Andrew Potter

Why people can’t help themselves

Andrew Potter on how many take a great pleasure in anti-social behaviour, like rioting

by Andrew Potter - Friday, August 19, 2011
The trouble with too much democracy

The real threat is not economic decline, it’s political decay

by Andrew Potter - Friday, August 5, 2011
The forgotten members of the mission in Afghanistan

Canada is neglecting the civil servants who played a key role in the mission

by Andrew Potter - Monday, July 18, 2011
Sorry Rob, the gay pride parade is part of the job

Andrew Potter on the ritual humiliations that come with being a politician

by Andrew Potter - Thursday, June 30, 2011
Toronto's war on fun

If only we could shrug it off as a quirky hangover from its Victorian origins

by Andrew Potter - Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Where shock art is still dangerous

One of the most famous artists in China uses his status to engage in political activism

by Andrew Potter - Tuesday, May 24, 2011
The Greens? Care about the environment?

Pining for electoral reform—the real Green cause—as the planet burns is pure political narcissism

by Andrew Potter - Wednesday, April 20, 2011
One of these things is just like the other

Andrew Potter on Harper’s loyalty to Canada

by Andrew Potter - Friday, April 8, 2011
Want Harper to be less of a dictator? Give him a majority.

Five years of tory minority rule have been a drunkard’s walk of vote-buying and bed-feathering

by Andrew Potter - Monday, March 28, 2011
Why happiness suddenly matters

If you’re a politician, there are only a couple of ways you can tackle the falling-income problem

by Andrew Potter - Monday, February 14, 2011
Nothing to fear but WiFi and fluoride

The tinfoil hat is now thoroughly mainstream garb

by Andrew Potter - Monday, December 13, 2010
What was that about hearts and minds?

In Kandahar, NATO forces have been destroying homes ‘to make them safe.’ Sound familiar?

by Andrew Potter - Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Where was the youth vote?

POTTER: No one bailed on Obama as pathetically as young voters

by Andrew Potter - Friday, November 12, 2010
Canada has never offered 'a mosaic'

POTTER: Our policies have been aimed at integrating newcomers, not keeping them apart

by Andrew Potter - Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Afghan detainees sans scandal?

What life is like inside Afghan detention facilities

by Andrew Potter - Monday, October 18, 2010
Politics big-city elites, you say. Sound familiar at all?

It is clear that you can’t win in modern politics by having evidence or good ideas on your side

by Andrew Potter - Thursday, September 30, 2010
Bird-huggers vs. tree-huggers

We can’t build a wind farm because it might imperil Margaret Atwood’s love of spotting a rare fruited warbler

by Andrew Potter - Monday, September 20, 2010
Chilean miners: That far down, who decides what's law?

Even NASA sees it as a case study in isolation

by Andrew Potter - Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Aliens like us? I don't think so.

Whether alien culture resembles our own depends on one big question: do they have sex?

by Andrew Potter - Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Harper is on to something in cutting aid

POTTER: “A rare case of Tory ideology actually aligning itself with sound public policy”

by Andrew Potter - Wednesday, August 11, 2010