Columnists
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
| The Senate should convict ex-president Donald Trump. But the underlying causes of the insurrection, racism and white supremacy, will require far more work to overcome. |
Columnists
Rick Salutin
| QAnon material reflects the decayed, diminished state of a once proud public education system that often fails to teach how to think and imagine fruitfully. |
Columnists
Rick Salutin
| There was much media rhapsodizing about a post-inaugural unity between three U.S. ex-presidents from opposing parties. The trouble is, there's never been a lack of unity among U.S. elites. |
Columnists
Duncan Cameron
| A spectre of fascism looms over Joe Biden's inauguration because neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have been willing or able to address the serious injustices that prevail in U.S. society. |
Columnists
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
| The violent white-supremacist insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 put some ugly truths in stark relief. |
Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| Right-wing Canadian politicians like Alberta Premier Kenney need to find a way to put some distance between themselves and the obvious comparisons to Donald Trump's excesses. |
Podcast
Marc Belanger, RadioLabour
| As fascism increases in the U.S. and Britain, unions have released a guide on how labour unions can fight back. |
News
Karl Nerenberg
| On the very day violent extremists seized the U.S. Capitol Building, our federal government warned us about the rise of far-right extremism here in Canada. |
Columnists
Rick Salutin
| The storming of the U.S. Capitol was, for shock and symbolic value, a homegrown version of 9/11. Except it was U.S. terrorists directed by their president, defecating on their own national symbols. |
Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| Painful though it may be to watch, there's nothing bizarre about what happened in Washington. The U.S. has been perfecting the techniques of "colour revolution" for half a century. |
Columnists
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
| With Trump and Confederate flags waving, violent insurrectionists rampaged through the halls of Capitol Hill in Washington. |
Blog
Penney Kome
| Claiming to have won the 2020 presidential election may be among Trump's most startling denials of reality, but as with most of his words and deeds, he has an agenda. |