US Politics
Marion McKeone: Unity of North’s new leaders will appeal to corporate America’s chequebooks
Michelle O’Neill and Emma Little-Pengelly’s DC trip brought new life to an old-fashioned part of DC’s poltical calendar, our US correspondent writes
The Cosmos Club in Washington DC’s Embassy Row is one of those olde worlde, older money private clubs that ooze exclusivity and privilege. A cathedral of marble and leather, mahogany and brass, power and influence.
Before 1988, the only women allowed were the ones that graced its walls, part of the tableau of hand-painted murals depicting bucolic scenes from another era. And it may be the only place in the entire United States where tipping ...
