Opinion

Editor: In April 2012 the DUP expressed anger at the prosecution of Gerry McGeough on alleged "historic" offenses dating back to 1975 and 1981 and ...

Irish Echo Editorial In a few days the result will be in after voters in all fifty states cast their ballots for the next president. At the time of...

Paul Ryan, the Republican nominee for vice-president, admires novelist Ayn Rand so much that he mandates all his employees and interns to read her ...

Farewell Neil Armstrong, you were the man for the task and the times. The passing of Armstrong last week, at age 82, was one of those events that m...

The Republicans are gathered in Tampa this week for their convention and we can expect all the usual razzamatazz and ballyhoo that goes with such g...

I know little about the Great Famine. Obviously I'm aware of how it drastically reduced the Irish population by killing one million people and forc...

The obscure "Fast and Furious" investigation of the Justice Department and Attorney General Eric Holder's actions in response to the probe of Chair...

Obamacare, Romneycare, blahblahcare. Some were loudly cheering the 5-4 Supreme Court decision last week, some were describing it as the greatest bl...

In his vigorous dissent from the Supreme Court's recent ruling on Arizona's immigration law, Justice Antonin Scalia argued that if the 13 original ...

Summer if off to its usual eventful start. There have been soaring and dipping temperatures in the Midwest and East, A tropical downpour that has f...

History will record that on the 27th day of June, 2012, Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin shook the hand of Queen Elizabeth, with the president of the...

Graeme McDowell didn't win the U.S. open last Sunday, and neither did Padraig Harrington. But they combined for the kind of Irish performance in a ...