Authoritarianism is still very much in vogue, in Washington and Seoul alike.

Andrew Mitrovica is an Al Jazeera columnist based in Toronto.
Authoritarianism is still very much in vogue, in Washington and Seoul alike.
The brouhaha over President Biden’s predictable volte-face to pardon his wayward son is missing an obvious point.
The US president-elect has threatened tariffs and his Canadian followers are having trouble digesting that.
His cabinet picks look like a bunch of boy scouts and girl guides in comparison with many of those who preceded them.
Trump picked ‘staunchly pro-Israel’ cadres for his administration, like all other US presidents of the past 75 years.
He can stop arming Israel now, and go down in history as a president who – albeit belatedly – put an end to a genocide.
Having grabbed power again, Trump will likely destroy himself. But he must not be allowed to destroy America.
American ‘democracy’ is a sweet illusion meant to convince the gullible that party 1 is different from party 1a.
They say she is using ‘the climate movement to throw her support behind the Palestinians’. Well, good on her.
The prime minister won’t let anyone get away with harming Canadian citizens (other than Israel).