Ms. McCuaig-Johnston said the new defense strategy was overdue. “Canada has not invested adequately in our defense industries, as we perceived ourselves to be protected by our U.S. neighbor,” she said. “That has clearly changed.”

 

Canada Gives U.S. Arms Makers the Cold Shoulder on Military Spending

By Ian Austen

Reporting from Ottawa

Trashing the EPA's car emissions standards is not a bad thing.

 

With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules

By Hiroko Tabuchi

As a lawyer, I feel most strongly about the least-discussed benefit: Eliminating bus fares can clear junk cases out of our court system, lowering the crushing caseloads that prevent our judges, prosecutors and public defenders from focusing their attention where it’s most needed.

Something Surprising Happens When Bus Rides Are Free

By Emily Galvin Almanza

Ms. Almanza is the executive director of Partners for Justice, a nonprofit organization that seeks to transform public defense.

Carney is putting Canada above the U.S by making it apparent Trump is a blustering moron trashing our future

 

Canada’s Financial Market SHOCKS the World — USA HUMILIATED!

Paul Krugman's devasting analysis of Canada's PM Mark Carney walking out of the Trump White House on October 7 2025

 

White House $700B Trade Deal IMPLODES 

as Carney WALKS OUT - Paul Krugman Explains

At a pipe plant in Nikopol, a city across the Dnipro River and less than five miles from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, which Russia controls, I asked a crane operator, Yevhen Bilousov, when he thought the war might end. The factory was ringed with antidrone nets, its windows covered by metal sheets perforated by shrapnel holes, but the work carried on. The question itself was meaningless, he told me, “because everything depends not on when but on how the war ends.”

 When will the War in Ukraine End?

The Question is Meaningless

By Nataliya Gumenyuk

Ms. Gumenyuk is a Ukrainian journalist who is writing a book about drone warfare. She wrote from Kyiv.

Ukraine is Finally Calling Trump’s Bluff

With Alabama, Loisiana and Mississipi proving to be the best hope in schooling at one third the cost per pupil shows Linda McMahon is not wrong in delisting the Department of Education

 These Three Red States Are The Best Hope In Schooling

Rather, hope emerges in the most unlikely of places: three states here in the Deep South that long represented America’s educational basement. These states — Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi — have histories of child poverty, racism and dismal educational outcomes, and they continue to spend less than most other states on public schools.

Yet, consider:

• Louisiana ranks No. 1 in the country in recovery from pandemic losses in reading, while Alabama ranks No. 1 in math recovery.

• The state with the lowest chronic absenteeism in schools is Alabama, according to a tracker with data from 40 states.

• Once an educational laughingstock, Mississippi now ranks ninth in the country in fourth-grade reading levels — and after adjusting for demographics such as poverty and race, Mississippi ranks No. 1, while Louisiana ranks No. 2, according to calculations by the Urban Institute. Using the same demographic adjustment, Mississippi also ranks No. 1 in America in both fourth-grade and eighth-grade math.

• Black fourth graders in Mississippi are on average better readers than those in Massachusetts, which is often thought to have the best public school system in the country (and one that spends twice as much per pupil).

By Nicholas Kristof

Photographs by Lynsey Addario

Mr. Kristof is an Opinion Columnist who reported from Alabama and Mississippi. Ms. Addario is a photojournalist whose most recent book is “Of Love & War.”

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