Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s much-marketed speech in Cairo was rich in straw man fallacies while short on substantive specifics, a speech bursting with contradictions that reminded me just how hard it must be to speak for a president who has, at best, an incoherent foreign policy. Pompeo’s speech appeared to have three intended audiences, […]

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music, wrote Keats. If uproar is indeed playing out in a discordant global symphony, then Donald Trump appears to be its principal conductor. Opponents’ attempts to wrest the baton from him have so far come to naught. Yet the scale of recent revelations suggests he […]

When we march tomorrow, we are marching with refugees who are running from persecution, and to ensure what they are fleeing from is not part of what they are fleeing to – more refugee gulags under the guise of direct provision centres. We are also marching against Minister for Justice and Equality Charles Flanagan and […]

Donald Trump committed an impeachable offense on that call with the Ukrainian president. But that doesn’t mean Democrats are right to start an impeachment process. Remember, impeachment is a political process, not a legal one. There is no obligation to prosecute. Congress is supposed to do what is in the best interest of the country. […]

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Delta Air Lines (DAL.N) on Thursday announced a deal to buy a 20% stake in LATAM Airlines Group (LTM.SN) for $1.9 billion, creating a major new airline partnership and shaking up the Chilean carrier’s longtime ties with American Airlines. The surprise deal, which Delta will fund with newly issued debt and available […]

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican conglomerate Femsa (FEMSAUBD.MX) said on Thursday it had signed a non-binding agreement to acquire a minority stake in U.S. cash-and-carry retailer Jetro Restaurant Depot, adding to recent investments by Mexican firms abroad. Investment in Mexico has been unsettled by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who took office in December pledging […]

Dogs are typically known as man’s best friend, but the man who bred the first Labradoodle thinks he created a Frankenstein. Wally Conron created the first hypoallergenic Labrador-poodle crossover while working for Guide Dogs Victoria in Australia. It was a thoughtful innovation for a blind woman whose husband was allergic to dog hair. “Why people […]

It has been a week since the story broke of three sets of images showing Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau in various forms of blackface or brownface. The latest dates from 2001, when Trudeau was 29, and shows him at a theme night at an elite private Vancouver school where he was a teacher. It has been […]

Empires collapse when they overreach. The imperial presidency is no different. It has long been disdainful of Congress, but now, under the Trump administration, it is reaching a peak of contempt for it. Even so, President Trump’s recent aggrandizement of the executive branch may have the ironic and salutary effect of shrinking the power of […]

There are weeks when so much is happening that settling on a single topic to write about becomes impossible. This is one such week. Today’s column considers three questions thrown up by developments over recent days. Is a no-deal Brexit less likely? Britain’s Supreme Court decision on Tuesday, which found against Boris Johnson’s suspension of […]