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Our real border is not the 8,891-­kilometre line to our south, but a complex set of institutions and rules that determine who can enter, who can stay and who should be kept out, A decade ago, Canada’s border had all but disappeared from public consciousness. The mid-2010s saw Ottawa and Washington https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/globe-politics-insider/what-harper-and-obama-actually-achieved-in-their-mexico-meeting/article17053497/ https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2013/10/28/moving-nafta-forward/opening the border to labour mobility in something like a European [...]

Byline: Doug Saunders.; Staff Doug Saunders is The Globe and Mail's international affairs columnist. BORDERLINE TRAGEDIES A decade ago, Canada's border had all but disappeared from public consciousness. The mid-2010s [...]

Also in today’s edition: Driver in New Orleans rampage acted alone and a guide to new laws coming in 2025, Good morning. I’m Doug Saunders, International Affairs Columnist here at The Globe. In 2024, more than half the vote-eligible adults on Earth went to the polls and somehow we ended [...]

While much of the world grew darker this year – politically, economically, environmentally – some places celebrated historic improvements in quality of life, We probably won’t be looking back on 2024 as one of history’s better years. Beneath all the https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-2024-was-a-year-of-elections-when-democracy-lost-out/ though, life got better for a lot of people around the world [...]

Byline: Doug Saunders; Staff We probably won't be looking back on 2024 as one of history's better years. Beneath all the gloom and backsliding, though, life got better for a [...]

Byline: Doug Saunders; Staff Doug Saunders is The Globe and Mail's international affairs columnist. My journey through this Year of Elections began with a lesson in real democracy in a [...]

More than half the vote-eligible population of the planet went to the polls this year. The result was terrible for democratic freedoms, My journey through this Year of Elections began with a lesson in real democracy in a place where I had not expected to find one. I then witnessed world-changing national [...]

Byline: DOUG SAUNDERS; Staff Donald Trump's tariff threats have been a sobering reminder of Canada's enduring flaw: the still-inadequate size and density of our consumer, investment and labour markets. The [...]

Byline: DOUG SAUNDERS; Staff Angela Merkel emerged from three years of self-imposed silence this week with a one-word summary of the political crisis that has ended the government of her [...]

The consequences of the fictions about that turning-point election from the likes of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin – that it involved NATO, that there was a coup, and that the U.S. interfered on behalf of Ukraine – still resonate to this day, Your view of what should be done in https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/ukraine/after 2024 is determined by what you believe happened there in 2014. Those events unfolded so quickly and chaotically, and were witnessed [...]

Byline: DOUG SAUNDERS; Staff We are in the midst of a kind of cold war, one that pits free societies against a growing bloc of authoritarian and ultra-nationalistic regimes that [...]

If we are to survive this era with our values and freedoms intact, we need to take several actions., We are in the midst of a kind of cold war, one that pits free societies against a growing bloc of authoritarian and ultra-nationalistic regimes that have rejected many of [...]

On today’s show, The Decibel is hosting an election night watch party, featuring Globe journalists in the newsroom and on the ground in key swing states, For the best listening experience and to never miss an episode, subscribe to The Decibel on your favourite podcast app or platform: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Pocket Casts [...]

The Israeli PM’s refusal to follow any informed advice from the United States has led a growing number of observers to call this for what it really is: deliberate interference in the U.S. election, Plenty of U.S. elections have been fought over the conduct of foreign wars. What we’re seeing in the Middle East today is a disturbing new inversion: a foreign war apparently [...]

Byline: Doug Saunders; Staff Doug Saunders is The Globe and Mail's international affairs columnist. A fter spending her last $5 on a child's inflatable life vest, Kerli Vasquez gripped the [...]

Kerli Vazquez, son Greike and boyfriend Xavier made it to New York after a trek that tested their endurance and threatened their lives. The race between Harris and Trump could decide their future, After spending her last five dollars on a child’s inflatable life vest, Kerli Vasquez gripped the hand of her rambunctious 4-year-old son Greike, told her boyfriend Xavier to lock up [...]

Byline: DOUG SAUNDERS; Staff How, you might ask, can Germany have been all but driven out of its important role in world affairs, with Chancellor Olaf Scholz devoting himself almost [...]

Globe columnist Doug Saunders explains the strengths and perceived weaknesses of Harris and how they are suited for this moment, For the best listening experience and to never miss an episode, subscribe to The Decibel on your favourite podcast app or platform: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Pocket Casts [...]

Byline: DOUG SAUNDERS; Staff Kamala Harris has not been very visible during the past 3 1/2 years, as is often the case with U.S. vice-presidents. Despite a robust set of [...]

Byline: DOUG SAUNDERS; Staff It was the first and, to date, the only time the front page of The Globe has brought down a federal government. Readers who spent three [...]

Byline: Doug Saunders; Staff Doug Saunders is The Globe and Mail's international affairs columnist. Believe it or not, we are living through a rare moment of harmony and co-operation among [...]

