The political pancake breakfast is one of the longstanding traditions of the Calgary Stampede, Alberta's annual rodeo and fair. Members of the province's governing United Conservative Party hosted one on July 2, the day after Canada Day. The far-right premier of the province, Danielle Smith, kitted out in Lone Star cowboy boots, a Stetson hat and a Texas Longhorn bolo tie, popped in. It was hard not to read the outfit as a conscious nod to Canada's erstwhile friends south of the border, because President Trump, MAGA and the United States are unmistakable strands of the conversation in Alberta...

His program-both welfare cuts and new benefits-is a model of how to set aside partisanship to help kids.

By enraging, warping, and thereby emasculating the Democratic Party, Trump made it possible for Trumpism to outlast himself.