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‘Tariffs’ is about to become the excuse for absolutely everything we don’t like

By Liz Carolan

Dietrich Bonhoeffer cast as a culture warrior for the right? That makes no sense

By Rev Martin Sauter

Donald Trump should kill off the myth of the first 100 days for good

By Hugh Linehan

In The Settlers, Louis Theroux does something we have rarely seen him do in 30 years of TV

By Mark O'Connell

Europe would be foolish to capitulate to US demands to pull away from China

By Bobby McDonagh

How China uses soft power to exert influence in Ireland

By Alexander Davey

Climate anxiety is like parenthood: you get used to living with constant worry

By Sadhbh O'Neill

Should plans to put cancer warning labels on alcohol go ahead? A doctor and a wine expert debate

By Frank Murray and Jean Smullen

The idea that immigration fuels Ireland’s housing crisis is wrong

By Michael Byrne

Airbnb landlords and holiday home owners are squeezing native speakers out of Gaeltacht areas

By Lorcan Sirr

Sorry seems to be the hardest word - but there’s much value in the honest introspection of Confession

By Alex Fegan

Race to succeed Pope Francis begins with his funeral, as informal alliances of cardinals emerge

By Bronagh Ann McShane

Returning home from Chad, I feel there’s a glitch in western empathy

By Patrick Freyne

Pope Francis was a man of love who ultimately took the timid path

By Mary McAleese

Whoever succeeds Pope Francis, the genie is now permanently out of the bottle

By Brendan Hoban

Pope Francis put women on a pedestal, where they could do no harm

By Justine McCarthy

I had to tell my mother that her father had been tortured for 11 days and murdered

By Oliver Sears

What is the reactionary international movement, Europe’s new political force?

By Lara Marlowe

On this Easter Sunday, can we roll back the stone of cynicism?

By Julieann Moran

Katy Perry’s 11 minutes as an astronaut were a waste of space. It could have been so much more

By Liz Carolan