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Trump on tax: the US president talks to members of Congress at the White House. Photograph: Shawn Thew/EPA
Politicians, promises and getting real about taxes and healthcare

Last week Donald Trump demanded that Congress move quickly to enact his tax-reform plan. But so far he has not, in fact, offered any such plan. Not on(...)

An astounding number of voters have been asked for their vote personally by the candidates, election studies show, and moreover, asking more voters for their vote increases a candidate’s chances of being elected. Photograph: Alan Betson
Pressure now on Fine Gael to deliver if it wants to retain power

Politics is increasingly unpredictable, electoral politics especially so. Most recent elections have produced surprise results. Opinion polls provide (...)

Then Democratic presidential candidates Senator Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton take part in a debate at Wynn Las Vegas hotel in October 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. File photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Spilling the beans: Clinton set to blast Sanders over ‘lasting damage’

As the United States continues to focus on the hurricanes battering the Gulf of Mexico and the latest tensions between Donald Trump and the Republican(...)

Brian Reilly: “We are wholly confident that this initiative can be achieved, and on an ethical basis, especially following last week’s successful meetings in New York.”
Housing co-op plan gets thumbs up from US investors

Plans to establish a benevolent vulture fund in Ireland, which would buy up €5 billion of distressed mortgages and let the properties back to the occu(...)

Silicon Valley housing is priced well beyond the reach of the average worker. Photograph: iStock
The great Silicon Valley land grab

The city of East Palo Alto, a wedge of modest houses and light industrial sites in the heart of Silicon Valley, has been passed by in the great tech b(...)

Al Gore attends the UK premiere of ‘An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power’ at Somerset House in London earlier this month. Photograph: Jeff Spicer/Getty Images
Al Gore interview: ‘We’ll show you, Donald Trump’

Just over 10 years ago, An Inconvenient Truth, featuring former US vice-president Al Gore, opened in cinemas. Jollied along by Gore’s now well-travell(...)

‘The alt-right have committed significant violence since the turn of this century, far more than the Antifa, but the opposition cannot stoop to the same kind of tactics and retain any kind of moral authority.’ Photograph: Edu Bayer/The New York Times
Breda O’Brien: Why US needs militant, powerful non-violence

Donald Trump was wrong to imply a moral equivalence between the white supremacists and those who gathered to oppose them in Charlottesville, Virginia.(...)

Trump supporters: Forty-two per cent of American adults are classified as white working class. For two decades they have seen incomes shrink in favour, as they see it, of welfare recipients, “identity groups”, graduates and the rich.
Simon Jenkins: With every sneer, liberals just make Trump stronger

Did I tell you Donald Trump is a vulgar, foul-mouthed, meat-faced, 71-year-old redneck buffoon? To be honest, he is a fossil-fuel guzzling, Big Mac-ea(...)

Virginia State Police inspect the site where a vehicle hit protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia. Photograph: Tasos Katopodis /EPA
Charlottesville: FBI to investigate car being driven into crowd
  • US
  • August 13, 2017

US authorities are investigating the outbreak of violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, following clashes at a white nationalist rally in(...)

Naomi Klein’s new book, ‘No is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics’, examines Donald Trump’s election. File photograph: Ed Kashi
Naomi Klein: ‘Irish leaders drank the Kool Aid’

Last month’s general election turned British politics upside-down, leaving the victorious Conservatives in despair and Labour joyful in defeat. Jeremy(...)

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