At a recent town hall meeting in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took a tough question about Canada’s immigration policies. Trudeau’s low-key
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Trump delays farm-water testing. Americans get E. Coli
Donald Trump is making us sick—and I mean that literally. Some food experts are claiming that the recent outbreak of E.Coli contamination in Romaine
PEN writers’ group sues Trump over abuse of First Amendment
The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
A New Deal for US foreign policy
Instead of grieving for the past, or focusing on whether world leaders laughed at or with President Trump at the United Nations, grassroots progressives
I Know the Identity of the anonymous Op-Ed writer
The last editorial I wrote for Occasional Planet was on the dangers of a potential post-Trump “unity government”. Consisting of centrists and ostensibly anti-Trump
Shocked, shocked to hear that Trump is unfit
About that “shocking,” anonymous op-ed in the New York Times: What I find most amazing about all this talk about how the president is
Top Trump official publishes devastating op-ed in New York Times [anonymously]
The New York Times took the rare step, today, of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay. The author, an unnamed, senior White House official, delivers
De-naturalization: Trump’s latest weapon in the war on immigrants
The Trump administration is employing a new weapon in its war on immigrants: de-naturalization. Yes, that’s a real word. It’s exactly what it sounds
Hard to tell where the pendulum of normalcy will swing next
After Barack Obama was elected, it seemed that America had a new normalcy, one that some described as “post-racial.” For any who took that
The latest assault on ACA [Obamacare]: DOJ won’t defend it in court
In a dramatic break from a long-standing norm of defending federal laws, Attorney General Jeff Session has announced that the Department of Justice will