Politics

As the government gives six local authorities permission to raise the tax by up to 10 per cent, Sean O’Grady looks at the reasons behind the decision

China will also levy 10% higher duties on American crude oil, farm equipment and certain cars and trucks.

“It’s a drop in the bucket,” an Ontario business owner said. “But it’s the only thing we can do.”

President Trump’s sweeping spending freeze on U.S. foreign aid has immediate health consequences, writes Gavin Yamey.

In fiscal year 2023, USAID provided assistance to approximately 130 countries.

The Trump administration has made the U.S. Agency for International Development, a decades-old organization responsible for carrying out foreign aid programs around the world, a top target in its campaign to remake the federal government.

Progressive philanthropy lacks good strategy, so too many of our organizations are hollow—and that left us unable to prevent a second Trump term. In the wake of Trump’s re-election, many of us on the progressive left are reevaluating our work.

No one knows if the Supreme Court will enforce the law against Trump. Much of what Donald Trump has done in his first eight days back in the White House is legally unjustifiable. What’s uncertain is whether the Supreme Court will do anything to stop him.

The events of 2024 shifted the balance of power in the Middle East—and inside Iran. The Iranian presidency seems to be a cursed position. Of the eight men who have held it before the current president, five eventually found themselves politically marginalized after their term finished.

Amid all the noise, an eerie hush is spreading across America. Companies, scientific researchers and Trump critics are clamming up as the MAGA movement ushers in a new era of government censorship.