As a vengeful Donald Trump looks likely to return to power in the U.S. in November and the far-right gains power in Europe, international institutions are trying to do as much as they can for global security before the hammer falls. Will it be enough?, Believe it or not, we are living through a rare moment of harmony and co-operation among the world’s major democracies. As the latest summits of the G7 and NATO have [...]

Byline: DOUG SAUNDERS; Staff Julian Assange is a fraud who called himself a journalist and a whistle-blower while greatly hindering and inconveniencing the cause of journalism and making life much [...]

Byline: DOUG SAUNDERS; Staff Britain's July 4 election is a contest between two politically unexciting and not very eloquent men, both of whom have spent the past few years struggling [...]

Byline: DOUG SAUNDERS; Staff The relationship between immigration and the economy is a matter of supply and demand. For too long, attention has fallen on the supply side: How many [...]

Byline: DOUG SAUNDERS; Staff The signature act of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's re-election bid was to inaugurate his campaign by opening a vast Hindu temple in the northern state [...]

Byline: DOUG SAUNDERS; Staff U.S.President Joe Biden has been struggling in recent days to back away from a terrible miscalculation he made in October. That mistake, made by other Western [...]

Byline: Doug Saunders and Zia Ur Rehman Doug Saunders is The Globe and Mail's international affairs columnist. Zia Ur Rehman is a freelance journalist and researcher based in Karachi. The [...]

Byline: DOUG SAUNDERS; Staff ISLAMABAD -- Delivery driver Saeed Mehsud headed to the polling station in his Islamabad neighbourhood Thursday morning hoping to cast a ballot for what is possibly [...]

Billions of adults go to the polls next year, including in nations where democracy is in poor health. Will they slip further into illiberalism, or start climbing to freedom?, Updated: December 29, 2023 The year ahead, from one perspective, will be the most successful democracy has ever seen. Never in history will so many people have the opportunity to [...]

Multiple European countries have seen far-right political parties gain power and momentum, Updated: November 29, 2023 For the best listening experience and to never miss an episode, subscribe to The Decibel on your favourite podcast app or platform: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon [...]

Data now show that dangerous and unmonitored migration paths are directly caused by those security measures, Updated: November 24, 2023 Half the world’s citizens will be voting in national elections in 2024, and it looks like a big share of those campaign battles – in Britain, [...]

For the price of a few votes, millions of lives can be threatened, Updated: November 17, 2023 Some of the biggest stories in the world are not, it would seem, about wars or elections. They are about food. In Nigeria, for example, there [...]

Byline: DOUG SAUNDERS; Staff I was surprised, when I logged into a virtual foreign-policy discussion hosted in Brussels on Tuesday, to find Europeans on the chat page talking not about [...]

The 2024 U.S. election has become the biggest issue in international politics, eclipsing Ukraine, Gaza and China in the capitals of major democracies, Updated: November 10, 2023 I was surprised, when I logged into a virtual foreign-policy discussion hosted in Brussels on Tuesday, to find Europeans on the chat page talking not about [...]

Byline: Doug Saunders; Staff Doug Saunders is The Globe and Mail's international affairs columnist. This is the third instalment in his year-long series devoted to the global migration crisis. Tan-Tan: [...]

Byline: DOUG SAUNDERS; Staff When I moved to London for the second time in my life, in the early 2000s, I was struck by a highly visible change: The street-level [...]

Byline: DOUG SAUNDERS; Staff Twenty-five years ago next Wednesday, my girlfriend and I, midway through a driving trip to Nova Scotia, met with a justice of the peace on the [...]

Byline: DOUG SAUNDERS; Staff When Western governments gathered in London last week to find a way to pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine - amid an international estimate that simply [...]

Byline: DOUG SAUNDERS; Staff BRUSSELS What would you do if 600,000 people suddenly showed up in your city? That's what Claudia Lopez, the mayor of Bogota, has faced over the [...]

Byline: DOUG SAUNDERS; Staff To witness the dramatic way the map of the world is being repainted in two-tone colours by the effects of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, look to [...]

Byline: DOUG SAUNDERS; Staff Twenty years after he first came to power on what had been a pro-Europe reformist platform, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared his sixth election victory [...]

Byline: DOUG SAUNDERS; Staff One day in late May, 2010, I dropped by the Ankara office building of Turkey's largest opposition party, the venerable Republican People's Party (CHP). News had [...]

Byline: Doug Saunders.; Staff 1. Farmer in the slum Ho Chi Minh City If anyone in the world might be described as a climate migrant, it is Kim Phuong. For [...]

Byline: DOUG SAUNDERS; Staff When I chronicled the seven million Venezuelans who have fled their failed country for the start of a series in January, I put Kerli at the [...]

Byline: Doug Saunders; Staff Doug Saunders is The Globe and Mail's international affairs columnist. 1. The escape Necocli, Colombia Six years ago, 18-year-old Kerli Vasquez watched her country erupt in [...]