With Sinn Féin in driver’s seat, what’s next for Northern Ireland?
When Sinn Féin won 27 seats in Northern Ireland’s May parliamentary elections, it marked a historic turning point. That total gave the Irish republican party the largest number of seats in Stormont, the Northern Irish parliament, the first time a nationalist party has done so in the region’s centurylong history. While the now-second-largest party, the loyalist Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), has put the brakes on the formation of a new
