Justin Trudeau and the progress of democratic reform

Photo credit: World Bank Photo Collection via VisualHunt.com / CC BY-NC-ND A few days ago, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said something true about electoral reform and people freaked out.  Ok, most people didn’t freak out and the ones who did are primarily opposition partisans who want electoral reform because they believe it will improve their…

2016 is the “Return of the Jedi” of US elections

According to Harry Enton at fivethirtyeight.com, US men are treating 2016 as ‘just another election’. Women, for reasons that should be obvious to anyone following events, are taking it far more seriously. It is incredible to me that anyone isn’t taking this election seriously, and not just because of Donald Trump. This is the Return…