Rising anger over the various Middle East conflicts involving Israel in the past two years, particularly the war in Gaza ...

In the Slugger Cato Project, our mission is clear, and even a little bit ambitious. It’s not simply to spotlight voices you ...

Watching the events of this week, I can’t help but be struck by the performative nature of it all. Everything is gesture, everything is theatre. Everyone hits their mark, delivers their line, waits ...

Mick is founding editor of Slugger. He has written papers on the impacts of the Internet on politics and the wider media and is a regular guest and speaking events across Ireland, the UK and Europe.

I was talking to a pharmacy owner over the weekend who said they had hired an extra pharmacist over the winter to cope with the rising demand from people with the flu. Experts are worried that this ...

If you heard that there was a flag controversy at Belfast City Hall, you’d be forgiven for checking your calendar to make sure that you were in the run-up to Christmas and not Groundhog Day. According ...

Very unhappy news for farmers on both sides of the border as it seems very likely that the Bluetongue Virus has arrived on the island of Ireland. According to Catherine Doyle and Michael McBride at ...

The recent ruling by the Supreme Court in regards to ensuring religious education in Northern Ireland is delivered in an ‘objective, critical and pluralistic manner’ has sparked a flurry of comment ...

Last week saw the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the military dictator ‘El Caudillo’ Francisco ‘Paco’ Franco, who reigned over an actual military dictatorship for almost 40 years and the ...

The way I originally conceived this project was as a sort of shared inquiry, where the active audience(s) of Slugger would play as much of a role in uncovering actionable insights from these ...

In addition to our normal open Sunday, we have a politics-free post to give you all a break. So discuss what you like here, but no politics.

The last episode (released on Thursday) sparked a pleasingly positive response from the Slugger Community, if not exactly breaking all records in terms of a ton readership. It seems we struck a nerve.