Alexander Panetta

Analysis | A polarized U.S. responds in horror after shooting with few parallels It’s a moment many have feared: violence overseas, spilling onto U.S. soil. The shocking act was reminiscent of a ghastly incident in the same city last year: […]

In one notable speech, on one memorable trip, we saw the clearest ever outline of what one might call the Trump Doctrine in foreign policy. The current U.S. president doesn’t tend to indulge in grand theory talk, but he effectively

There’s a reason Franklin D. Roosevelt’s portrait still hangs in the Oval Office, even under Donald Trump, despite his being a Democrat. FDR set the standard for a prolific presidency. Trump hasn’t actually signed any transformative laws in his first 100

All signs point to Canada and the United States holding trade negotiations in two separate phases — with some now on immediate irritants, and the rest next year. The process is still taking shape. But the two-step idea is emerging in

A just-released annual report on the global state of democracy makes for depressing reading. But what’s even more depressing is what might appear in next year’s edition. Or rather, what might not appear in the 2026 volume: an old democracy, by

After Canadian steel, aluminum, potash, energy and possibly cars, U.S. President Donald Trump may have a new target: Canada-related scholarship. A top think-tank that studies Canada-U.S. relations now finds itself under threat in an executive order signed by the president last Friday.

Evidence of Americans’ souring mood is everywhere you look. Even in the place you look for evidence: Google. An unprecedented number of Americans are now googling the word “tariff,” an issue of minimal interest to them during last year’s presidential election. There’s an

One trade war down, two to go — maybe more. U.S. President Donald Trump has dialled back his tariffs against Canada after rattling the economy from the markets, to factories, to the borders.  But that was this week’s battle. There’s

Canada can huff, and puff, but if anything’s going to blow down Donald Trump’s house of tariffs, it’s going to be the reaction within the United States. And there are signs of pushback. The stock market is turning, economic sentiment is

It would take some scrounging around the bottom of the barrel to find a historical precedent for what transpired Friday in the Oval Office. There simply aren’t good parallels. On live TV, the U.S. president argued with the leader of a