The Globe and Mail - Jeffrey Simpson Columns

North American roads will never be the same thanks to fuel-efficient fleets

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00 EDT

President Obama swept away years of lawsuits, political fights and jurisdictional rows by imposing new emission standards

North American roads will never be the same thanks to fuel-efficient fleets

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00 EDT

jsimpson@globeandmail.com Finally, after years of obstruction by the North American car companies and their political allies, serious auto emission restrictions are coming to the United States and Canada.

The road to Afghan victory runs through Pakistan

Sat, 16 May 2009 00:00 EDT

jsimpson@globeandmail.comThe Americans have finally figured out that ''success,'' however defined, in Afghanistan runs through Pakistan. How to be successful in Pakistan is another matter.Pakistan is an incredibly complicated country, and in many ways a broken, unsuccessful one. It lost part of itself in 1971 when East Pakistan seceded (with India's help) and became Bangladesh; it has done poorly in wars against India. It has never been able to establish durable democratic institutions, but has wobbled between dictatorship and unstable popular rule led by dynastic families. Even when democratically elected people have ruled, Pakistan has remained a sort of quasi-military state in which the military and intelligence services operate as mini-states within the state.

The road to Afghan victory runs through Pakistan

Fri, 15 May 2009 23:08 EDT

But will the new approach taken by the Obama administration work this time?

Conduct unbecoming

Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00 EDT

Hearing what Brian Mulroney says he was paid for strains credibility

Mulroney at the inquiry: How sad it should have come to this

Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00 EDT

An already challenged political legacy, now dragged through this miserable prism

Mulroney at the inquiry: How sad it should have come to this

Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00 EDT

jsimpson@globeandmail.comHe sticks to us still.Sixteen years after leaving the Prime Minister's Office, Brian Mulroney will not, or rather cannot, escape the limelight, in the worst possible circumstances for him.

With Britain's sagging economy go Labour's fortunes

Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00 EDT

The collapse has played into the hands of the opposition Conservatives - shades of Canada's Liberals

With Britain's sagging economy go Labour's fortunes

Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00 EDT

jsimpson@globeandmail.comThe Canadian economy is rocky, and Canadians will pay for today's extra spending with higher taxes, but comfort yourself mildly by casting a glance at Britain.