Is Washington the Place Democracy Dies?
There’s been a good deal of focus lately on the uncertain future of democracy across the globe. There was Shawn Rosenberg’s paper suggesting that we’ve become so “dumbed down” that…
There’s been a good deal of focus lately on the uncertain future of democracy across the globe. There was Shawn Rosenberg’s paper suggesting that we’ve become so “dumbed down” that…
The White House has lost its Dr. Strangelove. Donald Trump has sent John Bolton packing. The next US National Security Advisor? Who cares? Trump doesn’t listen to people who know…
If you can’t beat ’em you can at least learn how to roll with the punches. When it comes to climate change impacts that means adaptation – measures that will…
I follow climate science closely enough that I expect the coming decade, the 2020s, will witness upheaval of the global systems we have come to accept as norms. By the…
If you want a cynicism overdose just compare what science shows us to what politicians tell us. It’s not pleasant. For some time now I have chosen science over politics…
When she first ran for office Joni Ernst loved to point out her skill at castrating hogs. By her own account she was damned good it. But the Republican senator…
In addition to managing America’s space programme, monitoring Earth systems and the environment, the venerable National Aeronautics and Space Administration has a new role, running cover for a president with…
Is Justin Trudeau a defender of democracy? No. What about Andrew Scheer? Hell no. Both of those hustlers think it’s just dandy that Canada should be ruled* on the strength…
A sobering look at renewable energy from LSE anthropologist, Jason Hickel. If you don’t know who he is you really should check him out. Hickel has written an essay in…
Last year the IPCC warned of an urgent need to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent by 2030. Since then fossil fuel consumption and GHG emissions have increased…
Definitely worth a listen.
Andrew Coyne looks at the Trudeau Conservatives and the Scheer Liberals, or is it the other way around? Does it matter? The two main parties, after all, could not be…
Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, looks at the fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest and sees one thing, mankind’s lust for excess. Whether it’s vanishing fish stocks, exhausted farmland, emptied…
I’ve heard a lot of people who, at the mention of the climate crisis, believe that, when the time is right – just a little longer, any year now –…
The Globe editorial board can’t find adjectives bad enough to describe the blonde-mop FUBAR now occupying No. 10. They did, however, manage to sum up Boris Johnson’s disastrous week of…
The American vice-president, Mike Pence, is a profoundly stupid man. You could say he’s the ideal playmate for America’s reality-challenged president, DJ Trump. Pence paid his respects to his ancestral…
It’s pretty clear now that fighting climate change means fighting power, fighting authority. Across the political spectrum it is increasingly difficult to find people in positions of power willing to…
As our world descends into chaos and, yes, in case you’ve not noticed that is happening, it can be hard to keep up with events. Here are some stories you…
If the Tories keep going like this Queen Elizabeth is going to need a fresh bottle of hand sanitizer. David Cameron, Theresa May and now, Boris Johnson, the Three Stooges…
The Alberta Tories are itching to launch an orgy of cost-cutting. Their oil is worth shit. Before long the bottom might just fall out of the bitumen markets. It’s a…