Hillary Clinton’s one-time rival in the White House race, Bernie Sanders, is launching a national movement to help propel progressive candidates into power in the US general election.

Put aside preconceptions about women wilting under pressure, writes Sharon Ní Chonchúir. 

Parents who are grateful that the use of computers and smartphones keeps children calm seem to be unaware of the potential harm of so much time spent in the virtual world, a new study shows.

It’s the stuff of Republican nightmares: Fox News runs out of advertising time.

Half a century after the march that led to voting rights for black Americans, Barack Obama still faces a stiff challenge in his attempt to tackle racial inequality, reports Toluse Olorunnipa

Americans are fickle in their attitude about domestic surveillance, finds Michael Moynihan

The past week has underscored one more way in which the lives of the super -rich are diverging from the lives of everyone else: The middle class is becoming a matriarchy, while the plutocracy remains firmly patriarchal.

The French and Germans are divided in their attitudes toward their leaders and their economic futures, writes Frederick Kempe

PUBLIC opinion on gun control is as polarised as it has ever been.

Which is the more powerful agent of social change: fear or sympathy?

In the first national poll to be conducted entirely after the opening US presidential debate, Mitt Romney now leads Barack Obama by four points.

In a US election dominated by multimillion-dollar donations, Democratic President Barack Obama’s campaign is about to give small donors a new weapon by starting to accept text message donations for the first time in history.

THE gamer community had a near-miss this week in Ohio when a 15-year-old boy collapsed after playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 for up to five days straight.

Mitt Romney is pressing to refocus the Republican presidential race on jobs and the economy in the sprint to Super Tuesday’s contests next week, looking to blunt Rick Santorum’s efforts to sow doubts about his record on social issues.

YOU gave it a pet name. It knows more about you than your mother does. Sometimes you even sleep with it. In fact, you’re so attached to it that being separated for only a few minutes could send you into a panic.

A POLL conducted by the US-based Pew Research Center finds more than half of all Egyptians would like to see the 1979 peace treaty with Israel annulled.

IT’S CERTAINLY without precedent. Indeed, it’s hard to believe. But it’s a fact. As far as American media is concerned, the valedictory tour of Europe by President George W Bush is of little or no interest compared with Ireland’s rejection of the Lisbon Treaty.