It’s Very Cold. Just Wait for the Grid to Fail.
Mr. Meyer is a contributing Opinion writer and the founding executive editor of Heatmap, a media company focused on climate change.
Friday, January 30, 2026
There are other options: Nuclear power plants can provide zero-carbon electricity 24 hours a day, regardless of the weather outside or the temperature inside. Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York has laudably called for building five gigawatts of new nuclear capacity in the state. Could she band together with others in New England to build even more? In the 1970s, France responded to the oil crisis by building dozens of new nuclear power plants — and because it built them all at the same time, it got good at building them cheaply, quickly and safely. If Northeastern lawmakers want cheaper electricity, lower emissions and less oil and gas combustion, then they should consider a similar path.
Spain's Franco & Chile's Pinochet dictatorships of the Right were blessed by their leaving a vibrant democracy after their reign while Fidel Castro's dictatorship of Cuba of the Left remains as George Orwell's "Animal Farm"
Pinochet Is Smiling in His Grave
Mr. Dorfman, a Chilean American writer, is the author of the play “Death and the Maiden” and the novels “The Suicide Museum” and “Allegro.”
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
If the Trump administration’s policies inspire foreign-born tech workers to leave the US—or not to come at all—India is well positioned to benefit. Quantifying any reverse migration is difficult; the Indian tech industry trade body Nasscom says it has no estimate of returnee numbers. But there are signs of a shift. LinkedIn, for instance, saw a 40% increase in tech professionals changing their location to India in the third quarter of 2025, the latest data the platform has made available.
The US Is Losing Top Tech Talent to India in the Wake of Trump’s H-1B Chaos
The Trump administration has put new fees and other barriers on a visa program popular among Indian engineers working in the US.
Today, when hiring, leaders I know look for what might be called a generalist with judgment, someone analytical and adaptable who is nimble enough to learn skills and become reasonably conversant in new knowledge. The best candidates share a quality no machine can replicate. They think independently, navigate ambiguity without waiting for instruction, analyze the questions that were not asked but should have been and own their decisions. They use A.I. — as a tool but not a crutch.
Why A.I. Can’t Make Thoughtful Decisions
Mr. Effron is a co-founder of Centerview Partners, an investment bank.
Its not Liberal versus Conservative but LIBERTARIAN belief on gun rights, states' rights and limited us of federal power versus made up dictates of an AUTHORITARIAN
Shootings Pose a Hard Question for the Right: Who’s a Conservative, Really?
Republicans wrestle with Trump administration positions that seem to contradict their beliefs on gun rights, states’ rights and limited use of federal power.
Russia’s poor battlefield performance in Ukraine and declining economic productivity indicates that Russia is in serious decline as a major power. While Russia still possesses nuclear weapons and a large military, it is no longer a great power in most military, economic, or science and technology categories.”
Troop Casualties in Ukraine War Near 2 Million, Study Finds
The number of deaths, injuries and missing is approaching a grim milestone after nearly four years of fighting.
Reporting from Washington
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
David French writes about the University of Austin launched with much fanfare in 2021 toward the original definition of "liberal," emerging in the early 1800s, referred to a political ideology focused on liberty, championing individual rights, limited government, and freedom of speech, religion, and thought. Rooted in the Latin liber (free), it evolved from advocating for open, non-coercive societies to opposing arbitrary state power and promoting free markets (classical liberalism) now hardening toward authoritarian
Monday, January 26, 2026
“A cheap yen has been one of the last bastions of the global carry trade,” said Naomi Fink, chief global strategist at Amova Asset Management, one of Japan’s biggest asset managers. If the central bank steps up rate hikes, this can translate into lower prices for riskier assets globally, according to Fink. But “Japan has got itself into a really vulnerable position,” said Marlborough Investment’s Athey. “If authorities simply ignore these moves, then the market could get really dysfunctional, and they will then have to respond to a much worse situation.”
Japan Bond Crash Unleashes a $7 Trillion Risk for Global Markets
As the country hurtles towards the snap election called by Prime Minister Takaichi, more unpredictable and violent price swings are expected
Sunday, January 25, 2026
In John McTiernan’s 1990 film adaptation of “The Hunt for Red October,” Fred Thompson, in the years before he was elected as a Republican senator from Tennessee, delivers a haunting warning as he and Alec Baldwin’s Jack Ryan observe a deadly naval disaster. “This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.” We have three years left with a mad king. It does not feel sustainable.
