Donald Trump and the Miracle in Alabama
As you know, I didn't think that Doug Jones, the Democratic candidate for Senator, had much of a chance of defeating the homophobic Bible thumping pervert Roy Moore.Not in backward…
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Beating off the NAFTA bogymen.
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) might not make it to New Year’s. Who knows? Mr. Trump might just like to go out of this year with a clean…
Discomfort about UCP Leader Jason Kenney’s relationship with the truth winkles into respectable circles
PHOTOS: Jason Kenney, leader of the United Conservative Party and, if things go as expected on Thursday, leader of the Opposition soon thereafter. Below: Alberta commentators Susan Wright, a blogger,…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Maia Szalavitz writes that the atmosphere of competition and status signalling which prevails in unequal societies is directly connected to increased homicide rates:…
The failing final days of America.
This is a time of unease. America has failed us. The heroes of the Second World War are vanishing. The people who touted democracy to the world’s oppressed are fading…
American Maniac: Inside the Trump White House
I always knew that a close look at Donald Trump's White House, and the court of the Orange Emperor, would be a deeply disturbing experience. I just didn't know how…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Damian Paletta and Josh Dawsey report that cash for access is the only way for anybody to raise issues with the U.S.…
How Might A Nuclear War With North Korea Unfold?
Well I'm glad to see that the U.S. and South Korea have ended a massive military exercise without the North Koreans declaring war on them.The US doubled down on provocative…
Donald Trump and the Trumpocalypse
It couldn't have been a more sordid, or scary spectacle. Donald Trump addressing a Make America Great Again rally in Pensacola, Florida.Weaponizing Christmas, and urging his deplorables across the border…
As the pendulum swings.
There can be a pendulum effect in politics. It means that for every aberration noted in one election there is often an equal and opposite reaction in the next election.…
Is Donald Trump Medically Fit To Remain In Office?
It was like the happy part of a nightmare, if you know what I mean. Brief but welcome. As I watched Donald Trump set fire to the Middle East. Just…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Joseph Stiglitz writes about the need to learn from past mistakes in order to build a sustainable economy for the future: To…
Will Bizarro Trump Start a War This Week?
You don't have to be a psychiatrist to know that Donald Trump is slowly cracking up. Or a political scientist to know that he has never been so dangerous.Mike Flynn's…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 46: Trump loses it.
I swear I didn’t want to write another word about Donald Trump. But some weeks – almost any week, in fact – he’s inescapable. So, with apologies, here we go…
Did Donald Trump Just Convict Himself?
Even though Donald Trump must be feeling terribly betrayed by Mike Flynn's decision to cooperate with Bob Mueller, and sing like a canary.As he should, because as I said earlier…
Michael Flynn and the Unravelling of Donald Trump
Two days after Donald Trump was elected president, Barack Obama warned him not to hire Michael Flynn for any national security job. But Trump didn't listen to him, he made…
Why Sarah is the perfect press patsy.
Her name is Sarah Huckabee Sanders and she is President Trump’s White House press secretary. Watching her in action, you get the feeling that she is something of a female…
The Whiny Man Baby President Goes After Theresa May
With a skin as thin as Donald Trump’s it is not surprising that the Great Orange Bloat took to twitter to fire back at Theresa May for her stiff rebuke…
New column day
Here, on how the spin behind the Trump administration’s push for a massive tax giveaway to the rich has no basis in economic reality – and how Canada shouldn’t be…
Has Donald Trump Gone Stark Raving Mad?
We've always known that Donald Trump is a virulent racist, and that strange and dirty things swirl around in his head.And in the last few days he has been teetering…