Further proof, if it was needed, but we have been reminded how rotten and toxic is the current regime in Moscow. Literally toxic in the case of the...

Atop the front page of the Washington Post is the assertion that Democracy Dies in Darkness. This is somewhat limited. Democracy can die in broad d...

This is an anxious time in the history of the land of the free home of the brave. All too many of those who would find freedom in a new land are no...

The video evidence of the latest ICE shooting in Minneapolis is truly sickening. And once again the words from the federal government do little mor...

At the risk of confusing a situation that is already deeply confused (and being facetious to boot) perhaps this is a moment for Ireland to claim so...

They say you should not speak ill of the dead. Well, in these fraught times, speaking ill of the dead is becoming standard U.S government behavior....

The United States arrived in 2026 as a Republic aged 250 years. What will the United States be at the end of 2026, de facto if not necessarily de j...

Back in 1776, at the birth of the American Republic, a sniffle was a serious matter. A cold would be worse. Flu could easily be fatal. All too many...

Another Christmas, another time of celebration that is in reality for all too many a time of separation. There are photos taken at Dublin Airport o...

Splendid isolation was the view over many decades. Europe might be engulfed in war but Ireland, off the continent's edge, was sitting both pretty a...

If you confined judgement on the Trump administration's immigration policy to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement website you would likely be c...

Immigration is not an easy or casual word to bring up in conversation these times. The immigrant, the refugee, the migrant, is being increasingly v...