Newt Gingrich Seldom Misses A Chance To

Compared With How We've Ducked It In The United States, Canada Should Be Really Proud Of How You Have Welcomed A Significant Number Of Refugees - Far More, In Fact, Than We Americans Have, Even Though Our Population Is Vastly Larger.

In His Fierce, Bold Determination To See The Lives Of Modern-day Slaves Up Close, Benjamin Skinner Reminds Me Of The British Abolitionist Of Two Hundred Years Ago, Zachary Macaulay, Who Once Traveled On A Slave Ship Across The Atlantic, Taking Notes. Skinner Goes Everywhere, From Border Crossings To Brothels To Bargaining Sessions With Dealers In Human Beings, To Bring Us This Vivid, Searing Account Of The Wide Network Of Human Trafficking And Servitude Which Spans Today's Globe.

The First World War In So Many Ways Shaped The 20th Century And Really Remade Our World For The Worse.

One Of My Favourite Contemporary Fiction Writers Is A Texan, Ben Fountain. His Extraordinary Novel, Billy Lynn's Long Half-time Walk, All Takes Place Within The Half-time Show At A Dallas Cowboys Football Game. No One Has Better Summed Up The American Appetite For Spectacle, The Link Between Sports And Politics, And The Absolute Madness Of George W. Bush's Iraq War.

All Of Us Living In Today's World Are Facing An Enormous Crisis - Arguably The Greatest That Humanity Has Ever Faced - In The Form Of Man-made Global Warming; One Can't Be Neutral At Such A Moment. It's Like Claiming To Be Neutral If You're Living In Germany In 1933.