Shannon Gormley

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Chrystia Freeland talks tough about Trump. Here’s why Mark Carney’s strategy is even riskier

Chrystia Freeland talks tough about Trump. Here’s why Mark Carney’s strategy is even riskier

Back in a simpler time, whole days before the United States declared itself a hostile power to its closest ally and threw world markets into disarray only to extract promises that had already been made to increase security on the safest border on Earth, two Canadians announced they were running for the federal Liberal leadership. By the conclusion of the...

Dancing with a puppy killer, peddling Trump merchandise and threatening other countries. Here’s a play-by-play of Donald Trump’s 100 days before inauguration

Dancing with a puppy killer, peddling Trump merchandise and threatening other countries. Here’s a play-by-play of Donald Trump’s 100 days before inauguration

“Believe what they do, not what they say”: this is the advice given by sages everywhere. Still, we should listen to what, over the past 100 days, President-elect Donald Trump has said he will do in the next 100. For although he is a liar, his lies are so wholly comprehensive — so totalizing — that it seems as if...

Canada’s fake feminist prime minister is running out of women to use as props

Canada’s fake feminist prime minister is running out of women to use as props

Eventually, every woman must learn that being nice to an egomaniacal bulls—t artist won’t long protect her from him. It’s too bad Chrystia Freeland had to learn this lesson twice. Last week, Trump learned that he wouldn’t be able to insult Freeland at the negotiating table anymore, so he insulted her online. Amateur. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insulted her in...

Donald Trump and Barack Obama agree on this one thing. They’re both catastrophically wrong

Donald Trump and Barack Obama agree on this one thing. They’re both catastrophically wrong

“Syria is not our problem.” So declared the world’s biggest problem, Donald Trump, seven years ago. “This is not our fight,” he reiterated last week, after Syria’s fourteen-year civil war had changed the course of world history. On Sunday, a Syrian dynasty’s half-century murderous rule ended when the latest, and hopefully last, Assad dictator fled to Russia. Bashar al-Assad’s new...

Donald Trump was always dangerous. His proposed cabinet may burn America to the ground

Donald Trump was always dangerous. His proposed cabinet may burn America to the ground

If only it were just that the President-Elect of the United States is an avowed racist, a proven rapist, and a de facto Russian asset who calls for the use of force against migrants, women, sovereign states, political opponents, and critics. If only, that is, the problem was just him. But it isn’t. He’s bringing friends.

The world’s most dangerous regimes now have a friend in the White House

The world’s most dangerous regimes now have a friend in the White House

This week the leader of the free world elected to stop being free. How, then, can it lead? The United States of America has inaugurated fascism through a free vote. But the fact of its freely choosing fascism does not make America more free—it makes it typical. Almost all fascists attain power through legal means. Then they do away with...

If America votes in a fascist this week, the whole world should worry

If America votes in a fascist this week, the whole world should worry

Just a few days from now, while two major nuclear powers wage war in Europe and the Middle East and a third threatens war in Asia, the world’s strongest democracy may elect to become a fascist state. Many people recognize that this is a dangerous time for the world; many others understand that Donald Trump is a dangerous man for...