Tag Archives: United States

Guest post: Natasha Tusikov on why Canada needs to rethink its regulatory dependence on the US

Posted on August 28, 2025 by bhaggart

For all of Mark Carney’s talk about how Canada needs to reduce its reliance on the United States, he’s been conspicuously silent on the governance links that create and maintain our interdependence. Regulatory cooperation, as Natasha highlights, is a big part of these links. We need to start taking it seriously. That starts with coming up with a plan to deal with the fallout of the U.S. evisceration of its domestic regulatory frameworks. Continue reading →

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Jonathan Kirshner: On the rise of Trump, and the irreversible damage done

Posted on January 17, 2017 by bhaggart

Great article by Jonathan Kirshner in the LA Review of Books, as we begin the countdown to the end of the post-World War II world. On the question of, How Trump? Kirshner argues that economic inequality and a rigged system … Continue reading →

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Torture, US democracy and the rule of law

Posted on December 11, 2014 by bhaggart

I’m trying to think through the obscenity of the US torture program, and my fears about what the Obama Administration’s non-response tells us about the health of the US democracy. After all the terrible things I read yesterday, I was … Continue reading →

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