Trump declares victory in Greenland, but the deal exposes a deeper crisis of trust
US President Donald Trump is already presenting the new security agreement between the United States, Denmark and Greenland as a personal triumph.
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Mark Carney: a master of statecraft in an era short of great orators
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Pardoned by Trump and escaping charges at home, ex-Honduran leader’s case shows a nation’s struggle for sovereignty
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Trump’s thumbs-up to Irish reunification breaks with precedent, but evokes earlier age of White House support
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Mark Carney: a master of statecraft in an era short of great orators
For the past decade, global diplomacy has been dictated by one man’s social media musings. Since Donald Trump first glided into the Trump Tower atrium on his golden escalator, he – and what he has to say – has been the story, throwing red m…
When does being ‘apolitical’ become a political act? An ethicist on the Ed Sheeran saga
Headlines this week have been inundated with news of artist Macklemore being dropped from Ed Sheeran’s Loop tour, following Macklemore’s onstage calls to “free Palestine”.
Pardoned by Trump and escaping charges at home, ex-Honduran leader’s case shows a nation’s struggle for sovereignty
A Honduran judge on Sept. 1, 2026, dismissed a sprawling money-laundering and fraud case against the country’s former president, Juan Orlando Hernández. It was the latest stroke of good fortune for Hernández.
Wendell Berry spent his life farming and writing – his legacy is an ethic of care for the natural world
The American farmer, novelist and poet Wendell Berry, died on August 31 2026, aged 92. Berry farmed in Port Royal, in his native Kentucky, for over 40 years.
Trump’s thumbs-up to Irish reunification breaks with precedent, but evokes earlier age of White House support
Donald Trump is a Republican and self-avowed nationalist. That, apparently, is true in an Irish sense, too – even if those terms have very different meanings across the Atlantic.