Fintan O’Toole: The political centre cannot hold – we need a new consensus

If Macron is re-elected, it will be less because of what he is than what he is not: a crypto-fascist

Elon Musk is just the latest in a long line of insecure billionaires

Paul Krugman: Are the very rich pettier than the rest of us? On average, probably yes

Joe Biden’s America is confused – and so is the world

US Politics: President’s Afghan pullout fulfilled one promise and broke another

‘We share everything’: Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter reflect on 75 years of marriage

At 96 and 93, they say never going to bed angry is key to sustaining a relationship

Projecting power – Alison Healy on presidents and the cinema

An Irishwoman’s Diary

What the parable of Obamacare teaches Republicans

US Politics: There is no future for the GOP as a small-government crusade

Joe Biden set for tough talks with ‘worthy adversary’ Vladimir Putin

American president says US will ‘respond in kind’ if Russia continues with cyberactivities

Struggle between US and China not like the cold war

US Politics: An indefinite state of martial vigilance is more than unruly US can now bear

Experts fear it could take weeks to dislodge huge ship blocking Suez Canal

Egyptian president eager to limit disruptive debacle as flow of goods totally halted

Republicans need to remember that Donald Trump broke through for a reason

US politics: If there is a future for the US right after Trump, it will have to resemble Ike’s benign statism

A history of secrecy when it comes to presidential illness

Trump is the latest in a long line of American presidents to suffer ill health in office

Oh Stony Grey Soil of Montparnasse – Frank McNally on culture, curve-flattening, and carrying on in a crisis

Bittersweet surrender – Frank McNally on the Irishwoman airbrushed out of a wartime victory portrait

Will there be a new cold war? Only if the US public want one

Leaders must show that China, which poses no conventional threat, has to be countered