WorldMemo to Donald Trump: Canadian immigrants from ’shithole’ countries are thrivingImmigrants from countries the president doesn’t like are much higher skilled, on average, than Canadians who have been here for generations
Economic analysisTrump’s economy looks just like Obama’s, except for one important thingAs Trump marks his first year in office, he’s made America’s economy the same again—the same as Obama’s, that is.
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WorldDonald Trump wanted ’America First.’ He got ’America alone.’Scott Gilmore: Trump cancelling his trip to Britain is a watershed moment, marking a sad decline of the ’Special Relationship’ and American power
WorldDonald Trump’s white supremacy blinds him to the debt America owes HaitiDomise: It is no longer possible for anyone to defend Trump without defending both racism and the mechanisms by which it perpetuates itself
PoliticsHow Steve Bannon struggles with unemploymentTabatha Southey reveals a (completely fictional) transcript of a conversation between Bannon and an employment counsellor
World‘Shithole countries’: Trump uses the rhetoric of dictatorsThere is much more at work here than a politics of incivility
WashingtonDavid Frum: Donald Trump is a threat to Western democracyThe conservative commentator and author warns that ‘Trump-like events’ are proliferating around the world, not just in Washington
PoliticsAsking if Oprah will run for president is the wrong questionWhy is a fantasy Oprah Winfrey White House so appealing, anyway?
WashingtonWhat are the odds of Oprah Winfrey becoming U.S. president?Scott Gilmore: The health of a democracy is inversely proportional to the likelihood a celebrity will win the next leadership race