On energy and immigration, the U.S. is ending decades of mismanagement. by Conrad Black As the election year progresses, more attention will be paid to the substantial settling of two of the greatest public-policy failings in the United States since the official end of racial segregation. ...Read More...

There is a widespread aversion to the president, but his record in office is increasingly hard to dispute and his attractions as the ultimate single combat warrior are slowly growing. by Conrad Black It is not too soon to consider how to assist the millions of Trump-haters in the country in ...Read More...

The cant and emotionalism that enshrouds this final doomed effort to undo the 2016 election probably require a full trial. The public relations battle must be fought to the end. by Conrad Black As far as can be determined, the question of whether the Senate should conduct a trial or dismiss ...Read More...

by Conrad Black Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce Teachers have to stop swaddling their avarice and negligence in a fog of pious claptrap about putting the interests of the schoolchildren first The renewed agitation by teachers in Ontario highlights the debacle of the whole public ...Read More...

America’s Middle East policy has been disastrous since Ike, with the exception of the Nixon-Kissinger days. by Conrad Black President Trump entered office having promised to smash ISIS, avoid endless Middle Eastern wars, counteract terrorism, and support Israel. He has been accused of lurching ...Read More...

The corrupt and oppressive regime of the ayatollahs cannot be far from the position Nicolai Ceausescu reached in Romania in 1989 by Conrad Black A week ago, on Jan. 3, Tony Burman, a contributor to the Toronto Star and former long-time employee of the CBC and then of Al Jazeera, wrote in the ...Read More...

He’ll need cooperation from Turkey, Russia, and other regional powers. by Conrad Black The Democratic charge that the Trump administration has no strategy for the Middle East is obviously false. It has elaborated a strategy that includes Russia and Turkey. The problem the administration has ...Read More...

Do the charges against Trump pass constitutional muster? The justices should decide before the Senate does. by Conrad Black In the present overheated state of official Washington, there may be no alternative to charging into an impeachment trial whose outcome is a foregone conclusion. There ...Read More...

Democrats are trying to spin the Horowitz report as an exoneration, when in fact it is anything but. by Conrad Black It is hard to believe that the run-up to the presidential-election year has plumbed such a depth of farcical degradation. It must be that Trump’s influence has contributed to ...Read More...

In policy terms, almost every sentence of the address was a disaster by Conrad Black The throne speech in Ottawa on Dec. 5 was a thoroughly depressing occasion. The attempt at solemnity failed. The Senate chamber was much too crowded; the audience looked like humanoid sardines; too many of ...Read More...

Trump is rising in the polls and has told the haters and the disdainers alike to stuff their complaints, bring on the impeachment burlesque, and he will see his enemies on Election Day. by Conrad Black While Donald Trump’s haters intrepidly maintain there are grounds to impeach the president, ...Read More...

It was a great generation, certainly—and largely because great leaders enabled it to be so. by Conrad Black The 78th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Saturday was widely observed and brought back to public discussion the achievements of what has been called “The Greatest ...Read More...

The Democrats lost ground in the polls with the House hearings, with fewer favouring impeachment and more opposing it as the process unfolded by Conrad Black Given the almost total failure of the Canadian media to overcome their stylistic distaste for U.S. President Donald Trump, and the recently ...Read More...

With his leadership, an alliance built to contain Communism is facing the new threats created by its demise. by Conrad Black As the Democrats toil to make their impeachment effort look like something other than a partisan smear job and legal scam, President Trump is at the NATO leaders’ meeting ...Read More...

Canada would make an important contribution to the world if it proposed serious reforms to the UN, tying voting rights to respect for defined human rights by Conrad Black From all accounts, the great foreign policy effort of the semi-re-elected federal government is to win a two-year term ...Read More...