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Andrew CohenThe Globe and Mail |
His conspiratorial candidacy is a quixotic exercise that will not win him the presidency, yet may cost Joe Biden his office.
After the Oct. 7 attack, the U.S. president embraced him. In the awful season since, everything has changed.
Rather than accelerating their electoral process, Americans have extended it to be nasty, brutish and long. This contest will also be the least...
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...
Character assassination, disinformation, historical revisionism, nativism and racism ravage its democracy. Donald Trump, for one, understands them...
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...
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.
The woolly-minded, sycophantic voice of corporate America seems to ignore the fact that a second-term President Trump would be vengeful, dictatorial...
U.S. President Joe Biden cannot abide a war that goes on for months, led by an incompetent, messianic prime minister.
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...
The Florida governor, despite strong conservative credentials, has run the worst presidential campaign since Hillary Clinton.
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...
The country that gave the world eclairs and croissants just welcomed Krispy Kreme Doughnuts with open arms.
He was both a thinker and a tinkerer over his 81 years, seeking a country more just, fair, strong and progressive.
Expect a political process that goes to next autumn and produces salacious but unfounded allegations.
Her troubled testimony in Washington recalls what my late father called 'an educated fool': someone of high intelligence yet poor judgment.
To some, he was an accomplished U.S. secretary of state, the Metternich of the modern age. To others, he was a war criminal.
The former governor and UN ambassador must consolidate the anti-Trump vote among Republicans and convince them she can win against Joe Biden.
Sixty years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, exhibitionists and egotists seem to dominate America's political institutions. In the House,...
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...
The U.S. president's popularity remains stubbornly low, despite his creditable record. But pundits, pollsters and prophets need to take a valium.
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.
'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...
What is the best way to destroy an enemy hiding amid serpentine, fortified, booby-trapped tunnels, below 2 million souls used as shields?
The U.S. president came as guardian, guarantor and consoler, amid hurt and loss. A month ago, this was unthinkable.
Netanyahu's government should learn from how the United States reacted to two historical disasters: the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the September 11...
In Washington, Kevin McCarthy was shown the door in humiliating fashion. In Ottawa, Anthony Rota resigned appropriately and without needless...
There are political lessons to be gleaned from Abraham Lincoln's situation during the American Civil war. PORTLAND, Maine — In the summer of 1864,...
There are political lessons to be gleaned from Abraham Lincoln's situation during the American Civil war.
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.
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,...
At their extreme, these actions would bar each man from holding public office. So far, though, they remain theoretical, improbable — yet possible. ...