There is a cliché that history is written by the winners, but an argument can be made that history is written by the writers.
democracy
June 9, 2016
3:00AM
There are parallels between American presidential politics and the HBO series Game of Thrones.
April 1, 2016
3:00AM
Part of being free is being free not to participate in the democratic process if you don’t want to.
December 14, 2015
9:58AM
The Myanmar miracle marches on, but don’t stop holding your breath. Great hazards are emerging ahead.
October 16, 2015
4:00AM
If your attention or information level is so low that you must be reminded what a treasure your democratic birthright is, maybe we don’t actually want you voting.
February 7, 2015
10:00AM
In a recent column from a Toronto journalist on communism and capitalism, the writer made an astonishing claim: While “millions have been the tragic victims of communism,” he wrote, “that number pales, surely, in comparison with the victims of capitalism.”
January 3, 2015
3:00PM
The pre-Christmas announcement by President Obama that the United States would re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba will reignite a number of debates. One will be about the cause of Cuban poverty over the past 56 years.
January 3, 2015
10:00AM
International talks often become forums of mutual incomprehension as the world again breaks into two opposing camps with two incompatible worldviews: “the democracies” and “the rest.”
October 14, 2014
6:00AM
As pro-democracy demonstrations flare across Hong Kong, it continues to rank first in the world in economic freedom. Hong Kong has been at the top since 1970, according to the just-released Fraser Institute Economic Freedom of the world index, a collaborative effort of more than 100 research groups in 90 nations and territories. The 2014 report is based on 2012 data, the most recent available.
April 21, 2014
9:00AM
The concept of “democracy” is important to many Canadians. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has received awards identifying him as a “champion of democracy, freedom and human rights” and the government has frequently spoken out against democratic violations in other countries.