Today marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which has played a pivotal role in the quest for global justice, writes TP O’Mahony.

Fake news has been a part of how humans try to dominate each other since well before the ancient Greeks used a hollow statue of a horse to smuggle troops into Troy to break a 10-year siege.

The Bolsheviks’ efforts to change the world remain relevant in our own time of popular disaffection with establishment politics and brutalist economics, says Geoffrey Roberts

During US president Franklin D Roosevelt’s 1933 inaugural address he told the American people that the only thing they had to fear was fear itself.

President Donald Trump has rattled Washington and been chastened by its institutions for almost 100 days.

Eibhlís Carcione lives in Cork city, and will be reading at the at the Ó Bhéal Winter Warmer Festival this weekend in the Kino. She won Duais Fhoras na Gaeilge in 2012. 

US presidents vary between authoritarian figures and nappy changers, writes Olivia Kelleher

Donald Trump isn’t the first wealthy person to run for the Oval Office. But, if elected, unique conflicts of interest could arise due to his way of doing business, writes Timothy L O’Brien

Ireland was officially neutral in the Second World War but, 75 years ago today, German bombers brought the blitz to Dublin. Ryle Dwyer asks if it was error or conspiracy, and shows how the incident shines a light on our young nation’s complex relationships with the Allied and Axis powers

Ciara said: “He’ up,” as she lay beside me, listening to Fionn trotting along the corridor.

Donald Trump’s claim that former US president Bill Clinton was ‘the worst abuser of women in the history of politics’ shows just how politically ignorant he is, says historian Ryle Dwyer.       

What difference do individuals make to history? This question is explored in Margaret McMillan’s new book, History’s People. 

Historian and ‘Irish Examiner’ contributor T Ryle Dwyer fondly remembers his mother Margaret, who had a long and eventful life

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

Although Germany is leading the European reaction to the refugee tragedy by welcoming hundreds of thousands to its cities; the reaction of the rest of the world, most especially the United States, has been one of offering advice and criticism from afar. 

Hillary Clinton has called for a new era of shared prosperity in America and told thousands of supporters at a presidential campaign rally that workers can trust her to fight for them.

A convicted rapist has asked to be put back into prison because he believes he cannot abide by the conditions of his release, parents are being questioned by Gardaí after they gave their children bleach in the belief it could cure them of autism, the rise of Jordan Spieth and the maths problem that has gone viral across the globe. These are some of the latest and most read news on irishexaminer.com this evening.

Michael Clifford writes that Maurice McCabe is the driving force behind changes in Garda culture, a report criticises consistency in dealing with care orders, Liam Mackey pays tribute to Ray Treacy and a US mother leaves her dsabled son in a wood for a week. These are some of the latest and most read news on irishexaminer.com.

On the 70th anniversary of US president Franklin D Roosevelt’s death, Ryle Dwyer examines how Éamon de Valera’s fulsome condolence gesture stunned critics

IT is an indication of the grip Islamic zealots have exerted on the popular imagination that the first reaction to the tragic shooting dead of nine people in the Czech Republic yesterday afternoon was to wonder if this latest outrage was another in a series of deadly attacks carried out by fundamentalists across the western world.

The spread of polio to countries previously considered free of the crippling disease represents a global health emergency, the World Health Organisation has said.

In his final article on the 70th anniversary of the American Note, Ryle Dwyer says an apparent intelligence leak from Ireland was part of a plan to deceive German diplomats.

In the first of two articles marking the 70th anniversary of the infamous American Note, Ryle Dwyer examines the bogus issues surrounding the controversy

She was the Hollywood child star who melted hearts in Depression-era America with her trademark blonde ringlets and dimpled smile.

IN this year of ubiquitous commemorations, the centennial of Jan Karski’s birth has been largely overlooked. And yet Karski’s legacy is more important than ever — nowhere more so than in Syria.

In 1933 when American president Franklin D Roosevelt declared in his first inaugural speech that “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” he was speaking in the context of the Great Depression and efforts to revive the US economy.

To paraphrase Franklin D Roosevelt, September 29, 2008 is a night “which will live in infamy” yet, unlike the bombing of Pearl Harbor to which he referred, we are no wiser after the event.

The Government has been bragging about being on track to exit the bailout on Sunday, Dec 15.

DURING the “Red Scare” that swept the US in the wake of Russia’s 1917 Bolshevik revolution, the justice department launched a cycle of raids against radicals and leftists.

Based on the private journals of Margaret Lynch Suckley, a distant relative of Franklin D Roosevelt, Roger Michell’s misfiring comedy recalls an important meeting between America and Britain on the eve of the Second World War.

WHAT David Gray called his “better sources of information” than American intelligence came from another world.

As the London Olympics draws closer, Robert Hume recalls a time when the games weren’t so PC

"I do not believe that a child can be reformed by lock and key and bars, or that fear can ever develop a child’s character."

HE CAME into office on a wave of promise and promises.

MANDELA, Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi make the list. So too do Bill Clinton, John F Kennedy and Franklin D Roosevelt. Aung San Suu Kyi and Mary Robinson are cited, as is Hillary Clinton.

A Renegade History of the United States

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.

BBC viewers voted Winston Churchill as ‘Britain’s Greatest’. He is remembered as the man who saved them during the Second World War, but he was undoubtedly one of Ireland’s greatest scourges. As Minister for War in 1920 he was the politician most responsible for the Black and Tans.

LAST week’s announcements on the scale of the difficulties faced by our banks, especially that privateers’ plaything Anglo Irish Bank, were staggering and depressing.

The European Commission yesterday cleared the way for the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) to take toxic loans from financial institutions as an important step in restructuring the financial sector.