Opinion & Editorials
![OP-ED: Canadian Response to Trucker Convoy Reveals a Retrospective Need for Federal Authority](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/631787b0b9ac8917540f8f4a/1664655642219-M1NFM6NZ0EDNECMQ581H/Screen%2BShot%2B2022-05-05%2Bat%2B3.34.44%2BPM.png)
OP-ED: Canadian Response to Trucker Convoy Reveals a Retrospective Need for Federal Authority
Three months ago, the streets of Ottawa, Canada, were littered with the machinery of freight-haulers and twenty-four hour cacophonous truck sirens.
![Op-Ed: On Poland, Refugee Blackmail, and Cautious Optimism for Liberal Democracy in the EU](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/631787b0b9ac8917540f8f4a/1664738342900-P9I7XMNLHEI47R4ICTQW/Screen%2BShot%2B2022-05-05%2Bat%2B3.41.27%2BPM.png)
Op-Ed: On Poland, Refugee Blackmail, and Cautious Optimism for Liberal Democracy in the EU
Last month, a group of refugees recently arrived from eastern Ukraine gathered beneath the statue of Adam Mickiewicz on Rynek Główny in Krakow’s Old Town to call for peace.
![France’s Far-Right Lost Another Battle, But They Could Still Win the War [OP-ED]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/631787b0b9ac8917540f8f4a/1664809791173-HCR6Z3XTLLD543QXATHM/we%252Bcover.jpg)
France’s Far-Right Lost Another Battle, But They Could Still Win the War [OP-ED]
After a nearly-successful attempt on his life, followed by a crushing military defeat at the hands of the Prussian Army in 1757, King Louis XV pondered the precarious future of France with four biblical, nihilistic words: “Après moi, le Deluge.”
![For Better or Worse, Germany is Flexing its Muscles Again [Op-Ed]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/631787b0b9ac8917540f8f4a/1663807156864-PCPGT6ZPFJLGUOYUE2MP/we%2Bcover.png)
For Better or Worse, Germany is Flexing its Muscles Again [Op-Ed]
Russian President Vladimir Putin managed to single-handedly spark a foreign policy revolution in Germany. Putin’s grotesque invasion of Ukraine