It’s hard to imagine a less plausible venue for the annual UN-sponsored conference on climate than Azerbaijan. Baku, the capital, has a walled medieval centre that’s worth a day or two, but offshore, the shallow Caspian Sea is littered with a century’s worth of old and new oil wells. Read More
The Roman empire survived for four centuries despite having many rulers worse than Donald Trump (e.g. Caligula, Nero and Commodus), so we should not write off the United States just yet. Read More
Donald Trump knows he could lose the U.S. election in two weeks’ time and he thinks he knows why. “You have one issue, you have the issue of abortion,” he said recently on Fox and Friends. “Without abortion, women love me.” Read More
Changing the channel is a pretty familiar gambit. Predictable, even. When a public figure lands in the hot seat, expect them to schedule a funding announcement, unveil a big new plan or identify a threat; anything to change focus. Read More
The Harris honeymoon is riding the wave of a "brat summer"; fancams on TikTok are promoting "project coconut"; and the over-30 crowd is just trying to keep up without sounding too cringe. Read More
Almost everybody who feels obliged to comment about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump is insisting that ‘violence has no place in American politics’, but of course it has. Read More
The U.S. Supreme Court term ended Monday with a bang that drowned out Canada Day fireworks, and left observers on both sides of the border in a state of concussive disorientation. To help navigate the dissonance, I have compiled some useful definitions. Read More