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Paul Wells

Maclean’s senior writer Paul Wells writes about politics across Canada and abroad. Except sometimes he ignores politics and writes about music or something else.

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President Obama, can you hear me—I’m in town

Fun fact: there are also reporters in Ottawa, but they’re the wrong kind of reporters

States of mind

I just filed a news story for our next print edition about First Principles: The Crazy Business of Doing Serious Science , Howard...

Danish bitter

Rasmussen ! The day’s tractations in Strasbourg have been interesting, and I’m sure one day in Peter MacKay’s memoirs (a few...

Ah, nostalgia

— Zvi Y. Gitelman, A Century of Ambivalence — Peter H. Solomon, Soviet Criminal Justice Under Stalin — Rick Salutin, today’s...

Situational thinking

A colleague who has been increasingly frustrated with Michael Ignatieff’s refusal to take substantive positions sent me an email...

G-20: Fair’s fair

Here’s Paul Martin arguing , in the pages of Foreign Affairs, four years ago, that a leaders’ G-20 would be a good idea. And now...