R Rob Vernon, B.C. Jan. 24: It's hard to look at Mr. Douthat's words and not see a sort of casual American arrogance and dismissiveness. But if polling was done on the topic of states and provinces wishing to join each other's countries, I feel confident that there are close to a dozen American states that would show real interest in joining Canada, while absolutely no province, not even Alberta, would have any interest in joining the U.S.
goose droppings Ottawa Jan. 22 Allow me to state something that is obvious to Canadians, but will shock many US citizens: we know their country better than they know it themselves. The average Canadian (whom Carney called the best educated in the world, but I’ll take that with a grain of potash) is saturated with US media, and its geography, leading politicians, and history. Our businesses must know its legal and financial system in great detail; our diplomats must always speak knowing its policies. So it is no surprise to us that Carney was the one to concisely state the facts and come to the inevitable conclusion: the United States of America, in its ignorance, greed, racism and violence - all made flesh in its current president - is untrustworthy and potentially dangerous. To change, the USA must come to know itself much better: be better educated, and stop telling itself lies.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney appears to be the master bullfighter and Donald Trump the doomed bull #2
Like the bull fight where Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is the Toreador and President Donald Trump is the storming bull who doesn’t stand a chance. Canada just implemented a ten hour review of every truck crossing the Ambassador Bridge to deliver Aluminum in Michigan border causing a DETROIT COLLAPSE: The $15,000 Per Minute Trap That Killed "Just-in-Time" deliveries to GM and Ford factories. This bridge is the jugular vein of commerce between Canada and the U.S. with 10,000 crossings per day keeping U.S. factories operating. Deliveries so intertwined with the economic ecosystem of Detroit that if one small seemly insignificant delivey is not made the whole system is stopped.
The irony is that Mark Carney is the judicious use of U.S. Law in the enforcement of this economic trap.
Traffic Jam No. 2
Dear Diary:
I was running late. I was just stepping out of my hotel on the Upper East Side and had 15 minutes to meet a friend in Midtown. With no time for makeup, I must have looked a like a complete mess.
It was a bitterly cold afternoon. Rush-hour traffic had Fifth Avenue gridlocked, and my bus was nowhere in sight. Gripping my collar, I began to sprint south.
Luckily I was only a few minutes late in arriving, but my face was numb and red from the icy wind.
“What blush are you wearing?” my friend said when she saw me. “That shade looks amazing!”
I blinked.
“I think it’s called Fifth Avenue Traffic Jam!” I said.
— Levi Jiang
Saturday, January 24, 2026
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney appears to be the master bullfighter and Donald Trump the doomed bull #1
The fight over Canada’s oil and gas resources appears to be like a bull fight where Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is the Toreador and President Donald Trump is the storming bull who demands subservience to Texas. But as in all bull fights this bull doesn’t stand a chance.
First come the Bandilleras, the decorated, barbed sticks used in bullfighting to provoke the bull, which in this case is Canada’s “silent” Sea Blockade: Why US Ships are TRAPPED (2026) by Tugboat Pilots legally denying to assist substandard tankers through the Strait of Juan de Fuca controlled by Canada which requires by law that a local Pilot assists a vessel traveling inbound or out to either the Vancouver Canada or Seattle Washington ports. Apparently US tanker vessels are old and substandard while Canadian vessels serving the Far East are new with first class environmental certificates. As of January 15th Canada requires first class certificates which the old U.S. flagged ships don’t have and which now has put in limbo such vessels floating at the entrance without possibility of returning to the port of Washington or pushing through to the open waters of the Pacific.
But for the final kill Toreador Carney introduced Canada’s newly built pipeline that transports oil and gas from Alberta’s fields eleven hundred miles to Vancouver where its Oil and Gas will enjoy a 30% premium when sold to Asian buyers over oil and gas normally sent by pipeline to Texas. On the other hand buyers of Dakota crude are canceling shipments because of the bottleneck and depressing prices. This diversion of Canadian oil and gas from Texas will hit American industry hard as its energy advantage disappeared overnight. Secondly Texas refineries have a penchant for Alberta’s heavy oil because of their expertise in refining it and will now have to source it from Venezuela
Meanwhile Trump the mortally wounded bull makes the following headline
Trump Threatens New Tariffs on Canada Over China
The president warned of 100% tariffs on Canadian goods if the North American neighbor ‘makes a deal with China’
The unraveling of President Trump’s mind is of concern. Narcissists sometimes get worse with age, as their remaining inhibitions fall away. The effect is bound to be profound when the narcissist happens to be president of the United States.
The Coming Trump Crackup
Opinion Columnist
And no, I don’t think America is headed toward anything like a Rome-style collapse. Our institutions are too strong, and our people, deep down, still have the same democratic values.
But I do know that events are being propelled by one man’s damaged psyche. History does not record many cases in which a power-mad leader careening toward tyranny suddenly regained his senses and became more moderate. On the contrary, the normal course of the disease is toward ever-accelerating deterioration and debauchery.
And I do understand why America’s founding fathers spent so much time reading historians like Tacitus and Sallust. Thomas Jefferson called Tacitus “the first writer in the world, without a single exception.” They understood that the lust for power is a primal human impulse and that even all the safeguards they built into the Constitution are no match for this lust when it is not restrained ethically from within.
As John Adams put it in a letter in 1798, “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.”
Friday, January 23, 2026
In Davos, Mr. Bessent ridiculed Europe’s often convoluted decision-making process. He said that officials would form “the dreaded European working group” rather than devise a forceful response to Mr. Trump’s demands over Greenland. That limitation was on display on Wednesday, when the European Parliament voted to delay ratification of a long-negotiated trade deal between the European Union and four South American countries, a setback to the bloc’s push to diversify its trading relationships.
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