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The Problem isn’t the Party; it’s the People Can Trump’s candidacy create new political alignments? Is a New Republican Party possible? Seán Patrick Donlan I recently traced conservative resistance to Donald Trump. Republicans must, I argued, find...

As a Democrat, part of me delights in the opportunities provided by the coming elections. With Trump at the top of the Republican ticket, Democrats might – just might – find themselves not only with the presidency, but in control of the Senate. But the...

Embed from Getty Images By Seán Patrick Donlan As the California Democratic primary finally, mercifully, approaches, the drama intensifies. At this point, that tension has little to do with the procedures by which the party selects its presidential...

“Necessity may well be called the mother of invention, but calamity is the test of integrity.” That’s from Samuel Richardson – whose famous epistolary novel Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (1740) was a demonstration of that observation. The tale is both...

(Source: University of Limerick) The Juris Diversitas Annual Conference (2015) was held at the University last week from 2-4 June. Organised by Dr Seán Patrick Donlan and hosted by the School of Law, it brought together over forty speakers from around...