history | Watching America

Australia: Think the Past Will Protect Australia from Trump’s Future? Think Again

Rejeanne Lacroix - January 27, 2025. Published in Sydney Morning Herald

Canada: History Doesn’t Repeat Itself — but Watching Trump, Biden and Harris, It Rhymes

Rejeanne Lacroix - October 28, 2024. Published in Toronto Star

Canada: As Republicans Kindle a Sense of National Fraternity, Beware the Risks

Rejeanne Lacroix - July 22, 2024. Published in National Post

Canada: 8 Days that Shook the World

Rejeanne Lacroix - July 22, 2024. Published in Toronto Sun

Russia: The American Empire Is Crumbling — Just Like the Spanish Empire Before It*

Robin Koerner - September 21, 2023. Published in RIA Novosti

[T]he Spanish Inquisition, which stifled any dissent, is what the Democrats in the U.S. are doing today while exporting their flawed ideology around the world.

China : The Bedrock Upholding the US Self-Correction Myth Has Collapsed

Andrew Engler - October 6, 2022. Published in Global Times

Can the much-touted resilience of the 'self-correcting' U.S. system still live up to its reputation?

South Korea: Why Koreans Criticize the US for the Taft-Katsura Agreement

Robin Koerner - November 25, 2021. Published in Hankyoreh

Pursuing national interests under the pretense of advancing righteous ideals increases the risk of conflict and decreases chances of compromise, ultimately leading to disaster.

Brazil: The Isolationism of 1930 and the Fall of Kabul in 2021

Robin Koerner - August 31, 2021. Published in Correio Braziliense

Germany: Flying Blindly toward Inflation

Michael Stehle - August 6, 2021. Published in Der Spiegel

When the Fed makes mistakes, they are felt worldwide.

Canada: American History Poorly Taught

Robin Koerner - July 28, 2021. Published in Journal de Quebec

A young student in Quebec gets a better education than his or her American neighbor.

Canada: Trumpism and the F-Word

Robin Koerner - July 28, 2021. Published in Le Journal de Québec

History does not necessarily repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

Canada: Why Is America’s History of Dealing with Indigenous Peoples Held in a Harsher Light than Canada’s?

Rejeanne Lacroix - July 8, 2021. Published in Globe and Mail

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