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Letters to the Editor Dear Sir, It has been clear to me for a long time that the manipulation of the ideals of the democratic system could easily lead to the entrenchment of dictatorial ideals that over time would slowly strip away our hard-fought ci...

When Brandt Jean offered forgiveness, then a hug, to the former police officer who walked into his brother’s apartment and fatally shot him, the gesture revealed a societal split. Some saw it as a powerful show of grace. Others saw it as a disappoint...

The results are in. The Trump tax cuts resulted in most families saving so little that majorities continue to insist they see no difference in their paycheques. But one very small group made out spectacularly. According to figures put together by eco...

If parts of Judge Allison Burroughs’s decision in the Harvard affirmative-action case don’t seem to make sense, it’s not entirely her fault. She was bound by the Supreme Court’s precedents on the subject, and the justices have been refining absurdity...

President Donald Trump’s smear campaign against former vice-president Joe Biden — a campaign that sought to enlist Ukrainian officials by threatening to withhold security assistance vital to Ukraine’s defence against Russian aggression — is based on ...

Each year the complaints start to trickle in from friends and co-workers right around the second week of school: “Little Johnny has so much homework. In first grade! He’s exhausted already.” “I spend all of my free time after work trying to help my ...

Boris Johnson’s new Brexit proposal has gotten such a chilly reception in Europe that some people think it must have been designed to be rejected: Johnson is less interested in getting a deal, on this theory, than in deflecting blame for the inevitab...

When the story of the probable impeachment and perhaps removal of President Donald Trump is written, Thursday, October 3, is going to be one of the big days. It started off with the President publicly asking China and Ukraine to dig up, or perhaps ma...

“The European Chemicals agency estimates there are more than 144,000 man-made chemicals in existence. The US Department of Health estimates 2,000 new chemicals are being released every year. The UN Environment Programme warns most of these have never...

Revelations about Boris Johnson’s personal life, when they periodically emerge, have tended mainly to serve as tabloid fodder for a few days and then flame out. Two recent allegations, however, could prove much harder for the Prime Minister to simply...