Articles by Eleanor Stratton

Canada’s Mark Carney under fire on Iran as U.S. checks complicate alliance unity

This article is a forward-looking scenario, not a description of current Canadian leadership. In today’s reality, Justin Trudeau is Canada’s prime minister. But the dynamics described here, about Ottawa’s Iran messaging and Washington’s institutional constraints, are best understood as a...

Takeaways from Kristi Noem’s combative Senate Judiciary Committee hearing

Confirmation hearings are not trials, and they are not job interviews in the normal sense. They are something more constitutionally revealing: a stress test for power. Who gets to ask questions. Who has to answer them. Which promises are treated as binding, and which are treated as theater....

Supreme Court Questions Federal Gun Ban for Regular Marijuana Users

You can buy marijuana legally in more states than ever, whether through adult-use programs in a growing number of states or medical programs in many more. You can also legally own or purchase firearms under state law in most of those states, subject to local rules like permits, waiting periods, and...