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News, analysis, and features about Barack Obama, the 44th president of the US
Barack Obama ‘should receive no welcome in Ireland’: freedom of Dublin debate reopens
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The Mission. The CIA in the 21st Century by Tim Weiner: Tale of an evolving agency
A fascinating account informed by scores of interviews
Epstein saga has exposed cracks in Maga movement which could fatally undermine Donald Trump
No one is more aware of this than Trump himself, which explains his bizarre rants about Obama this week
Why did Trump accuse Obama of treason?
In the News podcast: Trump, mired in the Epstein files controversy, offers incendiary distraction
Trump accuses Obama of ‘treason’ over 2016 election in stunning attack
Obama says comments by Trump, mired in the Epstein files controversy, linking him to Russian interference are ‘weak attempt at distraction’
Donald Trump could be swallowed up by an Epstein conspiracy he helped create
Trump is learning that conspiracy theories are elastic, self-sealing and practically impossible to disprove to a base radicalised over time
Maga fans turn on Trump as he turns murky over Epstein files
Donald Trump has long trafficked in conspiracy theories and now he’s been sucked into a whirlpool of dark innuendo
‘They called you crooks when you were the best of us’: Bono joins ex-presidents in praising US aid workers as agency is shut
U2 singer sends recorded message with George W Bush and Barack Obama to USAid staff hit by cuts
Pakistan says it will nominate Donald Trump for Nobel Peace Prize
US president has said many times that he deserves the award
Was Iran developing nuclear weapons?
Experts question Israel’s claim Tehran had begun an atomic bomb programme but warn it has the capacity to weaponise its nuclear programme
Israel’s ambition: Destroy the heart of Iran’s nuclear programme
The Natanz facility is where Iran has produced the vast majority of its nuclear fuel
How Trump spat threatens Elon Musk’s business empire: ‘Nobody on the right or left is gonna buy a Tesla’
Billionaire Elon Musk faces rare convergence of threats - collapsing brand loyalty, shaky revenues, and mounting legal and regulatory risk
Maybe what the world needs right now is another Anthony Bourdain
Chef, TV star, rhetorician and more, he proved the truth of a culinary universal language
In a Word...Ancestry
Ireland has proved adept at forging friendships with influential people based on family heritage
Audition by Katie Kitamura: This hotly anticipated novel is psychologically chilling
If you are drawn to novels that raise more questions than answers, this one is for you
So much about Donald Trump just does not add up
With his miscalculations on trade tariffs, tax cuts and more, the future of the US is at stake
Painter says Donald Trump portrait accusations put her business in danger
Artist Sarah Boardman says she completed portrait of US president accurately
Joe Biden may be best to let sleeping dogs lie as new books lifts lid on his final days in office
With the former president said to be working on a memoir, two new books offer damning details of the fragmentation of faith in him before last November’s US election
Google to roll out AI-generated overviews on search engine’s results pages
Artificial intelligence is adapting online information to provide summaries alongside links to help users with queries
Do you want some good news on St Patrick’s Day? Course you don’t
You are in a dysfunctional long-distance relationship with an orange clown. You’re only human. But there is something we can all do
Selma still struggles 60 years on from march for civil rights
The Alabama city that achieved infamy because of state troopers’ violence towards peaceful protesters in 1965 is struggling to find ways to reverse its steep decline
George Clooney: ‘I told Amal, I can still do everything I did when I was 30. But in 30 years, I’m 90. That’s a real number’
The actor is making his Broadway debut in a stage adaptation of his 2005 movie Good Night, and Good Luck
Trump has flown US into turbulence and Americans aren’t sure where they’re going to land
Some Americans see a golden age dawning under Donald Trump, others fear their democracy is dying
A neuropsychologist’s view on Donald Trump: We’re seeing the impact of power on the human brain
US president is proving capable of shredding the rules-based world order and replacing it with a gangland ethos in the Putin mould
Mr Cook goes to Washington and other tales from Trump’s inauguration
Planet Business: Executive order recap, the man who designed Melania Trump’s hat and how the television ratings compared to previous ceremonies
Trump’s inauguration address tapped into America’s violent history of expansionism
US president invoked manifest destiny and frontier mythology behind which lurk native soil genocide and the use of force to acquire land
Why is Donald Trump glaring in his inauguration portrait?
The eerie image of a scowling president-elect does not scream celebration, more startling drama
Trump is like the boy who got everything he wished for. What will he do with it?
The billionaire businessman has managed to connect with millions of ordinary Americans in a way the Democrats cannot
Maureen Dowd: At Jimmy Carter’s funeral, Donald Trump was narcissist non grata
Here was Carter, the righteous, ascending to heaven, as Trump, the felonious, ascended again to the Oval Office
Jimmy Carter’s final miracle sees five living US presidents come together for poignant funeral
Barack Obama was seated beside Donald Trump with former vice-president Mike Pence just behind them
Jimmy Carter obituary: Former US president was unwavering champion of civil rights and a peace broker in the Middle East
An outsider in national politics, Carter surprised observers by winning the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination and narrowly defeating incumbent Republican president Gerald Ford
Biden grants largest single day clemency in US history as 1,500 sentences commuted
The US president has issued pardons to 39 Americans convicted of non-violent crimes
Trump’s return is an opportunity to confront urgent questions about Europe’s future
Donald Trump's return as US president is a clarifying moment that should make European policymakers look again at the terms of the transatlantic relationship
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Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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