The eight-month run-up to the US presidential elections will be turbulent. People will demand a president who knows how to fight but also to heal, writes Bette Browne

The election in the US this year comes at a time of crisis for democracy. Elizabeth Drew looks at some of the Democratic candidates.

Bestselling author Isabel Allende talks to Rowena Walsh about life, grief, and why it’s never too late to fall in love

With EU regulatory approval in the bag and US regulatory scrutiny expected to clear in the coming weeks, the €55bn AbbVie and Allergan merger should start in earnest in February or March.

Sixty years ago, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his brother Bobby ran what is considered to be the most innovative Presidential campaign ever.

The US government's killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani is the latest and most dramatic development in the ongoing proxy conflict between the US and Iran, writes Luca Trenta.

The continued incarceration of former US intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning for her refusal to testify to a grand jury amounts to torture, a United Nations official has said.

Three little words, “Yes, We Can”, were all it took for Barack Obama to win the US presidency in 2008.

The latest declaration by the US government has put a greater onus on other countries unite against Israeli occupation, writes Daoud Kuttab

The former US president was right to say that we are all flawed and that ‘cancelling’ people online and demonising them for real or perceived transgressions is wrong and akin to the public shaming of old, writes Joyce Fegan.

She spent a year living in a car while trying to break into the music industry and is now the hottest ticket in showbusiness. Where did this creative powerhouse, who doesn’t conform to celebrity norms, come from, asks Suzanne Harrington.

In his new show, Hector O hEochagain covers all sorts of interesting issues on his journey across the US, he tells Richard Fitzpatrick.

The scandal over a phone call between US president Donald Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky also involves a large cast of secondary players, writes Andy Sullivan.