Emily in Paris? The French call it Leave Me Alone, You Illiterate Sociopath
Patrick Freyne: She has no French yet she’s thriving in a Parisian marketing firm?
The secret of career happiness? Stop being ‘pointlessly busy’
Unthinkable: Four great philosophers have life advice that’s still relevant today
Diarmaid Ferriter: Demagogue Trump has exploited longstanding fissures in US
Even with a narrow Joe Biden victory there will be no neat resolution
How Donald Trump acts as a restraining influence on Mike Pompeo
US Politics: President’s materialism is in contrast to moral imperatives of his secretary of state
Angela Merkel sweeps in to save the euro zone
Martin Wolf: EU could shatter if it doesn’t rise to its many challenges
Economic evidence does not support claims by ‘Gilets Jaunes’ about inequality
France one of world’s leading redistributors of wealth, according to OECD
What Tocqueville would make of today’s American landscape
Some of his fears about the durability of US democracy have been realised
Greece remains vassal state, a slave to EU and its own flaws
Greece Letter: Amid joblessness and tax chaos, fires erode Tsipras ‘feelgood’ efforts
The constitutional heritage of the Irish revolution
The 1916 Rising and War of Independence were only the tip of the iceberg in a greater social and political revolution spanning 50 years in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
What the Irish did for – and to – the Choctaw tribe
One family of Irish officials treated their ‘red brethren’ with humanity, but Scots-Irish President Andrew Jackson oversaw the tribe’s ruthless eviction from their lands
Brexit is so toxic that some ban it as a topic of conversation
London Letter: Elite’s sneering at majority’s vote is uninspired and stuck in 19th-century
Welcome to the United States, the world’s most unfree free country
Austin Letter: Climb Mount Bonnell and see a land of contradictions laid out below
Peter Carey: secrecy in the information age
The Australian’s new novel, ‘Amnesia’, tackles hacking and activism – so why does he think ghostwriting Julian Assange’s memoir would be a bad idea?
EU leaders must soften stance on austerity or face the wrath of electorates
Loss of confidence in the capacity of its leaders is a big threat to the European Union
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Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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