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What’s worse: That Donald Trump wants to break off trade with Canada, or that the U.S. president doesn’t want us to trade with anybody else? Never before as a country have we been so outraged into collective retaliation as we have by America’s rejection of us, its closest trading partner. But whatever we may think of America’s political trajectory, the...
On Sunday, after 16 straight years of hoarding power and money, the authoritarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán lost one of the last things in Hungary he’d allowed to remain free: the election. He lost with everything behind him but the Hungarian people. He had the judiciary, every level of which he’d stacked with loyalists and, in some cases, created out...
UNITED STATES PRESIDENT Donald Trump is not primarily waging war on Iran. In waging war on Iran, Trump is waging war on human reason. I do not say that war with Iran is inherently unreasonable. Nor do I mean that Trump has offered poor justifications, or justifications that most people would recognize as inadequate, in defence of his war in...
So ends the first co-presidency of the United States of America. A technology entrepreneur took over the American government promising to save it billions of dollars; having failed to make billions of dollars by breaking it, he departed. Here is the essential paradox of Elon Musk and Donald Trump: They appear alike in their awful uniqueness, in their grotesque singularity...
Back in a simpler time, whole days before the United States declared itself a hostile power to its closest ally and threw world markets into disarray only to extract promises that had already been made to increase security on the safest border on Earth, two Canadians announced they were running for the federal Liberal leadership. By the conclusion of the...
“Believe what they do, not what they say”: this is the advice given by sages everywhere. Still, we should listen to what, over the past 100 days, President-elect Donald Trump has said he will do in the next 100. For although he is a liar, his lies are so wholly comprehensive — so totalizing — that it seems as if...
Eventually, every woman must learn that being nice to an egomaniacal bulls—t artist won’t long protect her from him. It’s too bad Chrystia Freeland had to learn this lesson twice. Last week, Trump learned that he wouldn’t be able to insult Freeland at the negotiating table anymore, so he insulted her online. Amateur. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insulted her in...
“Syria is not our problem.” So declared the world’s biggest problem, Donald Trump, seven years ago. “This is not our fight,” he reiterated last week, after Syria’s fourteen-year civil war had changed the course of world history. On Sunday, a Syrian dynasty’s half-century murderous rule ended when the latest, and hopefully last, Assad dictator fled to Russia. Bashar al-Assad’s new...
If only it were just that the President-Elect of the United States is an avowed racist, a proven rapist, and a de facto Russian asset who calls for the use of force against migrants, women, sovereign states, political opponents, and critics. If only, that is, the problem was just him. But it isn’t. He’s bringing friends.
This week the leader of the free world elected to stop being free. How, then, can it lead? The United States of America has inaugurated fascism through a free vote. But the fact of its freely choosing fascism does not make America more free—it makes it typical. Almost all fascists attain power through legal means. Then they do away with...
Just a few days from now, while two major nuclear powers wage war in Europe and the Middle East and a third threatens war in Asia, the world’s strongest democracy may elect to become a fascist state. Many people recognize that this is a dangerous time for the world; many others understand that Donald Trump is a dangerous man for...