Month: March 2018

President McAleese opening the Muriel Boothman Centre. The office of President of Ireland is a largely ceremonial one and not directly involved in day to day government decisions. Nevertheless, as the only directly elected...

If I had to identify my greatest shortcoming as a blogger and an analyst, I’d say it was my refusal to consume right-wing media. By keeping myself walled off from their obsessions, I don’t always sufficiently...

There’s a certain prurient attraction to the Stormy Daniels story but also a sense in which relatively view people care because they’ve already internalized all the lessons the affair can teach them. That Trump...

The Kremlin appears to have struck again, this time using a nerve agent in an attempted murder of a former Russian intelligence officer. The former Russian spy Sergei Skripal was deliberately poisoned with a nerve agent in a...

Longtime readers of my blog know that I am not a member of the Chris Cillizza fan club, but I don’t think I’ve been as succinct in my criticism as Cillizza’s CNN colleague Soledad O’Brien was last night....