| Jan 31, 2024 | Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyIn the 1980s, many Texans were alarmed that hordes of immigrants were fleeing Rust Belt states and pouring across the Red River to take our jobs. So my friend Steve Fromholz recommended a big beautiful wall across our northern border to keep them out. Fromholz, a...
| Jun 28, 2023 | Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedNot long ago, I couldn’t step outside my home without pulling on my KN95 mask. As smoke from wildfires in Canada sweeps in waves across the U.S., tens of millions of Americans from the East Coast to the Midwest find themselves living under severe air quality...
| Aug 27, 2019 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWe Americans tend not to pay much attention to our northern neighbors. Often, entire election cycles can come and go without anyone running for national office saying anything about Canada. But that’s changing. Canada now looms much larger in our politics, mainly...
| Jul 24, 2019 | Economy / Business|Environment / HealthWhile Donald Trump fans the embers of xenophobia in our country by demonizing caravans of desperate Central Americans headed north, there are other northern-bound caravans he doesn’t mention. These are U.S. citizens crossing our northern border into Canada,...
| Nov 1, 2017 | Environment / HealthRight now in Washington, D.C., Congress is making decisions that will affect my future and that of my people — the Gwich’in Nation of Alaska and Canada. A critical part of our ancestral homelands, the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — one of the...