I was in the middle of an e-mail to an old friend this week, and had written a sentence about a mutual acquaintance that was more than 50 percent positive but contained a snarky word or two. I paused. “Is that necessary?” I thought to myself. No, it wasn’t. So I deleted the sentence. Maybe it was the Neera …

  Does anyone remember President Barack Obama’s pivot to Asia? The plan was to focus diplomatic and military assets in East Asia to contain a rising China. It was one of the reasons Obama said he was shrinking the American footprint in the Middle East. Well, the pivot is failing. On Thursday, the president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, announced …

  The EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) took seven years of negotiations. But the proposed deal is on the verge of collapse in its final lap. As the Belgian region of Wallonia has refused to give it a go-ahead, the European Union (EU) leaders remain on tenterhooks. Canada’s patience is also running thin. On Friday, an emotionally-charged Canadian …