People generally like to keep things simple. Black and white, right and wrong, men and women. But of course things generally aren’t all that simple.…

No society has ever created wealth like the United States. And no other society does today. Its dynamic capitalism with freer markets and smaller welfare…

A recent survey funded by The Wall Street Journal showed some dramatic changes in the attitudes of our neighbours to the south. For example, two…

Reading a Pew Research Center study about Americans and marijuana, I was surprised how rapidly support for legalization rose, and to what heights. From 16…

Starting with the election of Joe Biden in November 2020, U.S. election results have been looking rather good. The midterms in 2022 were predicted to…

Americans long had a reputation for being the world’s greatest flag wavers. According to a recent cross-border study by the Angus Reid Institute, that may…

The Middle East has been an ugly place for some time. It has become humanity’s favourite region for killing each other although Vladimir Putin is…

Early in the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign, Donald Trump was the subject of much mockery. No way this buffoon could win said the pundits.…

The American founding fathers had a vision of a roughly equal society. At least for white people—others didn’t count in either the Declaration of Independence…

Constitutions are in the news these days. More perhaps in Alberta than the rest of the country because of Premier Danielle Smith’s separatist manifesto the…

2015 was a good year. May brought the “Orange Chinook.” After 44 years of Conservative rule, the longest-serving provincial government in Canadian history, the NDP…

The Democrats are quite pleased with their showing in the U.S midterm elections. From where I sit, it doesn’t look quite that cheerful—they lost the…