All posts by Diana Thebaud Nicholson

Canada: government & governance post 2015 election
December 28, 2016, 1 Comment

The inner circle: Inside Trudeau’s economic advisory team Ministers, Parliamentary Secretaries, Opposition Critics: Th ...

U.S. government & governance
December 28, 2016, Comments Off on U.S. government & governance

Democracy Now! stories, posts and pages that relate to Koch Brothers Princeton Study: U.S. No Longer An Actual Democracy ...

Donald Trump & U.S. Foreign Relations 2016
December 27, 2016, Comments Off on Donald Trump & U.S. Foreign Relations 2016

27 December UN just a club to have a good time, says Donald Trump (The Australian) Days after the UN voted to condemn Is ...

Russia in 2016
December 25, 2016, 2 Comments

Putin’s Secret Riches (video) (BBC Panorama) Vladimir Putin has been accused of corruption on a breathtaking scale ...

Christmas 2016
December 25, 2016, Comments Off on Christmas 2016

Symbol of rituals dating from ancient, pagan times, the Christmas tree today is omnipresent in guises ranging from snow- ...

Media Matters 2016
December 22, 2016, Comments Off on Media Matters 2016

Media Matters 2015 The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy How to Deal With the Lies of Donald Trump ...

Education 2015-16
December 22, 2016, 1 Comment

“People often confuse charters and vouchers, but they are very different,” wrote Parag Pathak of the Massachusetts I ...

Wednesday Night #1815
December 21, 2016, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1815

Winter Solstice today. Yes. Wednesday 21 December 2016 is the shortest day of the year and last night was the longest ni ...

Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare 2012-16
December 15, 2016, 1 Comment

15 December Opinion: He won’t actually take away my insurance, will he? (NYT) “I kept hearing informed voters, who h ...

Wednesday Night #1814
December 14, 2016, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1814

2016 has been marked by some great losses of admirable (and seemingly irreplaceable)  public figures, as well as severa ...