By adopting narrow grounds for impeaching the president, Pelosi and House members wanted simple charges they could easily explain to constituents, writes Elizabeth Drew

A few months after the 37th president of the United States resigned when faced with the near certainty of impeachment, his one-time senior adviser Henry Kissinger gave his verdict on the former leader of the free world.

There is nothing even remotely unconstitutional about the house’s decision to impeach Donald Trump, writes Noah Feldman.

A joke from the old USSR reported an exchange during a Politburo discussion about a ten-year plan that almost all those present thought was progressing satisfactorily. “Yes,” grunts a dissenter steeped in Marxist theology, “it’s very, very successful in practice, but the theory is all wrong.”

The case against Trump is very different to that against Nixon and Clinton as US foreign policy is at its very core and it comes at a time of rising global instability, says Carl Bildt

I’ve followed and studied politics all my life.

This weekend marked a significant milestone: 25 years ago, the Ulster Democratic Party, the political front of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), announced a ceasefire.

If the US president is impeached, as seems likely, his name will be blackened in history, and the scandal may be as big as Watergate, in 1974, says Elizabeth Drew.

America’s Democrats have made a serious mistake by launching impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, writes Eric Posner

As tensions ramp up between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan, and peace talks in Afghanistan reach a crucial stage, the Trump administration has some difficult choices to make, writes Richard N Haass

Like Donald Trump, Richard Nixon tried to stonewall congressional investigations into crimes allegedly committed in the White House.

A 40-year-old woman who presented a number of faked medical certs in a court hearing has been advised to produce a minimum of €5,000 to avoid a significant jail sentence.

A woman facing a string of charges provided fake medical reports to court on at least five separate occasions, resulting in a string of adjournments spanning almost two-and-a-half years.

Trump shows his political skills against the Democrats

The trickle-down effect of a recession on children can mean poorer quality relationships with their mums and dads, particularly where parents feel the mental strain of trying to make ends meet.

There has always been tension between the White House and the press corps charged with monitoring the motives and actions of the US president, writes Richard Hogan.

The pervasiveness of state-sponsored killings is no excuse for treating murder as acceptable, ever, writes Jeffrey D Sachs.

The Department of Education’s decision not have history as a mandatory subject in the Junior Cert still raises concerns that many students may not then study it in the Leaving Cert, and so as citizens may have big gaps in knowledge of our country’s past and its impact on today.

He has made bold decisions, but that’s not the same as being a good leader, as his motives have been to consolidate his own power in the US, says Scott Cowen.

US stocks ended higher today after the Federal Reserve indicated it is not in a hurry to raise interest rates too quickly.

The Oval Office has rarely if ever been occupied by men without blemishes of one kind or another on their character.

Plans for a solar farm in east Cork are being challenged by residents who claim it will lead to the industrialisation of a rural setting, writes Seán McCárthaigh    

The essential work of the print media is no less important than decades ago. But for that work to continue, newspapers must be given a chance to survive, writes TP O’Mahony.

New Netflix series Mindhunter may deal with serial killers, but the realistic show is careful to portray them as sick rather than suave, writes Ed Power

JOHN Mindermann is part of an unusual fraternity. A former agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), now 80 and retired in his hometown, San Francisco, he is among the relative handful of law-enforcement officials who have investigated a sitting president of the US.

Former president of the United States, Richard Nixon, ensured Father’s Day carried the weight of law.

THE Trump presidency is imploding. 

Though many are comparing Trump’s sacking of the FBI director to Nixon’s infamous ‘Saturday Night Massacre’, the political landscape is very different now, writes Sean Wilentz

Here are the top three films you don’t want to miss this week, writes Declan Burke.

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one,” wrote Voltaire.

Set against an entertainment-driven campaign, tonight’s US presidential debate offers a critical opportunity to ask some hard-hitting questions, writes Kathryn Cramer Brownell.

Yanis Varoufakis sees two blocs lining up to battle each other for the idealogical heart of the West. But despite their claims, they are accomplices, not foes.

Mario Draghi’s quantitative easing may look like a precise business; the underlying economics are anything but.

Owing a significant debt to the Toy Story movies, The Secret Life of Pets (G) is an animated adventure in which a host of New York pets come together to form their own community as soon as their owners’ backs are turned.

In late 1970 the White House received a request from someone who wanted to meet the President of the United States. That wasn't unusual but what made the situation a little more unique is who the request came from - none other than Elvis Presley.

Ryle Dwyer (US foreign policy under Kissinger cost thousands of lives, March 16) presents an interesting case for the prosecution against the former US secretary of state.

US: A legally blind barber was awarded $100,000 by a Massachusetts commission against discrimination after it says he was wrongly fired.

It’s nearly 40 years since Henry Kissinger held political office but he is still influential — and deeply divisive. Neil Robinson says Niall Ferguson’s first instalment of his biography won’t change anyone’s mind about him.

A man sentenced to life in prison without parole on a marijuana-related charge walked out of a Missouri prison a free man yesterday, after spending two decades behind bars.