Double vision over US status: right and left talk it up and downAMERICA: THE US has two visions of itself: a rose-tinted belief in American exceptionalism, vaunted by Republican presidential…Sat Dec 03 2011 - 00:00
Too young to vote, but they can be sentenced to die in a US prisonAmnesty campaign aims to prevent the US imposing life sentences on childrenWed Nov 30 2011 - 00:00
Raids on Occupy camps carry powerful echoes of US historyAMERICA : In 1932, first World War veterans and their families camping out in Washington were branded criminals and communists…Sat Nov 19 2011 - 00:00
Republican hopefuls battle over foreign policy issuesIT IS difficult for Republican presidential hopefuls to fault US president Barack Obama on foreign and security policy, because…Wed Nov 16 2011 - 00:00
Sad fate of Jack the lost-and-found cat unites Americans in griefAMERICA: JACK THE Cat seized the collective imagination in the US. Now he has united thousands of Americans in grief.Sat Nov 12 2011 - 00:00
The billionaire brothers bankrolling the get-Obama-out campaignPROFILE THE KOCH BROTHERS: WHAT’S THE WORLD coming to when a billionaire can’t buy a presidential candidate or shut down a labour…Sat Nov 12 2011 - 00:00
Middle classes let out another shriek of pain, this time in DCAMERICA: THE OCCUPY movement that started in the US seven weeks ago has been described as a shriek of pain by the American middle…Sat Nov 05 2011 - 00:00
Mass confiscation of Native American children hasn't gone awayAMERICA: In South Dakota, 700 Native American children a year are taken from their familiesSat Oct 29 2011 - 01:00
US envoy leaves Syria over 'threats'US AMBASSADOR to Syria Robert Ford left Damascus for Washington at the weekend “as a result of credible threats against his personal…Tue Oct 25 2011 - 01:00
Let's hope leaders have changed utterly in dealing with tyrantsAMERICA: “KHADAFY KILLED BY YANKEE FAN” said the front page of the tabloid New York Post newspaper yesterdaySat Oct 22 2011 - 01:00
Obama hails 'end of painful chapter' as Sarkozy speaks of 'milestone'WESTERN REACTION: “YOU HAVE won your revolution,” US president Barack Obama told the people of Libya in a brief statement from…Fri Oct 21 2011 - 01:00
Sleeping giant of US politics waking up and asking to be heardAMERICA : The Latino vote could be decisive in next year’s presidential electionSat Oct 15 2011 - 01:00
Romney confirmed as Republican frontrunnerMITT ROMNEY and Herman Cain delivered feisty performances, while Rick Perry faded into the background in the Republican presidential…Thu Oct 13 2011 - 01:00
How Ireland managed to end up part of the 'New Third World'AMERICA: THE US financial journalist and author Michael Lewis has a favourite metaphor for the global economic crisis: what …Sat Oct 08 2011 - 01:00
Obama has thrown the Palestinians - not Israel - 'under the bus'AMERICA: IN DECEMBER 2008, Judge Abner Mikva, a former counsel in the Clinton White House and one of several Jewish mentors …Sat Sept 24 2011 - 01:00
Gilmore to honour memory of 9/11 firefighterTHE FIRST official act by Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore during his week-long stay in New York will take place this evening at…Mon Sept 19 2011 - 01:00
Shocking moments reveal heartlessness of conservativesAMERICA: Republican presidential debate audiences don’t even pretend to have compassion these daysSat Sept 17 2011 - 01:00
Death of a hero: fire department chaplin Mychal JudgeTHE FIRST recorded victim of 9/11 had started his day at the Church of St Francis Assisi on 31st Street, opposite a firehouse…Fri Sept 09 2011 - 01:00
Damage to Obama and US may be irreparableWE WILL know by today whether the House and Senate are willing to pass the debt ceiling deal that was concluded on Sunday night…Tue Aug 02 2011 - 01:00
Bachmann and her cohorts have the US by its economic throatAMERICA : ON CAPITOL Hill, speaker of the House John Boehner was pleading with, threatening and cajoling recalcitrant Tea Partiers…Sat Jul 30 2011 - 01:00
Give me a crash course in . . . The US debt crisisWhat is the debt ceiling? It’s a legal cap on the amount of debt the US government can accrueSat Jul 30 2011 - 01:00
Right-wing Republicans prefer ruin to compromiseANALYSIS: WITH THE US days from defaulting on its debt, the ugly truth is that a significant portion of the Republican Party…Thu Jul 28 2011 - 01:00
How Dr King's dream ended segregation in AlabamaIn the early 1960s Birmingham was the most segregated city in the US, according to Martin Luther KingWed Jul 20 2011 - 01:00
Desire to shrink government at heart of Republican refusal to raise taxesREPUBLICAN POSITION: JOHN BOEHNER, the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, said this week that it was as if “…Sat Jul 16 2011 - 01:00
US astronauts left hitching lifts from RussiansAMERICA: Yesterday’s launch was the end of an era, and possibly the end of US supremacy in spaceSat Jul 09 2011 - 01:00
