President-elect Donald Trump’s comment about making Canada the 51st state apparently has his supporters in stitches. A man never short of boorish comments to entertain…

In a recent post I discussed how an alienating communication environment helped elect Donald Trump. A number of other factors have been accused of contributing…

President-elect Donald Trump values loyalty above all. He has never hesitated to use menace and harassment to coerce into line or if necessary purge those…

How, exactly, does a such a creature as Donald Trump become president of the most powerful nation on Earth? The blame falls primarily, of course,…

Did the American people just vote, in a free and fair election, to terminate their experiment in Republican government? They’ve had a good run—248 years—but…

Quite a list of American publications, including The New York Times, Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Las Vegas Sun and The New Yorker, have endorsed Kamala…

Why, one wonders, would so many Americans be prepared to elect a president with such contempt for democracy, one of the country’s cardinal values. A…

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has responded to the Trump shooting by asking progressives to “dial down” the way they characterize conservative politicians, blaming them for…

If I should ask what the most prominent single feature of American politics is today, I suspect most would say it's polarization, perhaps dangerous polarization.…

Joe Biden is my kind of leader—bright, compassionate, experienced and, of no small importance, he lead’s by consensus. I think he’s one of the better…

Many people think that Hitler was democratically elected chancellor of Germany. He wasn’t. In fact, some highly influential conservatives convinced President von Hindenburg to appoint…

A recent article in The New York Times took me back to the latter decades of the 20th century and the debates over free trade…