Canadians might be excused for not knowing who their friends are these days. Our best friend, our buddy, the United States, has in hardly a…

The Americans are engaged in furious debate over yet another shooting. The debate is highly polarized, one side saying the death was murder, the other…

Of the interminable obnoxious comments by the U.S. president, one that particularly galled us Canadians was his threat to make Canada the 51st state. No…

What, the curious are asking, is Trump up to with Venezuela. He has positioned an armada of warships in the Caribbean Sea, including an aircraft…

It hasn’t been very well hidden but, in any case, it is now out in the open. The Trump administration espouses the Great Replacement Theory.…

The United States has been around for 250 years. It has proven to be resilient, surviving a horrific civil war, a number of deep depressions,…

Populism, particularly the right-wing variety, has had a good run lately. Liberal democracy has been set on the back foot. The confidence of people around…

Americans may be the most individualistic of people. And there has always been two sides to that individualism. The founding fathers, inspired by the Enlightenment,…

That a South American country’s democracy might be healthier than that of the United States is a notion that would have been unthinkable only a…

Donald J. Trump represents the worst of his country—the archetype of the ugly American. I have been pondering what selection of adjectives might best describe…

Donald Trump and his MAGA colleagues have decided to do more than abandon America’s fight against climate change, more than formalize climate denial as the…

Back in days long past, in a place called Camelot, John F. Kennedy ruled as president. Kennedy was noted for wanting to have bright people…