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Economy and ecology

Carbon pricing: the Canadian experience

Despite mitigating climate change and fostering innovation, carbon pricing is under attack in Canada

By Isabelle Turcotte

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Using tariffs to punish migrants

Trump attacks immigration and aggravates its causes. But Mexico’s humanitarian approach has also failed

By Sandra Weiss

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The US: An ‘Empire in Retreat’

In his new book, Victor Bulmer-Thomas argues that the US needs to accept its imperial decline and reinvent itself

By Paul Hockenos

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Julian Assange and the war on whistleblowers

Some US journalists deny Assange the free speech protection they enjoy. But shouldn't their sources also be entitled to it?

By Edward Wasserman

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Singh in the rain

Jagmeet Singh has disappointed as the leader of Canada’s social democrats. What the left should learn from this

By Michael Petrou

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Trudeau in trouble

Once certain to be re-elected, Canada’s Prime Minister Trudeau is now mired in a corruption scandal

By Raoul Gebert

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The answer is blowin’ in the wind

The Green New Deal has many good ideas — maybe even too many. For starters, the US Dems could just talk about ... wind!

By Gail Collins

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Interviews

The Bern is back!

Knut Dethlefsen on how Bernie Sanders’ second candidacy for US President demonstrates the leftward shift of the Democratic Party

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'America is made stronger by immigrants – not walls'

US Democrat Stacey Abrams responds to Trump's State of the Union speech

By Stacey Abrams

Videos

Trump has made journalists more determined

American journalist Anya Schiffrin on the US media landscape, Facebook and US President Donald Trump

By Anya Schiffrin Shiffrin