President Trump has been trimming the upper ranks of his administration. He has, for instance, fired two of his more notorious cabinet members: Kristi Noem…

The heads of large corporations are perhaps the most powerful men in the United States. And not the least among them are the CEOs of…

The American administration has been expressing concern lately about the “decline” of Western civilization. The villain is Europe. Chief purveyor of this notion is Vice…

A recent article in Science Daily expounds on the trials and tribulations of the American middle-aged. It appears that compared to both earlier generations and…

No institutions have put more people into the middle class than unions. They were largely responsible for turning a job in manufacturing into an entry…

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…