The heavy footprint of climate change can be seen everywhere
Imagine drilling into the accumulated layers of ice on Mount Logan, the highest peak in…
Tim Hortons rolling up the rim to win over China
Tim Hortons is going where the growth is: China. The Canadian institution announced it will…
Meddling in other countries’ elections isn’t always outrageous
You’d have to be living in a cave to be unaware of the controversy over…
We don’t want to go where trade wars have taken us before
President Donald Trump has unveiled a long list of punishing tariffs that will affect everyone.…
What fate awaits our treasured monarchy?
The recent marriage of Prince Harry to an American divorcée and the declining vigour of…
What if Bobby Kennedy had lived?
Coincident with the 50th anniversary of U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s murder, I wrote a…
America’s Gulliver complex casts us all as petty Lilliputians
For many Americans, blowing up the global status quo is seen as a necessary precondition…
Championing the human spirit in dispiriting times
More and more, Newton’s third law makes sense in my volunteer life: For every action…
‘Happy’ New Zealand has a teenage suicide problem
The United Nations consistently includes New Zealand in its list of the happiest countries on…
The man who cheated death again and again
He’s a forgotten figure now but there was a time when anyone following the news…