US electoral college: An anomalous gift from the founding fathers

‘Winner-take-all’ system means elections can be decided by voters in handful of swing states

Looking at a republic falling apart from the inside

Corn Exchange’s new and final play is a grim look at an alternative 1970s Ireland

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John Dean: Mueller report a road map for investigating Trump

Former White House counsel for Nixon testifies before House judiciary committee

Trump still seeking chief of staff as Nick Ayers rules himself out

Position unfilled as Mueller investigation into Russian interference looks set to end

How Henry Kissinger spoke football when playing politics

Uniquely among US politicians, here was somebody who knew the beautiful game

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Panama Papers: The secret offshore world of the elite

Millions of documents show heads of state, criminals and celebrities using secret hideaways in tax havens

Travel Gear: Wireless sounds from Philips, Nixon’s surfing smartwatch and the hairclip multitool.

University head and campaigner for civil rights and peace

Theodore Hesburgh: May 25th, 1917 - February 26th, 2015

Donald Clarke: Republican free-for-all is the converse of 1970’s situation

Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush have emerged to save the party from its immoderate urges

US-Cuba to ‘cut loose the shackles of the past’

Obama calls time on five-decade policy of isolation and for a new approach to Havana

Gadgets

A case to save your smartphone, the 24 time zone Passport and perhaps the world’s best day pack

Bradley Manning’s humanity will stand out, irrespective of what sentence he gets

Telling people civilians are being killed seen as a bigger crime than killing civilians