Donald Trump addressed the UN General Assembly yesterday in a speech that demonstrated several of his numerous flaws. It was delusional. It was boastful. It was incoherent. It was indecisive. It was petty. It was laced with ego. In short, it was an embarrassment on the global stage for both the man and the country…

Donald Trump is in New York City right now, but one would be hard pressed to show proof of it. The White House Press Corps is boycotting his trip because he has banned Politico, CNN and MS Now from the White House. The rest of the media has stood with them, not doing the usual…

Yesterday, the German lander of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and of Berlin went to the polls to elect regional parliaments. In the former, the neo-Nazi Alternativ fur Deutscheland finished in first place, but the AfD failed to secure a majority. In the latter, the Left Party (the odds and sods aligned with the former communists) finished first.…

The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee meeting yesterday resulted in the Fed raising US interest rates by 0.25%, 25 basis points as bond traders say. This was the direct result of inflation that has risen since Donald Trump took office, when the rate was 3%. Drivers of this inflation are the war in Iran, tariffs…

Canada has received an invitation from the EU to join the body as an associate member. Precisely what that means has yet to be defined, and it will probably involve long and detailed negotiations. But it does make one thing perfectly clear. The United States has damaged its relationship with Canada so badly that the…