An American hero
The U.S. has come a long way. Any doubt about that was erased last Monday. On that day, a Southern black woman announced that she would hold a former president…
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The amazing American economy
Reading a very good book recently I was once again reminded of the irrepressible nature of the American economy. The book is Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most…
America may be broken, Canada not so much
Americans long had a reputation for being the world’s greatest flag wavers. According to a recent cross-border study by the Angus Reid Institute, that may no longer be the case.…
America may be broken, Canada not so much
Americans long had a reputation for being the world’s greatest flag wavers. According to a recent cross-border study by the Angus Reid Institute, that may no longer be the case.…
Row Row Row Your Boat
Gently off a cliff,Throw the women overboard,Republicans want a tiff. The Trump Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which for half a century put an end to most low-quality abortions…
Plague Update: PM Trudeau Has COVID-19 Again
The PM got COVID by going to the Americas summit in the USA recently. I’ve tested positive for COVID-19. I’ll be following public health guidelines and isolating. I feel okay,…
Cut What?
Bernie Sanders has spent the past several MONTHS asking publicly (and privately?) what other Senators want to cut Neither the media nor the Senators themselves have an answer, but the…
Make America fair again?
The United States is the most unequal of the advanced countries. By far. And it’s getting worse. The ratio of the average income of the richest 10 percent to the…
Cory’s 20th Blogiversary Cake With FBI Icing
Notable author and blogger Cory Doctorow got a call from the FBI for his blog anniversary. Yes, it's harassment, and the FBI enabled it by not doing some investigating to…
Will communism as a dominant political ideology ever make a comeback
I took the title from a discussion on Quora about whether Communism is dead or will re-emerge, and if so under what conditions. I don’t believe that the author of…
Mexico Bumps Canada as America’s Largest Trading Partner
Despite all of Donald Trump’s bluster about Mexico and its people, America’s southern neighbour has become its largest trading partner. U.S. census data released last week showed that Mexico’s trade…
Another American Outrage – Have They Abandoned Decency?
What do the United States, Russia and China have in common? Several things and they’re almost always bloody awful for mankind and human civilization. The latest concerns a resolution coming…
Trump is about to get his wish, lock children up longer
In the US it is currently against the law to imprison children who enter the US illegally. The 1997 law known as the the Flores Settlement Agreement (Flores) set national…
Trump is about to get his wish, lock children up longer
In the US it is currently against the law to imprison children who enter the US illegally. The 1997 law known as the the Flores Settlement Agreement (Flores) set national…
Taking Democracy for Granted. We’re Probably On This Road Too.
Andrew Sullivan has a thought-provoking essay in New York Magazine about how we’re killing off liberal democracy and not just in Poland or Hungary or the United States either. This…
You May Not Like These Odds
The odds aren’t good. Three times out of four, the result is war. Such is the nature of superpower politics. Over the centuries superpowers have come and gone. There have…
It Wasn’t Just a Crazed Kid with an Assault Rifle At that Parkdale High School Yesterday. He had Company, America’s "Bought and Paid For" Congress.
I watched Lawrence O’Donnell interview a father whose 15-year old daughter was at the Parkdale, Florida high school where 17 people, mainly students, were gunned down yesterday. The man’s daughter…
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