Politics and its Discontents

The world may need more Canada, but it also needs more Elizabeth Warren. A tireless defender of the unrepresented, i.e., the majority of Ame...

Recently, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, a woman I much admire, released a five-minute video that takes aim at the Trans Pacific Partnership...

I readily admit to not following U.S. politics too closely; my emotional resilience has limits. However, given the American media saturati...

Start at about the 2:40 mark, and you'll see how she does it:

In addressing a recent convention of the AFL-CIO, outspoken U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, about whom I have posted several times , offered ...

Although she is not one of ours, Democratic Senator Elizabethan Warren is one of those rare politicans who commands respect. Calm, even unf...

With each story that I read about her, my respect for Elizabeth Warren grows. Would that Canada had someone similar to inspire us.

Earlier today, Owen at Northern Reflections, commenting on a piece by Joseph Stiglitz, wrote a post on student debt, a scourge on both sid...

Oh, how I do love it when the rhetoric of the right-wing is exposed for what it is: hysterical hyperbole. Watch Robert Reich first as he ...

Emboldened and enraged by the demagogic politics that substitute for reasoned discussion in the United States, an unemployed man is shown mi...

Democratic Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren speaks on the topic of fair taxation: