"That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event To which the whole creation moves.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) When American colonists were oppressed by British monarchs, the word most frequently uttered in pamphlets, ...

The federal budget remains a disaster, and for all the splashy talk of cost-cutting and tariff-driven revenue, Americans know it. Especially galling is that the latest fiscal wreckage is being overseen by an administration that promised business acumen and conservative restraint. Republicans ...

I’ve been back on Canada’s west coast for roughly five minutes, and already I’m trapped in the same boomer-induced fever dream that haunts American airports and Whole Foods checkout lines. It’s just endless, unsolicited Trump rants. How many times do innocent people minding their own ...

It has been hard this past week, of tariffs applied worldwide on April 2 to tariffs suspended except for China on April 9, to avoid reflecting on how much trouble could have been avoided if economists, instead of talking about countries’ trade surpluses and trade deficits, had devised ...

April 18 is National Columnists Day. Because of this, I want to hold space for the writer in all of us. Don’t believe we are all writers? Just look at social media. Gone are the days when opinions were sequestered to dinner tables or written in letters to the editor. Public opinions are no ...

What is it about politicians in Washington that they just can’t stand progress or the thought of anyone getting rich? That’s the attitude of many Democrats in Congress as they try to cripple the private equity and venture capital industries with higher tax rates. These financers are some ...