A former Department of Defense and State Department official explains why a hardline approach on North Korea will likely fail, as it did with Iran.
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Media pundits are promoting Canada as exceptional in its tolerance and diversity but the truth is, Canadians have a tendency not to be not less racist than Americans, but to be less loud about it.
Robert E. Lee is one of the most memorialised figures of the American civil war. Here’s why that causes so much anger.
In international relations, words matter – and so does the credibility of the speaker.
Having stoked white resentment for his own benefit throughout his campaign, Trump is still emboldening it.
The US wants rid of NAFTA’s dispute settlement mechanism but for Canada it’s a red line issue.
The international community has been trying to stop North Korea from developing long-range missiles for decades. So how did North Korea get them?
Climate scientist Mark Maslin interviewed the former US vice-president about his new film, An Inconvenient Sequel.
A week ago, the leaked transcript of the January telephone call between Malcolm Turnbull and Donald Trump revealed Turnbull had told the president, “You can count on me. I will be there again and again…
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has dealt Australia into the argument over how to respond to North Korea’s brinkmanship over its nuclear weapons program. Speaking on Melbourne radio on Friday morning Turnbull…
Ambivalence among voters is reason to think about how democracy is working for us as a community. To keep democracy alive we need to be sceptical about the exercise of power and keep it in check.
Data show that many people who consider themselves ‘global citizens’ also harbor strong national sentiments. The two aren’t mutually exclusive.
Mexico has traditionally been NAFTA’s biggest loser. But Canada is at risk if the U.S. gets its way in removing a dispute settlement mechanism from the deal in the upcoming NAFTA renegotiations.
The issue with Donald Trump’s ad-hoc response and commentary on North Korea is the inconsistent messages this sends to an already paranoid and isolated regime.
Totalitarian countries have many spokespeople, but they speak with a single voice. That’s a big propaganda advantage.
The most viable nonmilitary solution to the standoff with North Korea is to get China to apply pressure. But that’s not so easy.
Eloquent Obama and bombastic Trump certainly have different speaking styles. But a big data analysis of their speeches also shows a surprising commonality.
But everyone gets fired in the end.
Artificial intelligence now plays as big a role in election campaigns as traditional campaign tactics.
A scholar argues why more rules, regulations and codes, such as those proposed by Walter Shaub, will not have much effect.
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