The New York mayoral election is proving to be unusually lively, even by that city’s standards. Zohran Mamdani appears poised ...

I help to manage Slugger by taking care of the site as well as running our live events. My background is in business, marketing and IT. My politics tend towards middle-of-the-road pragmatism; I am not ...

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 idea for Open Sunday is to let you discuss what you like. Just two rules. Keep it civil and no man/woman playing. Comments will close at 12 pm on Monday. Brian O'NeillI help to manage Slugger by ...

When schools serve pluralist majorities but remain governed by sectarian minorities, integration becomes segregation by other means. A follow-up analysis to ‘Take Down the Hurdles: Three Barriers to ...

Vienna found itself separated from its larger neighbour, Germany, in the years leading up to World War ll, despite being both culturally and geographically close. It also shared its most infamous son, ...

I have a buddy who belongs to the Old Banger Brigade. He is a man who has lived his entire life driving cars which typically cost *hundreds* of pounds. I kind of envy him because I would like to do ...

This week’s Northern Ireland Affairs Committee hearing laid bare a troubling truth: the voluntary and community sector in Northern Ireland is teetering on the edge of a funding cliff, and ...

For three of the four Executive parties the misery continues – with the UUP the only one escaping the consequence of belonging to an Executive which gives its members no power to deliver but only to ...

Back in June, when it was revealed that Reform UK were actively considering the possibility of setting up branches in Northern Ireland in order to contest elections, many scoffed. On Monday the ...

Conor Shiels with the Irish News reports that Education Minister Paul Givan has stepped in to save an Irish Language scheme that was under threat of being axed. “The Irish language schools scheme was ...

Jodie Carson is a Professor of Strategic Policy in Practice at Ulster University After a brief reprieve resulting from stabilisation funding, internal NICS efficiency drives and a fairly generous ...