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.

The focus on what can be proven or not about what happened to Christine Blasey Ford obscures the fact that Brett Kavanaugh has now, ironically enough, made it all about him.

Social media has supplanted the news cycle with the drama cycle and divided politicians into those who feed it and those who don’t.

The financial meltdown revealed the gap between numbers and reality, and between the tech masters who increasingly dominate the economy and the people whose lives they impact.

Between Bob Woodward’s forensic reconstruction of meetings that read like a cross between Dr. Strangelove, Being There and Pee Wee’s Playhouse and the recent anonymous op-ed in The New York Times that, evidently, aimed to reassure the world that there are patriotic embeds in the White House running interference between the president and potentially apocalyptic executive functions, a portrait isn’t really emerging.

While strong economic numbers are helping to keep a cataclysmic American president in office, Philippe Couillard isn’t getting the same popularity dividend.

Donald Trump has taken the North American Free Trade Agreement hostage to force outcomes that will benefit neither Americans nor Canadians.

The late U.S. Senator John McCain's life offers a reminder that there are exceptions to the usual power profile.

When attempting to untangle the perpetual schmoz of Trumpmania, it helps to spend time in the WWE glossary.