Archive for April 2026

Three cheers for 3 byelections in Canada (and the end of Viktor Orbán in Hungary)

Apr 15th, 2026 | By | Category: In Brief

RANDALL WHITE, TORONTO. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2026. Two key current political events — one international and the other national — have helped cheer up we progressive voters on the north shore of Lake Ontario (most easterly of the North American Great Lakes). The international event is of course the April 12, 2026 election in Hungary. […]



Bill Clinton’s labor secretary says “Trump has really, seriously, frighteningly lost his mind” — and he’s right .. (even if things are at least better in PM Carney’s Canada)

Apr 8th, 2026 | By | Category: In Brief

RANDALL WHITE, NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK, TORONTO. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2026. Robert Reich, Democratic President Clinton’s secretary of labor, 1993–1997 and retired UC Berkeley professor, is far from the only eminent US commentator who has been raising deeply serious questions about President Trump’s mental health in the early spring of 2026. Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNOW, as […]