:27

Joe Biden’s America is confused – and so is the world

US Politics: President’s Afghan pullout fulfilled one promise and broke another

Wed Aug 25 2021 - 13:30

‘We share everything’: Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter reflect on 75 years of marriage

At 96 and 93, they say never going to bed angry is key to sustaining a relationship

Wed Jul 07 2021 - 06:00

Projecting power – Alison Healy on presidents and the cinema

An Irishwoman’s Diary

Wed Jun 23 2021 - 19:01

What the parable of Obamacare teaches Republicans

US Politics: There is no future for the GOP as a small-government crusade

Tue Jun 22 2021 - 17:43

Joe Biden set for tough talks with ‘worthy adversary’ Vladimir Putin

American president says US will ‘respond in kind’ if Russia continues with cyberactivities

Tue Jun 15 2021 - 20:26

Struggle between US and China not like the cold war

US Politics: An indefinite state of martial vigilance is more than unruly US can now bear

Tue Apr 13 2021 - 20:27

Experts fear it could take weeks to dislodge huge ship blocking Suez Canal

Egyptian president eager to limit disruptive debacle as flow of goods totally halted

Fri Mar 26 2021 - 17:10

Republicans need to remember that Donald Trump broke through for a reason

US politics: If there is a future for the US right after Trump, it will have to resemble Ike’s benign statism

Wed Oct 21 2020 - 18:32

A history of secrecy when it comes to presidential illness

Trump is the latest in a long line of American presidents to suffer ill health in office

Sun Oct 04 2020 - 15:04

Oh Stony Grey Soil of Montparnasse – Frank McNally on culture, curve-flattening, and carrying on in a crisis

Fri May 15 2020 - 19:01

Bittersweet surrender – Frank McNally on the Irishwoman airbrushed out of a wartime victory portrait

Thu May 07 2020 - 00:01

Will there be a new cold war? Only if the US public want one

Leaders must show that China, which poses no conventional threat, has to be countered

Thu Jun 13 2019 - 01:00

Maureen Flavin, the Mayo weather woman who made D-Day work

Her forecast of clement weather on June 6th 1944 helped to secure victory for the Allies

Thu Jun 06 2019 - 23:15

Janan Ganesh: The big Chinese elephant in the UK-US honeymoon suite

US Politics: The British right cannot court Trump while keeping China as a mistress

Thu Jun 06 2019 - 01:00

For Trump to succeed, he must fail on immigration

Populists do not live and die on their record – they live on a sense of rolling crisis

Thu Apr 18 2019 - 01:00

It’s Dixie, not heaven: Alternative guide to Augusta National

Whiff of racism never far away from a club with a distinctly southern heritage

Thu Apr 11 2019 - 07:57

Why all US capitalists should vote Democrat in 2020

US Politics: Americans must embrace ‘socialism’ to ensure survival of capitalism

Thu Mar 14 2019 - 01:00

Fintan O’Toole: Trump has raised public tolerance for sexual sleaze

Ironically the president gave Jeff Bezos the courage to defy the National Inquirer

Sat Feb 16 2019 - 05:45

US consensus on troop withdrawal dangerously interventionist

US Politics: Opposition to Trump’s plan to exit Afghanistan smacks of ‘horror of retreat’

Thu Feb 07 2019 - 04:00

Xi Jinping’s power play leads from dusty caves to China supremacy

The Chinese president channels early struggles into ascent to leadership

Fri Nov 23 2018 - 01:00

Fellowship scheme aims to promote peace in North

Eisenhower Fellowships to assemble a group of 14 Irish fellows to travel to the US

Mon Nov 19 2018 - 14:46

Trump’s war on Obamacare has backfired on Republicans

US Politics: President’s unforced error is helping Democrats in midterm elections

Thu Oct 18 2018 - 01:00

America at Large: Trump goes to Lou for fitness and health advice

A history with steroids does not disqualify ‘The Incredible Hulk’ from serving on Trump council

Wed May 09 2018 - 18:00

Atoms for Peace or Weapons of Mass Destruction?

When Carnsore Point was proposed as the site for Ireland’s first nuclear power plant

Thu Oct 05 2017 - 16:11

US intervention in Middle East has a long, difficult history

Current effort to oust Assad follows many failed attempts to topple him

Thu Apr 20 2017 - 16:44

Melania Trump to miss Enda Kenny’s White House visit

US first lady will not attend St Patrick’s Day shamrock ceremony with Donald Trump

Sat Mar 11 2017 - 06:47

Donald Trump loves sport, but does sport love Donald Trump?

The US president sees some good hombres and bad hombres even in the sports world

Sat Feb 18 2017 - 12:00

Presidential inaugurations: from top hats to fears of assassination

Patrick Freyne looks at how US presidents have been sworn in across the centuries

Thu Jan 19 2017 - 23:00

On 75th anniversary, US veterans recall Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour

30 survivors honoured at reception in LA before heading to Honolulu to mark anniversary

Wed Dec 07 2016 - 14:38

Close but no cigar: How America failed to kill Fidel Castro

From toxic pens to poisoned milkshake, security men calculate 634 failed murder plots

Sun Nov 27 2016 - 12:07

You’re hired! Trump’s mixed messages on rumoured cabinet picks

Republican mulling a mix of insiders and outsiders for top administration positions

Sat Nov 12 2016 - 01:00

Obama and Trump leave insults behind in awkward first encounter

President and successor show a unified front as they begin formal handover of power

Thu Nov 10 2016 - 21:52