Leadership 2026 Candidate Profile – Heather McPherson
What We KnewMcPherson entered the leadership campaign with both the advantage and the burden of being the first choice of the party establishment at a time when the party itself…
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Leadership 2026 Candidate Profile – Rob Ashton
With voting set to begin tomorrow in the federal NDP’s leadership campaign, I’ll take the opportunity to offer candidate profiles - focusing on what we knew at the start, what…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Brian Beutler comments on the Trump regime's absolute lack of distinction between war and politics, and what that means for any hope of…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Ana Marie Cox discusses how Jeffrey Epstein was able to amass influence and commit atrocities by sharing the discriminatory and dehumanizing values with…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Brian Beutler writes that the events of Super Bowl weekend show how Donald Trump - even with the support of most of the…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading.- Gaby Hinsliff highlights the need for the UK (and the rest of the world) to cut ties with an entirely unerliable U.S., while John…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Miguel Xavier discusses the need for social democrats to stop limiting their goals to preserving the status quo, and instead make the case for…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Paul Crider discusses how the Trump regime is setting up the U.S. for explosive internal violence - while planning to blame its victims…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading.- Stephen Beschloss writes that while the specifics may be unpredictable, the broad strokes of the Trump regime are entirely in keeping with a U.S.…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Joyce Vance writes about the purge of any trace of decency in the U.S. right which has found its ultimate expressio in Donald…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Thomas Zimmer discusses how the Trump regime is attacking concept of treating people as equals, while Greg Sargent highlights Stephen Miller's role in trying…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Cathy Young and Cas Mudde each discuss how the Trump regime's "national security strategy" is based on pushing cronyism and bigotry over democracy and…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Jonathan Freedland discusses how the Trump regime is systematically corrupting law, government and morality alike, while A.R. Moxon discusses the challenges of trying to…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- David Suzuki writes about the desperate need to loosen the grip a few megalomaniacal billionaires have over political and economic decision-making. And Matt McManus'…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- G. Elliott Morris examines what voters want out of a political party independent of the platforms being presented to them - and finds…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Daniel Drache and Marc Froese offer a reminder that we know all too well what a Donald Trump "trade deal" looks like - making…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- The UN Environmental Programme's Emissions Gap Report examines the painfully slow progress toward reining in global warming even as the technology to eliminate emissions…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Erica Frantz, Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Joseph Wright comment on the global tilt toward strongman government as the U.S. abandons any pretense of being a…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Paul Krugman writes about the Trump Republicans' decision to impose hunger on tens of millions of Americans - with lasting consequences on people's…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Noah Berlatsky writes about the dangers of treating the existence of marginalized groups - rather than the bigots seeking to dehumanize them - as…