The United States is neither poor nor weak. It doesn’t have to sell out its most treasured traditions, its longest-standing allies and its reputation as a generous, law-abiding and cooperative nation in order to put the screws to its own people, to its allies and to those who depend on it for survival. Cutting social…
Donald Trump is a hard guy to ignore, even for us Canadians. Lately it’s been even tougher because he’s been talking about us. And featuring in Donald Trump’s bloviations is almost never a good thing. In case you’ve missed it (lucky you!), he’s moved from threatening massive tariffs against Canada (unless we solve a largely…
The clear winner of this year’s U.S. presidential election is Donald Trump. And who elected him? People who too often resemble me. As a dual U.S./Canadian citizen I take a keen interest in politics south of the border. I am qualified to vote in Wisconsin (and I do). I love watching TV about Donald Trump….
The two major parties in the United States deserve to fade away. That the electoral system continues to prop up the Republicans and the Democrats in the face of such obvious dysfunction testifies to a broken political process. This month Donald J. Trump is being inaugurated as 47th President of the United States, returning to…
“He has shown strength with his arm;/ he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts./ He has brought down the powerful from their thrones/ and lifted up the lowly./ He has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty.” Luke 1: 51-53 I’m writing this column the day…
Americans have done it again. They have brought Donald J. Trump back to the White House after a hotly contested election campaign filled with plot twists worthy of an Agatha Christie novel. Who could have foreseen that President Joe Biden would bow out midstream and yield to his vice president, Kamala Harris? Who would have…
There is a strain in “conservative” thought that says that the world is harsh and that “grown up” societies face that honestly and refuse to premise their social hopes on the idea that people or institutions can be made “nice,” “safe” or “gentle.” This strain is a healthy corrective to the often naïve (or just…
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