Reading Time: 4 minutes Infamous phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull will become the stuff of legend
Category: World
Irena Sendler’s remarkable courage should inspire us all
Reading Time: 3 minutes As a member of the Polish underground in Warsaw, Sendler saved thousands of Jewish children from the Nazis because she had the courage to follow her convictions
The Trump effect: Canada’s politicians wearing invisible cloaks
Reading Time: 4 minutes Remember that old maxim: Silence in the face of injustice – and hate and cruelty – is complicity
Maximum disruption, promise made and promise kept
Reading Time: 3 minutes Trump adviser Steve Bannon wants precisely the kind of chaos we’re now witnessing, to bring the establishment crashing down
Trump one week in: is there more here than meets the eye?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Focus more on what Trump is doing, rather than on what he is saying, to determine exactly where this administration is going
Making America great again – with a lot of very nice walls
Reading Time: 3 minutes President Donald Trump asserts that the carnage will now stop and America will soon be great again. What a fantastic time to be alive
When a U.S. president tried to pack the Supreme Court
Reading Time: 3 minutes Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to pack the U.S. Supreme Court because it disagreed with many elements of his New Deal
Awakening the female political voice
Reading Time: 3 minutes Donald Trump may have unintentionally succeeded where many have failed – he has awoken the feminine political voice
The day the United States of America died
Reading Time: 4 minutes The United States died on Dec. 14, 2012 when a man gunned down 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School and nothing was done to stop it from happening again
Could Trumpism replace small ‘c’ conservatism?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Without Trump and the shift to “crazy” conservatism, it’s quite possible the Republicans could have been wiped out by the Democrats