Things have changed since the pro-democracy revolutions of post-Soviet eastern Europe, in part because of another revolution altogether—the Fourth Industrial one.

The man likely to be Ukraine’s new president is a comedian who played the president of Ukraine in a Netflix series. This could be just the casting breakthrough we need.

Political actors are now being cast, scripted, and rewarded to perform in engineered narratives as a means to an end. Really.

Donald Trump’s obliteration of political norms has made plausible the anointment of an erstwhile hacker, punk rocker, and manny as his potential successor. Try not to be judgy.

While elections in Israel are never boring, the results are certainly getting a little predictable.

At a time when we should be connecting to produce sums greater than our parts, examples of just such moments stand out amid the divisions.

As the completely avoidable and largely contrived brink of cataclysm looms, Prime Minister Theresa May should think outside the Brexit bollocks box and consider telling the truth.

Civilization seems to be living through another moment when the benefit of the doubt is being exploited as a weakness by corrupt actors.

With our brains cyberconditioned to abandon discernment, we're losing the political survival mechanisms of shock and perspective.

As the cost-benefit results of China's geopolitical rise clarify daily, the most alarming thing may be America's alarm.

The disruptive lunacy of the American president has amplified the appeal of anyone who doesn’t look, sound, and act like him. That’s excellent news for women.

Amid the current festival of previously unthinkable geopolitical squabbles, the battle for Canada's roadside moose-statue supremacy is one we can all get behind.

The infatuated president’s passion for Putin couldn’t have been more obvious if he’d humped the diminutive dictator’s leg and belted out the Russian national anthem during their Helsinki newser.

As we embark on a year in which the state of electioneering will be a barometer for democracy, there are questions bigger than the horse race.

Special counsel Robert Mueller may well solve America’s leadership crisis. If he doesn’t, the Democrats won’t just need someone who can win the presidency. They’ll need someone who can’t lose.

As the world’s democratic and non-democratic tectonic plates continue to grind, the perpetual content feed is the new battlefield.

The patriarch of America’s Republican political dynasty defined leadership as duty, honour, country. His death is a reminder of how much character counts.

The visionary former Colorado Senator whose bid for the presidency was derailed in 1987 wasn’t so much an early political casualty of celebrity journalism as he was an early content provider.

While the entirely avoidable chaos unfolding in Western democracies sucks up all the oxygen, something important is happening in one of China’s purchased pearls.

This week’s midterm-results recount is déjà vu for some observers of the state’s 2000 presidential-election recount. As one political aide who was there recounts: ‘PTSD. Thank you.’

In the face of post-truth fatigue and an untimely deadline, here’s a pre-news piece filed from a rational parallel universe.

Britain’s first Brexit referendum was, by Canadian standards, deeply unserious. Now, it’s squeaky bum time.

In the global war on democracy, the war zone has no borders and journalists are no longer seen as non-combatants.

Maybe vicarious space travel is the perfect escape from our current planetary unpleasantness.