Jun 13 2014
| The leaders who gathered in Normandy a week ago for D-Day's 70th anniversary missed the point. Military heroism is rarely as straightforward as on D-Day.
Jun 13 2014
| Whether you liken Andrea Horwath's 2014 campaign to the Iraq invasion, Custer's Last Stand, or the Charge of the Policy-Light Brigade, it ended, predictably, in confusion and slaughter.
Jun 12 2014
| Last week, the U.S. announced a plan to cut carbon emissions from power plants 25 per cent from 2005 levels by 2020. It's an important step, but what does it mean for the fight against climate change?
Jun 12 2014
| Through its response to the math debacle, the PC leadership revealed its colours: a group that puts ideology ahead of evidence, and that will let nothing distract from a wedge strategy to win office.
Jun 12 2014
| Tim Hudak's folksy persona has tended to obscure two key things -- he remains committed to anti-union legislation borrowed from Arkansas and he is capable of a cynical dishonesty that is breathtaking.
Jun 11 2014
| What's the future of magazines in a digital age? One thing is clear: the magazines that really want to survive understand they're in a business that puts out a magazine and a lot more.
Jun 10 2014
| In its current version the European extreme right represents the Europe of peoples, not the Europe of democracies. The threat it poses is serious because European democracy is weak and getting weaker.
Jun 10 2014
| Hope is resilient; power gained by disinformation is brittle and punitive. What Tim Hudak offers is not hope for a healthier democracy or more jobs. We can do better.
Jun 6 2014
| Each of us has a unique and dynamic microbial ecosystem, and scientific research shows that human-associated microbes influence us "at nearly every level and in every organ system."
Jun 6 2014
| When Bowe Bergdahl was reported missing in Afghanistan on the morning of June 30, 2009, a crack formed in the U.S. narrative about the longest war in the nation's history.
Jun 6 2014
| Populism can be a good starting point for political action. What really matters is: where do you go then? The difference with right-wing populism is that it rejects the social route.
Jun 5 2014
| Outlining his plan to turn Canada into an "energy superpower," Stephen Harper described plans to develop the tar sands as "an enterprise of epic proportions, akin to the building of the Pyramids."
Jun 5 2014
| If we leave behind the win-lose, ideological lens of left and right, we can wake up to the fact that most of us in the NDP and the Liberal party and the Greens are in the sharing and caring camp.
Jun 4 2014
| The Solar Roadways project got more than $1.8 million in donations, despite the plan making as much scientific sense as growing all our vegetables on the tops of our heads.
Jun 3 2014
| So long as social democratic market economics remain indistinguishable from neoliberalism, expect European discontent to continue.
