Out of the closet, slowly and cautiously
Britain’s 1957 Wolfenden Report was the first step towards changing legal and social perspectives on homosexuality in the English-speaking world…
Chicago, Chicago: how 1968’s unrest is still making waves
Almost 50 years on, the American electoral system is still trying to come to terms with what happened at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago…
Comedians’ punch lines about Trump falling flat
The laughter may have subsided because many American voters are beginning to feel that they, and not Trump, are the true butts of the joke…
Crossroads: the growing Republican divide
Rather than a positive endorsement of their world view, Republican electoral success comes down to a simple rejection of the Democrats…
Punk queen Exene Cervenka embraces Trump
Exene Cervenka of X embodies a growing constituency in the United States which believes nothing emanating from government or the media is true…
Irish Civil War left long memories and bitter divisions
Ninety years ago this month Irish cabinet minister Kevin O'Higgins was assassinated as payback for his role in the Irish Civil War that ended four years earlier…
West complicit in North Korea’s 21st-century slave trade
Hundreds of thousands of World Cup soccer fans will buy tickets to sit in stadiums being built in Russia and Qatar with slave labour…
O.J. Simpson’s legacy of perverse justice
With his imminent release in October, one wonders if O.J. Simpson will resume his search for the “real killers” of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman…
A grand Trump strategy at work? Don’t count on it
Trump Jr. has now handed Robert Mueller, the special counsel probing all of this Trump-Russia stuff, the proverbial smoking gun…
The national shame of paying a convicted terrorist
How many dead U.S. soldiers would it take before the Liberal government would balk at lining the pockets of the man who killed them? What if they were Canadian?…