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Basic income: a done deal?
The First World War speeded up the emancipation of women; the Second World War led to the creation of welfare states in all the industrialized…
The fantasy life of Jordan Goudreau
It’s hard being born Canadian if your ambition is to be a real-life version of movie tough guy Jean-Claude Van Damme (Blood Sport, Death Warrant,…
Trump and the yellow peril
It was completely predictable that Donald Trump would try to blame China for the fact that at least 30 million Americans are unemployed and that…
COVID-19 death rates and arrogance
Something has gone wrong in the ‘Anglosphere,’ as the English-speaking countries are known in some other parts of the world. Smaller English-speaking countries are coping…
Fauci must go on to counter Trump
Is it time for Dr. Anthony Fauci to quit? Brazil’s health minister, Luiz Mandetta, was fired last week for criticizing the country’s mini-Trump, Jair Bolsonaro.…
A delay, then swift justice in Bangladesh
The murders happened 45 years ago, and what remains of the family has been seeking vengeance ever since. One of the killers was caught a…
From lockdown to whack-a-mole
It’s wrong to say that there is no exit strategy from the anti-coronavirus lockdowns that have proliferated across the world. There is, and the first…
Saving the old over the economy
The basic choice all along with COVID-19 has been: do we let the old die, or do we take a big hit economically? So far,…
Current plague will bring some changes
They teach you in journalism school never to use the phrase “...X has changed the world forever.” Or at least they should. Covid-19 is certainly…
Playing a game of British Roulette
“I must level with the British public: many more families are going to lose their loved ones before their time.” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson,…
