A just-released annual report on the global state of democracy makes for depressing reading. But what's even more depressing is what might appear in next year's edition. Or rather, what might not appear in the 2026 volume: an old democracy, by some measures the world's oldest; a superpower that long circled the globe professing to spread freedom. "If it continues...
I have just two words for U.S. President Donald Trump: Tariff off. How bad is his crazed trade war? Just...
We’ve all heard it, and for a while, it was tempting to believe. No matter how nutty US President Donald...
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When the history of what could be a widening war in Europe is written, it will be interesting to see...
King Donald and his band of enabling Banana Republicans have hit a new low. With the ceasefire in Gaza hanging...
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer rallied his European and NATO counterparts Sunday to shore up their borders and throw their...
It is usually the other way around, given that America styles itself as the leader of the Free World. Instead...
It's obvious that the goal of this tyrannous Trump administration is to break government and democracy. There won’t be any...
LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE U.S. President Donald Trump is plunging the world into chaos. While a certain amount of turmoil...
On Day One of the second term of his presidency Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Restoring Freedom of...
The shocking US pivot to Russia has sent the world through the political looking glass and into the upside-down era...
I have attended the Munich Security Conference (MSC) many times, first accompanying participating Canadian ministers during my tenure as ambassador...
The world’s wake-up call came at 3 a.m. In the early darkness on Saturday, Feb. 1, USAID was suddenly shut...
U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he isn’t ruling out deploying U.S. troops to support reconstruction of Gaza and he...
Last week, I explored Donald Trump’s ambition to make America the global leader in AI, along with his troubling comments...
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A week into Trump 2.0 and Donald Trump already has Canada in an uproar. Getting out of this mess is...
Why did U.S. President Donald Trump wipe diversity, equity, and inclusion off the American government’s map? MAGA doesn’t want to...
It happened in the blink of an eye. Seemingly overnight, the rules of the game — how decisions are reached...
For those who were carefully listening, Nigel Farage had an interesting message in his speech at the “Stars and Stripes...
U.S. President Donald Trump says Canadians would have “much better” health coverage if Canada became the 51st state. He made...
On Tuesday, his first full day as President of the United States, Donald Trump took in a prayer service at...
U.S. President Donald Trump announced Thursday the United States will be asking all member countries of NATO — which includes...
Danish politician Anders Vistisen did not hold back when he issued a public message to U.S. President Donald Trump this...
President Donald Trump delivered two inaugural addresses on Monday; the formal one in the Capitol Rotunda, and the compensatory “real”...
U.S. president-elect Donald Trump threatened Tuesday to use "economic force" to make Canada the 51st state and doubled down on...
U.S. president-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday continued to threaten significant tariffs and said he would be willing to use "economic...
“Syria is not our problem.” So declared the world’s biggest problem, Donald Trump, seven years ago. “This is not our...
Let’s do a quick detour on that just to get some sense of proportionality: How much is $400 billion? It’s...
South Korea entered a sudden political crisis on December 3 when President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law — an...
Joe Biden pardoned two turkeys in advance of Thanksgiving: good for “Peach” and “Blossom.” The president went from pardoning turkeys...
At last, an event the world’s humanists might celebrate. Finally, one of the world’s entrenched authoritarians has been defeated by...
As the world processes the end of the Assad regime and the departure of its brutal dynastic scion, Bashar al-Assad...
I must confess: my admiration for Donald Trump’s political skills grows with each passing day. Don’t confuse this with admiration...
It will forever be a weird fact of American history that Joe Biden and the Democrats, having successfully defeated Donald...
The long-term security of Canada and its allies hinges not only on the outcome of the war in Ukraine but...
A lawyer for Sandy Hook families is dragging Shopify, the Canadian e-commerce giant. That’s because Shopify is powering Alex Jones'...
For a man once deified by conservatives, the economist Milton Friedman barely gets a look these days. The great advocate...