Robust and reckless, Hemingway was understated only in styleFifty years ago today, Ernest Hemingway – who loved war and bullfights, hunting and fishing, marrying and leaving women, and …Sat Jul 02 2011 - 01:00
Why Americans no longer say what they mean in plain EnglishIn the United States social mobility and democracy have increasingly blunted linguistic markersSat Jun 25 2011 - 01:00
Senior US military figures critical of Afghan troop exitCRITICS SNIPED at US president Barack Obama from all sides yesterday following his announcement on Wednesday night that he will…Fri Jun 24 2011 - 01:00
How US obsession with addiction has spawned a rehab industryAMERICA: Too fond of sex? Drugs? Food? Gambling? Rehab centres either give you the chance of being cured or condemn you as an…Sat Jun 18 2011 - 01:00
Case of Angola Three recalls a brutal time in a US prisonAMERICA: The plight of three African-Americans who have served 107 years in solitary confinement and their fight for justice…Sat Jun 11 2011 - 01:00
What if they thought I was a silly old fusspot?Featuring in the Leaving Cert English exam was flattering and worrying in equal measureFri Jun 10 2011 - 01:00
Former IMF chief met with jeers at NY courtGONE WERE the rumpled clothing and growth of beard that the former director of the International Monetary Fund wore in the two…Tue Jun 07 2011 - 01:00
Congressman allegedly sent picture of himself in underwearTHE WASHINGTON silly season started early this year, with the so-called Weinergate scandal continuing into a fifth day on Thursday…Sat Jun 04 2011 - 01:00
One white knight needed to lead the party chargeREPUBLICAN presidential hopefuls include establishment conservatives – former governors who “look presidential” – and populists…Thu Jun 02 2011 - 01:00
Patient, calm with 'character hiding in plain sight'ANALYSING OBAMA: It was always going to be tough for Obama to meet expectations – the question now is how he can achieve greatness…Tue May 24 2011 - 01:00
A message of friendship and hopeIT SEEMED providential, the way the clouds blew away, clearing a bright-blue patch over College Green, just moments before President…Tue May 24 2011 - 01:00
'Ireland carries a blood link with us', says ObamaTHE RELATIONSHIP: FROM THE US point of view, President Barack Obama’s visit yesterday was above all a celebration of the close…Tue May 24 2011 - 01:00
All parties got what they wanted despite brevity of visitThe good nature and overall warmth of Obama’s one-day trip was great for Ireland, for the US and possibly for his future re-election…Tue May 24 2011 - 01:00
'Irish brigade' testament to US president's penchant for PaddysTHE PHOTOGRAPH of President Barack Obama and his national security staff watching the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound from…Sat May 21 2011 - 01:00
Civil rights movement the 'most heroic' in United States historyAMERICA: Freedom Riders travelled south 50 years ago in the teeth of savagery to confront segregationSat May 14 2011 - 01:00
US speaker rebuked by Catholic establishmentTHE 12 Boehner children received a working-class Catholic upbringing in OhioFri May 13 2011 - 01:00
Single mother's love greatest blessing for future US presidentAMERICA : Ann Dunham cultivated in her son Barack a pragmatism and self- belief that inspired himSat May 07 2011 - 01:00
Phoebe's mother cries as accused says she is sorryTHE MOTHER and a tormentor of Phoebe Prince, the Irish girl who hanged herself in western Massachusetts in January 2010, wept…Thu May 05 2011 - 01:00
Pakistan may pay for losing trust of US allyANALYSIS: That Osama bin Laden lived deep inside Pakistan has left US authorities incredulousWed May 04 2011 - 01:00
US president may visit crypt of O'Connell at GlasnevinA VISIT to Glasnevin cemetery and the Daniel O’Connell memorial there is being considered as part of President Barack Obama’s…Sat Apr 23 2011 - 01:00
'I told Obama, you gotta go to Ireland. He said, I will'INTERVIEW: US ambassador Dan Rooney is playing a key role in shaping Barack Obama’s trip to IrelandSat Apr 23 2011 - 01:00
A bloodless battle, but American Civil War's 9/11 nonethelessAMERICA : The southern attack on Fort Sumter 150 years ago shocked northern states and galvanised them for conflictSat Apr 09 2011 - 01:00
Drumm bankruptcy hearing is told about year of big spendingFORMER ANGLO chief executive David Drumm, spent more than $72,000 on a Range Rover and stayed in some of New York’s finest hotels…Sat Apr 02 2011 - 01:00
US critics warn that arming of rebels could lead to land warMILITARY CAMPAIGN: CRITICS OF the military intervention in Libya are warning that a decision to arm the Libyan rebels, if taken…Thu Mar 31 2011 - 01:00
Bid to persuade public US has acted wiselyOBAMA SPEECH: PRESIDENT BARACK Obama was to deliver one of the most important speeches of his presidency last night, in the …Tue Mar 29 2011 - 01:00
