Rick Salutin

It’s part of the ideology of the Strong Leader. This feature belonged pre-eminently to the 1920s and '30s and the rise of fascism. Nothing embodied the irresistibility of the Fuhrer

Political stupidity is hard to overstate in the U.S., but we too have our versions of red-baiting and name-calling, even if they’re more genteel. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh will face

Rogers may be the most hated entity in Canada, as railways and banks once were on the Prairies, or phone monopolies in the old days.

Arab-American voters in Michigan are the most sophisticated voting bloc in the U.S., writes Rick Salutin.

Republicans under Trump have managed to denounce the neo-liberal package they first begat, the Democrats never did. Even a mea culpa, a "sorry, we got that wrong," would’ve helped.

Only Trump saw the crisis facing struggling Americans and offered a solution, albeit a vile one likely to fail. At least he got the issue right.

Death existed before modern medicine, and it had to be dealt with in existential and spiritual ways as well as practically.

By being so relentlessly, specifically Jewish and simultaneously so riven, Rubinek produced something truly universal, writes Rick Salutin.

Journalists, I’d say, live less with FOMO (fear of missing out) than FONH (fear of nothing happening). They want to be covering history’s fulcrum, not those nothing years. So they’re

If the U.S. is not worse than other imperial powers, it’s certainly not better. But it’s frequently worse.