Mark Carney is quite the leader. Frustrated by U.S. demands for participation in a North American trading block, which would purportedly sacrifice too much of Canada's sovereign right to make its own decisions about trading relationships, Carney is pivoting instead to... joining the EU? Perhaps he is not familiar with the premise of the EU, and is just hoping to skip passport control on his frequent jaunts across the pond?
Cutting off countries that export more to us than they import would mean ending trade with 95 countries and territories: China, Taiwan, South Korea, Israel - even Burundi.
For the better part of a decade, progressive Democrats have desperately sought to recruit working-class candidates able to win back a crucial constituency: blue-collar voters, particularly men.
An old saying suggests that the road to the White House runs through Ohio. For more than 125 years, the Buckeye State has served as the nation's bellwether. More recently many Midwestern states-not only Ohio, but also Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Minnesota-have turned either ruby red or navy blue. That polarization has hit a tipping point.
