What was Ruth Bader Ginsburg thinking in criticizing Donald Trump?
By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) — What was RBG thinking? U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg launched a broadside against Republican presidential nominee Donald…
Politics
Turkey, Egypt, Africa: How ‘hard-liner’ Netanyahu pulled off a diplomacy trifecta
By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) – The conventional wisdom has it that earning the sobriquet “the most right-wing government in Israeli history” does not lead…
op/ed: Raising the minimum wage will help hard working Albertans
by David Shepherd, MLA Edmonton-Centre (July 7, 2016) – Sometimes when I talk to people, they’re surprised at the number of different jobs I held…
Blog: Why not Al Franken? Some think the senator and former comic could be Hillary’s VP
By Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — Last week Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) said that if Hillary Clinton asked him to be her running mate, he’d take…
Brexit splits UK from Europe and Labour from its party leader
By Cnaan Liphshiz JTA) — Only a week ago, Jeremy Corbyn seemed to have survived his biggest public relations debacle as the leader of Britain’s…