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Cohen: How Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is undoing his family's proud legacy

His conspiratorial candidacy is a quixotic exercise that will not win him the presidency, yet may cost Joe Biden his office.

10.04.2024 5

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Cohen

Cohen: Joe Biden will inevitably have to break with Israel's Netanyahu

After the Oct. 7 attack, the U.S. president embraced him. In the awful season since, everything has changed.

27.03.2024 5

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Cohen

Cohen: How Trump — or Biden — could win America’s longest presidential campaign

Rather than accelerating their electoral process, Americans have extended it to be nasty, brutish and long. This contest will also be the least...

13.03.2024 1

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Cohen

Cohen: Super Tuesday — no surprises, at a time when American could use a few

We are exactly where we were before: pitting an old, decent president with a strong economy and solid record against an old, indecent former president...

06.03.2024 3

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Cohen

Cohen: Is America becoming the new 'land of lies'?

Character assassination, disinformation, historical revisionism, nativism and racism ravage its democracy. Donald Trump, for one, understands them...

28.02.2024 3

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Cohen

With the warming of the Rideau Canal, we are at risk of losing another cherished winter tradition

Skaters cast shadows over the Rideau Canal this past Jan. 21, the first of a four-day window when the public could use only part of the surface this...

16.02.2024 30

The Globe and Mail

Andrew Cohen

Cohen: Joe Biden's 'memory' problems — or America's amnesia?

The U.S. was once less mean, less vulgar, less angry, more generous, kind and gracious. Here's a speech the president might like to give.

14.02.2024 3

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Cohen

Cohen: The 'normalization' of Donald Trump bodes ill for America

The woolly-minded, sycophantic voice of corporate America seems to ignore the fact that a second-term President Trump would be vengeful, dictatorial...

07.02.2024 10

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Cohen

Cohen: Netanyahu is risking the loss of his biggest, most essential ally

U.S. President Joe Biden cannot abide a war that goes on for months, led by an incompetent, messianic prime minister.

31.01.2024 5

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Cohen

Cohen: Why Nikki Haley is staying in the Republican race against Donald Trump

She’s the face of a GOP moderate — on abortion, Ukraine and Israel — who can appeal to a broader electorate in four years, when Trump won’t be...

24.01.2024 9

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Cohen

Cohen: To understand Trump's success, see the spectacular failure of Ron DeSantis

The Florida governor, despite strong conservative credentials, has run the worst presidential campaign since Hillary Clinton.

17.01.2024 8

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Cohen

Cohen: This year, America faces its most important — and perhaps perilous — election ever

To hear Trump tell it, everything is broken. The facts suggest otherwise, but as Americans go to the polls in 2024, the Emperor of Anger just doubles...

10.01.2024 7

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Cohen

Cohen: U.S. fast food is everywhere in France. Quelle horreur!

The country that gave the world eclairs and croissants just welcomed Krispy Kreme Doughnuts with open arms.

03.01.2024 4

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Cohen

Cohen: The restless, important life of John Godfrey, Canadian educator, journalist, politician

He was both a thinker and a tinkerer over his 81 years, seeking a country more just, fair, strong and progressive.

28.12.2023 9

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Cohen

Cohen: Biden impeachment inquiry aims simply to muddy the waters

Expect a political process that goes to next autumn and produces salacious but unfounded allegations.

20.12.2023 10

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Cohen

Cohen: Elizabeth Magill's lawyerly approach to discussing genocide sealed her fate

Her troubled testimony in Washington recalls what my late father called 'an educated fool': someone of high intelligence yet poor judgment.

13.12.2023 4

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Cohen

Cohen: Henry Kissinger was without scruples, conscience or regrets

To some, he was an accomplished U.S. secretary of state, the Metternich of the modern age. To others, he was a war criminal.

06.12.2023 2

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Cohen

Cohen: Nikki Haley's rise might just shake Trump's dominance

The former governor and UN ambassador must consolidate the anti-Trump vote among Republicans and convince them she can win against Joe Biden.

29.11.2023 6

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Cohen

Cohen: From JFK to RFK Jr. — the downward spiral of U.S. politics

Sixty years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, exhibitionists and egotists seem to dominate America's political institutions. In the House,...

22.11.2023 10

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Cohen

JFK’s legacy, 60 years on, is as much a reflection of us as it is of him

Andrew Cohen is the author of Two Days in June: John F. Kennedy and the 48 Hours That Made History, and a consulting producer on Kennedy, a docuseries...

22.11.2023 10

The Globe and Mail

Andrew Cohen

Cohen: Things aren't as bleak for Joe Biden as you might think

The U.S. president's popularity remains stubbornly low, despite his creditable record. But pundits, pollsters and prophets need to take a valium.

15.11.2023 10

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Cohen

Cohen: Despite Trump's disruptive attacks, America remains resilient — for now

The storm hasn't passed and things aren't normal in the U.S. But the Republic has endured the last three years. There are signs of hope.

08.11.2023 5

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Cohen

Cohen: The day mass shootings caught up with Maine

'I never thought it could happen here,' some sighed. But with easy access to guns, why not? With the dispossessed and the depressed in our midst, why...

01.11.2023 7

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Cohen

Cohen: Why Israel must wait to launch a ground attack in Gaza

What is the best way to destroy an enemy hiding amid serpentine, fortified, booby-trapped tunnels, below 2 million souls used as shields?

25.10.2023 3

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Cohen

Cohen: Joe Biden, once ignored by Netanyahu, is now Israel's hero

The U.S. president came as guardian, guarantor and consoler, amid hurt and loss. A month ago, this was unthinkable.

19.10.2023 10

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Cohen

Cohen: In seeking redress, Israel must respond judiciously

Netanyahu's government should learn from how the United States reacted to two historical disasters: the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the September 11...

11.10.2023 3

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Cohen

Cohen: Dumping the House Speaker a study in contrasts between Canada, U.S.

In Washington, Kevin McCarthy was shown the door in humiliating fashion. In Ottawa, Anthony Rota resigned appropriately and without needless...

04.10.2023 5

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Cohen

COHEN: Biden, as well as Zelenskyy, needs a win in Ukraine

There are political lessons to be gleaned from Abraham Lincoln's situation during the American Civil war. PORTLAND, Maine — In the summer of 1864,...

28.09.2023 10

Winnipeg Sun

Andrew Cohen

Cohen: Biden, as well as Zelenskyy, needs a win in Ukraine

There are political lessons to be gleaned from Abraham Lincoln's situation during the American Civil war.

27.09.2023 3

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Cohen

Cohen: Mitt Romney — a trickle of courage among U.S. Republicans

In Trump's kingdom of the coward, a little conscience makes you ruler. So it was with Romney: he brought a bit of integrity and decency.

20.09.2023 5

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Cohen

Cohen: Journalist Peter Newman was simply the best of his generation

Like Pierre Berton, Farley Mowat, June Callwood, Keith Spicer, Keith Davey, Dalton Camp and Eric Kearns, he was a serious person in a serious country,...

13.09.2023 9

Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Cohen

COHEN: Impeach Biden? Disqualify Trump? Political theatre dominates the presidential race

At their extreme, these actions would bar each man from holding public office. So far, though, they remain theoretical, improbable — yet possible. ...

07.09.2023 8

Winnipeg Sun

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