Michael Cuenco

Michael Cuenco is a writer on policy and politics. He is Associate Editor at American Affairs.

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Justin Trudeau’s own party is pushing him to the brink Canada's embattled PM is clinging on — for now

18 Dec 2024

Luigi Mangione has sparked a healthcare debate in America It shouldn't have taken Brian Thompson's murder for things to change

16 Dec 2024

Is Bernie Sanders going MAGA?

13 Dec 2024

UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting exposes America’s class divide Brian Thompson's death has been met with glee in some corners of the internet

05 Dec 2024

Could Montreal riots bring down Justin Trudeau? Anti-Israel protests have morphed into something more politically damaging

26 Nov 2024

Is Josh Shapiro the American Disraeli?

22 Nov 2024

Canadians aren’t buying Justin Trudeau’s immigration promises The population has grown tired of the PM's U-turns

19 Nov 2024

MAGA must be reborn

07 Nov 2024

Mark Zuckerberg wants to be Caesar

31 Oct 2024

Will Tony Hinchcliffe’s Puerto Rico joke flip Latino voters? The comedian's New York set may ending up hurting Trump

29 Oct 2024

Justin Trudeau’s immigration U-turn is too little, too late Canadian voters won't forget the Prime Minister's previously lax policies

27 Oct 2024

American capitalism is fatally flawed

21 Oct 2024

Justin Trudeau faces Liberal Party mutiny MPs have increasingly lost faith in their leader

14 Oct 2024

Gavin Newsom is pivoting to the Right on immigration California's Governor is taking his cue from Kamala Harris

30 Sep 2024

Can Trump flip the unions?

25 Sep 2024

Can Kamala become the Border Czar?

20 Sep 2024

Justin Trudeau is on the ropes in Quebec The Canadian PM is faltering just as Mark Carney waits in the wings

17 Sep 2024

Justin Trudeau has lost the Canadian Left NDP leader Jagmeet Singh accused the ruling party of being 'weak' and 'selfish'

08 Sep 2024

Canada’s Enoch Powell moment

06 Sep 2024

The case for a long reset with Russia

29 Aug 2024

Is Obama the reason Democrats are now ‘underdogs’? He was responsible for turning the party into the home of college-educated elites

21 Aug 2024

The Republicans’ weird problem predates Vance

16 Aug 2024

Republican ‘stolen valour’ jibe won’t hurt Tim Walz Military experience is not as valued in the US as it once was

09 Aug 2024

Pro-Palestine attacks on Josh Shapiro bolster his appeal Progressives are fuelling the Pennsylvania governor's popularity with moderates

02 Aug 2024

Welcome to the Taxi Driver election

31 Jul 2024

What America can learn from 1924

18 Jul 2024

The Trump shooting conspiracy theories have already begun Americans of all stripes are conditioned to think in terms of plots and cabals

14 Jul 2024

The case for a millennial president

11 Jul 2024

The anti-Biden campaign is spreading to the Senate Mark Warner could become the President's Brutus

08 Jul 2024

Donald Trump never bought into Project 2025 The policy document was too libertarian for the ex-president

06 Jul 2024

Justin Trudeau’s party suffers shock defeat in Toronto Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives captured a Liberal stronghold last night

25 Jun 2024

What nationalists could learn from Quebec

24 Jun 2024

What Farage can learn from Canada’s Reform

18 Jun 2024

It’s D-Day for modern masculinity

06 Jun 2024

Is Mark Carney eyeing Trudeau’s throne?

21 May 2024

Why America needs a monarchy

10 May 2024

The enlightened case for being selfish

22 Apr 2024

Canada’s long restoration has begun

16 Apr 2024

Allies distance themselves from Justin Trudeau over climate plan The Canadian PM's brand is turning toxic

29 Mar 2024

Car dealers will decide America’s future

28 Mar 2024

AOC’s Green New Deal proposal will hurt the working class Her idea of environmental justice better serves elite Democrats than the poor

22 Mar 2024

The bug in Sam Altman’s industrial revolution

21 Mar 2024

Russell Vought: America’s false Christian Nationalist King

28 Feb 2024

Are Canada’s Conservatives adopting a MAGA approach to foreign policy? Pierre Poilievre is moving in an isolationist direction

20 Feb 2024

John Podesta: the Democrat dictator of reason

13 Feb 2024

Canada’s immigration backlash is far from populist

01 Feb 2024

Dean Phillips: America’s first AI candidate

25 Jan 2024

Henry Kissinger was America’s last Wise Man The final remnant of the Old Establishment has died

30 Nov 2023

Why is it so hard for the American Left to condemn Hamas? Certain members of the Squad are bringing their party into disrepute

12 Oct 2023

How American liberals can win

20 Sep 2023

Farewell Mitt Romney, last of the country club Republicans The retiring Utah senator was caught between tradition and radicalism

14 Sep 2023

Peter Navarro: the tragic prophet of Trumpism

13 Sep 2023

Trump colluded with the Swamp

22 Aug 2023

The Trump-Murdoch feud won’t last long The pair need each other more than they care to admit

21 Aug 2023

Canada’s cynical immigration racket

04 Aug 2023

The Republican Party belongs to Paul Ryan — not Donald Trump Tax cuts and austerity measures remain the GOP's main priority

19 Jun 2023

RFK Jr could learn from his father

05 Jun 2023

Is Canada’s west looking to break free from Justin Trudeau? A conservative victory in Alberta lays the groundwork for separation

31 May 2023

The truth about Musk’s X app

18 May 2023

Joe Biden must out-Trump Trump on the border issue Weak immigration policies won't win votes next year

04 May 2023

Tucker Carlson’s fake populism

20 Mar 2023

Did Trudeau ignore China’s meddling?

10 Mar 2023

The empty words of Ron DeSantis

28 Feb 2023

Nikki Haley’s neocon pantomime

16 Feb 2023

Hunter Biden and the curse of the failson

08 Feb 2023

Is George Santos a Machiavellian prince?

27 Jan 2023

Biden can win on immigration

01 Dec 2022

Why Canadian liberals cling on to monarchy

15 Sep 2022

Why Canada’s truckers will lose

02 Feb 2022