It Fits
Donald Trump, Roger Cohen writes, likes to use epithets. During his campaign for the presidency, he coined several: “crooked Hillary,” “lying Ted,” “little Marco.” His latest is directed at a…
Owen Gray
They March On
Former Liberal MP Paul Szabo has been looking into how our democracy works. What he reports is deeply disturbing. Michael Harris writes: His documented investigation makes clear the Liberals are…
Dialogue With The Dumb
William Rivers Pitt admits that, inside his head, he carries on a dialogue with Donald Trump. Part of the dialogue goes like this: You are certainly a man of the…
The Rise Of The City State
Jonathan Manthorpe, at ipolitics, has an interesting column about the rise of the modern city state. Cities, he writes, are where the action is: The tipping point in this movement…
Too Late
It’s been a bad couple of weeks for Bill Morneau. Yesterday he said he will put his considerable wealth in a blind trust. Tim Harper writes: Morneau finally did the…
A Total Screw Up
Surely, no man has screwed up more consistently — and spectacularly — than Donald Trump. Witness has treatment of the family of a dead soldier. Richard Wolfe writes: This week…
Time Is Running Out
If you want to know what future resistance looks like, Chris Hedges writes, take a good long look at what transpired at Standing Rock: Day after day, week after week,…
Could He Be Right?
Sometimes irony is entertaining. Sometimes it hurts. Tom Walkom points to the irony of Donald Trump’s insistence on American content rules as part of NAFTA: Under NAFTA, automobiles manufactured anywhere…
Eminently Sensible
There has been a lot of fury about Bill Morneau’s tax changes. His failure to disclose the full story behind his French villa hasn’t helped his cause. But the main…
Another Canary In The Coal Mine
Everyone these days focuses on the middle class as the engine which drives the economy. However, Susan Delacourt writes, the shuttering of Sears stores across the country tells the story…
The Trump Show
When it comes to Donald Trump, Neal Gabler writes, we keep missing the point. We judge him as a president. Trump doesn’t see himself as a president, Instead, he is…
Not The Sharpest Tool In The Shed
Canadians and Mexicans are wondering whether Donald Trump will tear up NAFTA. The rest of the world is wondering whether Trump will tear up the Iran nuclear deal. Roger Cohen…
Losing Its Moxie
Things have not been going well for the Trudeau government of late. Tim Harper catalogues its problems: Nowhere has the gap between expectations and delivery been wider than on Indigenous…
In Crisis
The United States is in crisis. Eugene Robinson writes in today’s Washington Post: The truth can no longer be ignored: Donald Trump is dangerously unfit to be president and could…
Right Wing Lunacy
There has always been lunacy on the political right. In the 1950’s it found expression in the John Birch Society, which accused President Eisenhower of being a communist agent. William…
This Is The Way Their World Ends
The American Empire is in decline. Chris Hedges writes that the signs of decay are everywhere: The U.S. economy is being drained by wars in the Middle East and vast…
It’s Coming
On the question of electoral reform, Andrew Coyne is an optimist: It is going to happen, eventually. Some day, somewhere in this country, at some level of government, the monopoly…
Making Their Way Bareheaded
An entire generation — those who are presently in charge — has grown up thinking that the Unholy Trinity — Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek and Ayn Rand — understood how…
The Tryanny Of The Minority
Once again, voices have been raised, clamouring for gun control in the United States. And once again, E. J. Dionne, Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann write that those voices will…