Andrew Cohen
Ottawa Citizen
Canada
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Cohen: The U.S. shouldn't tolerate Israel's slide away from democracy
So far, Secretary of State Antony Blinken is unable to say a discouraging word in public about the Israeli government. → Read More
Cohen: Hope stirs, even as antisemitism is on the rise
What is it about the persistence of this prejudice? Why won’t it go away? → Read More
Cohen: Warnock’s narrow U.S. Senate victory opens doors for the Democrats
You know the next political round has begun when pundits are already calling Georgia's senator a presidential prospect. → Read More
Cohen: Britain's Liz Truss completes a quartet of incompetent leaders
In Britain’s long-running melodrama, David Cameron was the fool, Theresa May the ditherer and Boris Johnson the jester. Now Britons must survive Truss. → Read More
Cohen: In helping Ukraine, Joe Biden boosts the Democrats' fortunes too
Biden’s greatest achievement may be as a wartime president: unifying the West, expanding NATO and, most of all, arming Ukraine to defend itself. → Read More
Cohen: The revival of America's cities doesn't include the poor
When the water ran out or ran brown in Jackson, Mississippi, last week, creating a crisis for its 150,000 residents, it was no surprise. Jackson is 83 per… → Read More
Cohen: Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan trip comes at exactly the wrong time
We don’t know how the Chinese will react. They’ll surely make good on threats to address what they call an assault on their sovereignty; if they don’t, their… → Read More
Cohen: Irving Abella — A self-effacing Jewish colossus who never left his roots
If there was one touchstone of Abella's Jewishness, it was food. What a pleasure it was to dine at his groaning table. The feast, intellectual or otherwise,… → Read More
Cohen: As Canada and the U.S. celebrate birthdays, their cultural differences grow
For the first time, Canadians wonder if the Americans share our belief in democracy. → Read More
Cohen: John F. Kennedy's 'Peace speech' would never be given today
No American president will speak as hopefully of the Russians as Kennedy did in 1963 during the Cold War. → Read More
Cohen: As we mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, celebrate Britain too
Where is Britain today, post-Brexit? Flawed, true — but imaginative, moderate, democratic and delightfully quirky. → Read More
Cohen: Ukraine's crisis is shifting the fortunes of Western leaders
Boris Johnson, Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz are all benefiting politically for the stands they have taken. Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau — not so much. → Read More
Cohen: When America used the army against the peaceful protesters of the 1932 'Bonus March'
During the Great Depression, impoverished First World War veterans came to Washington desperate for help. Instead, the president turned the troops on them. In… → Read More
Cohen: Truck convoy — An American-style protest, a limp Canadian response
The prissy city that issues parking tickets on Christmas Eve and makes kids shut down lemonade stands is afraid to ticket truckers blocking downtown, because,… → Read More
Cohen: Compromised judges challenge the U.S. Supreme Court
The spouse of Justice Clarence Thomas has long been visibly associated with far-right groups that have submitted briefs to the court on abortion, gun rights… → Read More
Cohen: Putin’s galloping expansionism in Ukraine may doom him in the end
With little Western appetite for military action, Putin may decide he can weather economic sanctions and live with a weaker economy. Yet he must know the risks… → Read More
Cohen: Washington's festiveness cloaks a more sinister potential future
There isn’t the prospect of war or natural disaster, just the mounting pressure of social and political upheaval in an angry, armed country coming apart. → Read More
Cohen: Two tests of leadership could make or break the presidency of Joe Biden
Domestically, the issue of abortion rights may shape the mid-term elections. Abroad, Russian threats loom. → Read More
Cohen: Geography, culture, commerce — Americans have much to be grateful for on their iconic holiday
For this foreigner, who has seen 46 states, lingering in some and living in others, there are so many things to appreciate here. → Read More
Cohen: The downfall — or maybe not — of Kamala Harris
The first Black woman to become U.S. vice-president is faring dismally in the polls, in a job whose office-holder is traditionally invisible. But it's early… → Read More