No border fence: top US border official
The mention of fencing in a recent environmental impact statement from the US Customs and Border Protection agency sparked...
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Luiza Ch. Savage
Luiza Ch. Savage is Washington bureau chief. She covers U.S. politics and Canada-U.S. relations. She created Pipeline Politics, a one-hour documentary on the Keystone XL pipeline controversy.
Is Obama finished?
As the economy sinks and hope turns into despair, the president’s odds of re-election are fading fast
Rick Perry: number one with a bullet
The gun-carrying Texas governor is suddenly the top Republican contender
Dick Cheney, economist
It is an interesting exercise to read Dick Cheney’s new memoir, In My Time , amid the anti-Wall Street bailout and anti-deficit...
Rick Perry’s Ron Paul problem
Watching now front-runner Texas governor Rick Perry campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in New Hampshire over the...
Security trumps trade at the U.S. border
Deeper economic integration has been stalled by a risk-averse U.S. government
State Dept.: no major enviro probs with oil sands pipeline
By Luiza Ch. Savage The State Department today issued its final Environmental Impact Statement concerning TransCanada’s proposed...
Double-dip? Or 7-year "debt de-leveraging"?
In a depressing reality-check on the US economy, Ezra Klein quotes an economist who has studied the aftermath of various financial...
A ‘sugar-coated Satan sandwich’
70 million payments to veterans and Social Security recipients would be at stake if the U.S. defaulted
Clinton & Baird on Keystone, Syria and Somalia
Foreign Minister John Baird met with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the State Department today. Their press conference...