The mighty resistance to allowing women to speak, the resistance that shows up in shame, in scrutiny, in dismissal is evidence the people doing so are trying to destroy something they fear

Political leanings can make US citizens act against their own best interests, but when the Governor of Texas signed an executive order prohibiting cities and government entities there from enacting vaccine requirements or mask mandates, it stunned me, writes Maeve Higgins

In the US, ground-up activism has forged the Green New Deal — a last-gasp chance to reverse climate change

When returning to the US from a visit home, I usually fly from Shannon Airport or sometimes Dublin Airport. Despite neither of them being in Cork, both are pleasant enough. And both offer the convenience of ‘preclearance’.

We've been projecting all sorts of contradictory meanings onto the Statue of Liberty for 135 years, and we'll continue to do so