America’s twin national pastimes, firearms and fastballsAllen Abel in Washington: Spring means baseball and guns, and those U.S. obsessions were both on display in Trump’s White House Monday
Fed up with Donald Trump’s crassness, these women are running for office as anti-TrumpsHow three American women, angered by their president and the double standards of politics, are finding revenge as candidates for office
Donald Trump’s Dotard DiplomacyAllen Abel: Like Obama in Cuba and Nixon in China, now comes Trump’s opening for a high risk encounter that seems likely to yield little
Canada-U.S. trade just hit an all-time high, thanks to TrumpGilmore: The Trump era has brought a golden age for bilateral relations—never have so many Americans been so willing to defend Canada
Absolut Trump: A week of chaos and contradictionAllen Abel in Washington: A resignation, more scandal and a hotel ballroom speech so bad that applause lines are met with stunning silence
The Trump administration’s five dumbest economic ideasStock markets can erase national debt? Trump invented a decades-old economic theory last year? On both counts, not so much.
Donald Trump is the Magic 8-Ball presidentScott Gilmore: Now unconstrained by information, ideology or staff, Trump is unpredictable—and it will have two dangerous implications
Is this the beginning of the end of the NRA?Scott Gilmore: After Parkland, NRA opponents are motivated and have the tools to mobilize. And for the first time, the gun lobby group is vulnerable.
Donald Trump’s vacuous fix for school shootings in the face of grief and angerAllen Abel on what the Parkland students told Trump: "I woke up to the news that my best friend was gone, and I can go into a store and buy a weapon of war?"
Why women should rule the worldMartin Amis on nuclear war, the difference between Brexit and Trump, and why all writers really do think about posterity