Democratic candidate Bernie Saunders follows in a proud tradition of American socialism which has now been forgotten by his countrymen. Alan Chin reports.

Republicans have a history of recruiting celebrities into the party ranks going back 60 years, but find themselves at a crossroads with Donald Trump — who is using his celebrity power to attack rather than to revive the Grand Old Party, writes Kathryn Cramer Brownell

Gay Byrne picked the most argumentative leftwingers, some of them fresh from student activism, to serve as researchers on the ‘Late, Late Show’. Terry Prone says he helped shape Ireland.

Denzel Washington stars as commercial pilot Whip Whitaker in Flight (15A), which opens with a vividly depicted airplane crash.

Democracy can ebb quickly when it is associated with systemic failure, writes Mark Mazower

The United States of America deliberately helped Russia cover up one of its most infamous Second World War atrocities to gain favour with Stalin, new documents suggest.

Bill Clinton is there for Obama in Charlotte. But the big-tent, business-friendly wing of the party he built is long gone. Peter J Boyer looks at how the death of Clintonism could be a major hurdle for the president

I can’t address last night’s State of the Nation address by the Taoiseach, because it was broadcast too late for this column.

FORGET the hysteria surrounding the up-coming visit by Queen Elizabeth — she’s so last empire — our new colonial lords and masters, the EU/IMF troika, are already in town, and how we bow and scrape at their approach.

Investigators from the Irish Air Accident Unit will today be trying to understand why the pilot of the Manx2 Fairchild Metroliner tried to land after aborting two earlier attempts and circling for 20 minutes in a holding pattern hoping for conditions to improve.

WHATEVER one thinks of how the Government is handling the economic crisis, there is widespread agreement that our leaders could be doing a better job in communicating with the rest of us about what is going on and what the future may hold for us.

AS yardsticks go, a hundred days may not be the best way to judge the success or failure of an administration.

ANY body who expected an FDR or a JFK moment, or even an Obama yes-we-can few seconds, at Dublin Castle yesterday would have been disappointed.

OVER the past two years the Bank of Ireland has presided over the single greatest destruction of wealth in the short history of this State.

BARRY George stood trial for a second time for Jill Dando’s murder after the Court of Appeal decided his conviction was “unsafe”.

BARRY George faces a wait to find out if his appeal against his conviction for the murder of TV presenter Jill Dando has been successful.

THE case against Barry George for the murder of TV presenter Jill Dando remains compelling, the prosecution told three appeal judges in England yesterday.

The jury that convicted Barry George of murdering TV presenter Jill Dando was misled by a microscopic speck of gunfire residue of “zero” importance, three appeal judges were told today.

Bedford Blues chairman Geoff Irvine has slammed a decision to postpone the club’s opening National League One game against Rotherham.

IN Iraq there is a misguided bully with guided bombs.

In a cramped nuclear shelter deep beneath the White House, President George Bush stared across a spare wooden table and told his national security team, "Get the troops ready."