On April 4, we commemorated the anniversary of the assassination of Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

During the week of March 25, 2018, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi led a delegation of ten house democrats to Israel and Jordan.

As we await President Donald Trump's "deal of the century”, there are hints aplenty as to what it may or may not contain. The New York Times has written an account of what it believed was an outline of the “deal”.

One hundred and seventy years ago, Ireland was in the throes of a genocidal famine, during which the island lost between 20 to 25 per cent of its population. During the half-decade long famine, over 1 million Irish died from starvation or famine-related illnesses.

You need to prepare yourself for language shock before listening to speeches at the annual convention of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Israel lobby.

I have been involved in politics my entire adult life.

Fifteen years ago this week, while the Bush administration was busy beating the drums for an invasion of Iraq, I submitted a resolution calling on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to oppose this rush to war.

Over the next few weeks, I want to take a look back to February and March of 2003, to those fateful days leading up to the Bush administration's disastrous invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Domestic American politics have become so cripplingly partisan that Congress can't pass a long-term spending bill or deal with the critical issues like immigration reform, comprehensive healthcare reform, or provide the massive funding needed to repair our crumbling infrastructur