There's a great family drama going on just beneath the surface of those nearly unwatchable NDP leadership debates. Watchable TV isn't everything.

There's been some good public debate about the need for changes to the Investment Canada process in light of Caterpillar's incredible actions in London.

The leadership of the Catholic Church has launched what amounts to a holy war against U.S. President Barack Obama.

Nathan Cullen is the 39-year-old come-from-behind NDP leadership candidate who is turning heads with his communication and charisma. He's the breath of fresh air the party and the country need.

Adherence to any one theory of knowledge -- whether intentional or unintentional, postmodern or positivist -- inevitably leads to a fragmented picture that makes one inept at adequate explanation.

With an election expected as early as this spring, Pauline Marois and the sovereignist movement can thank Stephen Harper for putting the PQ back in the running to form the next government.

An often-acrimonious divide exists between feminists who call for the abolition of sex work and feminists who favour its decriminalization.

The Shafia case is so unsettling that it seems to unleash the search for a single key to explain it. Then you could toss away other keys that don't work. But I don't think that's the way to go.

After his super PACs flooded the airwaves with millions of dollars' worth of ads in a state where nearly half of the homeowners are underwater, Mitt Romney talked about whom he wants to represent.

This month on the Hennessy Index: the Harper government's proposed changes to Canada's Old Age Security (OAS).

When Stephen Harper was in Davos, Switzerland, last week to address the World Economic Forum, he did not talk about the subject of the conference. Instead he presented his austerity plan for Canada.

Since the mid-1980s, the guiding principle of neo-liberalism seems to have been, "Ask not what your economy can do for you, ask what you can do for your economy."

Consider this a delayed obituary for McClelland & Stewart, "The Canadian Publishers," which effectively expired this month after a lengthy decline in the care of several owners.

The triumphalism of the federal government throughout the global crisis has become increasingly far-fetched, but the Harper government shows no shame in continuing to milk it for all it's worth.

In his State of the Union address, many heard echoes of the Barack Obama of old. Among the populist pledges rolled out in the speech was tough talk against the too-big-to-fail banks.

Why am I so taken with iBooks Author? Because it's not just for textbooks, and not just for textbook publishers. It is a fantastic tool for communications professionals, including journalists.

Two recent articles on conservatism are worth considering: Cory Robin's insightful articulation of the classic progressive critique of the right and Stephen Hayward's thoughtful self-critique.

The more I watch the current crop of Republican presidential hopefuls the more it is obvious that we are in a 21st-century society being governed by 18th- and 19th-century thinking.

Close observers of U.S. politics were surprised to see Newt Gingrich win the South Carolina primary. Of equal surprise to Canadians was seeing Gingrich single out Stephen Harper in his victory speech.

New York oncologist Dr. Rafil Dhafir was sentenced to 22 years for consciously violating the sanctions against the people of Iraq and remains behind bars in one of the most brutal of U.S. prisons.

I never much liked storytelling as a model for Life Itself and this may be a hint that it's due for retirement. In Canada it had a particularly strong run as a model for Canadian culture.

Companies are increasingly willing to precipitate their own work stoppages -- through management lockouts -- to enforce demands for lower wages and benefits.

Wednesday, Jan. 18, marked the largest online protest in the history of the Internet. Websites from large to small "went dark" in protest of proposed anti-piracy legislation in the U.S.

Human being settle. Not settle, as in "contents may settle during shipping," although that does happen with age. I mean settle in the sense of "make do."

Hundreds of shivering factory workers locked out of their plant by manufacturing giant Caterpillar in London, Ont., might draw some warm comfort from -- of all things -- the sayings of Newt Gingrich.