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ON NOV. 22, 1990, three-term prime minister Margaret Thatcher announced her resignation. She had been knifed by a cabal of elites in her own party while attending a meeting in [...]

NO ONE GOT it right. Not me, not the press, not Conrad. The week of May 2 had no script. The way it was supposed to be was this: after [...]

THE GERMAN SHEPHERD was streaking around the ring like a Saluki. His handler, a lean-hipped chap, was sprinting next to it in long, fast strides--in itself a rare sight, since [...]

My life was wiped out in Chicago--at least all that mattered in it. No big deal for a city that has wiped out many lives, I suppose, but my demise [...]

The only female writers of importance I have personally met are Margaret Atwood and Joan Didion, both of whom are rather short. That, I realise, is an advantage of sorts. [...]

Mr. Rodman, an NR senior editor, is director of National Security Programs at the new Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom and the author of More Precious than Peace: The [...]

OFF THE CLIFF went Evan Solomon, the most recent putative successor to CBC's uber-news personality Peter Mansbridge. Before him it was Amanda Lang, whose rumoured future as the next Mansbridge [...]

IN LAST WEEK'S elections, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu won big at the expense of his allies, particularly Naftali Bennett's religious Zionist party Bayit Yehudi. Instead of trying to [...]

JUST AS PREDICTED, U.S. President Barack Obama got eaten up by software. Visionary entrepreneur Marc Andreessen, one of the first six people in the World Wide Web Hall of Fame, [...]

It is difficult not to be intemperate in the face of nine murdered journalists, two murdered policemen and a janitor, lying in pools of blood in Paris, the City of [...]

The irritation of the fitting room is one of life's little mysteries. This, after all, is where we make decisions that sway a nation's economy. Does my behind look good [...]

I didn't encounter snitches at school but my husband did. After an instruction given to the school by his headmaster, he wrote something very rude in response on the notice [...]

On Monday, North Korea claimed it joined the nuclear club. That same day, the UN Security Council nominated South Korea's Ban Ki-moon as its new secretary general, replacing the ineffable [...]

This year, the bees didn't return and the butterflies thinned right out. Summer came. The hydrangeas bloomed, the roses unfurled and all seemed well in our patch of north Toronto, [...]

Just 139 years after Confederation, Canada will open its first national opera house, the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, in Toronto on June 14--in spite of all Canadian [...]

The European Convention for the Protection of Pet Animals is must reading. The Eurocrats want to breed super races. They don't like the bowed legs of the basset hound, the [...]

They've been rioting in Paris for a couple of weeks, but looking at it in one way, the riots are rather small stuff. When the Chamber of Deputies was under [...]

LAST WEEK, George W. Bush had a working lunch with rock star Bono. They discussed debt relief, AIDS, malaria and world trade. Whatever. Senators Joseph Biden and Richard Lugar had [...]

I DISLIKE DRIVERS who flash their left-turn signal only after halting at a stoplight, and police cars that ostentatiously patrol important roads slowing traffic to a crawl. I dislike drivers [...]

INVENTING QUOTES or secretly recording conversations isn't my style as a journalist, but sucking up, smarmy, oleaginous, I've done it all for a good interview. I don't know if Brian [...]

THE STREETS of London are packed with shoppers, property prices are at an all- time high and balalaika music is interspersed with jingle bells. The Russian community in London now [...]

EACH YEAR, the Israeli foreign ministry puts out a book listing all the UN resolutions passed on Israel, Palestine and the Middle East. It dutifully sets out the text and [...]

I GOT INTO various stews when I began as a columnist at Maclean's, but the day I wrote about the "horrible sub-human face of union leader Bob White" was a [...]

IN HER PULITZER Prize-winning novel The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton begins with a night at the opera. This is New York society at the onset of the Gilded Age, [...]

WHEN the red carpet walk was cancelled before the Oscar ceremonies in March because America was at war and Hollywood was 'conflicted' about how flashy to make its big evening, [...]

THE AGONIZING DILEMMA of helping the Iraqi people by bombing them was the subject of my last column ('Why Civilized People Kill,' March 17). In it, my ire was directed [...]

AN ESSAY written by George Orwell in 1940 begins with the line, 'As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.' Every time the Western [...]

'WELL, IRAQ WAS THE BIG STORY,' Peter Mansbridge said in opening The National recently, chatting with Ottawa correspondent Eric Sorensen. Agreeing, Sorensen asked, 'Will this country support a U.S.-led war […]

WE HEAR A GREAT DEAL about Iraq and a lot about North Korea, but there is not much editorial analysis of the third member of President Bush's 'axis of evil,' [...]

IF I WERE Stephen Harper, which some of my less supportive readers might say I already am, though I can assure you that I dress on the other side--but if [...]

ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER Ariel Sharon's second stroke in 2006 left him in a medically induced coma from which he never recovered. There had been anecdotal reports these past few years [...]

I STARTED WRITING a column for this magazine 25 years ago. In 1977, hairdressers still knew how to do 'sets' with rollers. Electric typewriters were in every Maclean's office. Vicente [...]

COMMENTATORS TALK about George 'Dubya' Bush's great mid-term victory last week as a reflection of America's concern about the War on Terrorism, but many women who voted for him have [...]

WHILE THEIR LANDLADY visited Canada last week, her tenants in the royal condo at London's Kensington Palace were still scrunching and squealing from an earlier visit of members of the [...]

ON SEPT. 3, 1939, Britain declared war after German panzer divisions invaded Poland. The war was long and terrible. As in all such awful times, there were many exceptional episodes. [...]

FOR ME, NOTHING is as pleasing as the soothing sound of a Canadian radio broadcaster. But even the late, great Peter Gzowski couldn't invest many of the stories others are [...]

On the day that President Bush announced he wanted a new US$35.5 billion Department of Homeland Security, I was on a British Airways Concorde, lying on the floor, still strapped [...]

In the 1970s when China and the former Soviet Union quarrelled, Kremlin etiquette required that they never talked about their hostility directly and instead used the code word 'Albania.' If [...]

Thank you, Amy Gehring, the 26-year-old woman from Otterville, Ont., recently acquitted of indecently assaulting some of her underage male pupils in the British school where she was a supply [...]

Once upon a time there was a famous Canadian company called Thomson Corp. It owned lots of things including the Globe and Mail. Thomson saw that being involved in Canada [...]

ON THE DAY that Nelson Mandela died, I was going to a worthy but tedious charity event at the CNE in Toronto. Great moments in history ought not to be [...]

I went to Paris 10 days ago to get rid of my remaining French francs before the euro currency debuts in January. I'll use any excuse to go to Paris. [...]