Zohran Mamdani vs. the Democratic establishment
Zohran Mamdani’s win in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York is one of the most stunning upsets in the city’s political history. The 33-year-old assemblyman led a campaign focused on affordabi...
16 Jul 202526min
What Trump’s new tariff threats could mean for Canada
U.S. President Donald Trump wrote letters to over two dozen trading partners last week, threatening a fresh set of tariffs. Canada was among them and is now facing the possibility of 35% tariffs on al...
15 Jul 202527min
Politics! Carney calls for big cuts, army members' terrorism charges
To kick off the week, we tackle a few big stories in two realms of Canadian politics: the military, and the federal public service.First, the Ottawa Citizen's David Pugliese tells us about the investi...
14 Jul 202525min
Case closed on the 'Epstein list'?
Following years of speculation, this week U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi dismissed the existence of a long-rumored "Epstein client list," and reaffirmed that Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide.This come...
11 Jul 202529min
Will a 'Free Tibet' die with the Dalai Lama?
The Dalai Lama has spent almost his entire adult life as a refugee from his homeland of Tibet. Fleeing Chinese persecution in the 1950s, he has built a nation in exile, striving to preserve Tibetan cu...
10 Jul 202527min
Did the Texas floods have to be this deadly?
Search efforts continue in central Texas after extraordinary flash flooding killed more than 100 people. As the death toll rises, questions are growing about whether local, state and federal authoriti...
9 Jul 202525min
Netanyahu in Washington, and a Gaza ceasefire?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington this week, meeting with Donald Trump and senior members of the Trump administration, in a trip that could end in a Gaza ceasefire agreement e...
8 Jul 202529min
Medicaid cuts and RFK Jr’s MAHA mission
The passing of Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill last week came with over a trillion dollars of cuts to Medicaid, kicking an estimated 12 million Americans off health insurance coverage by 2034. And i...
7 Jul 202531min
