Neil Macdonald
THE AMERICAS
- The blueprint for Forward Base America
- June 11, 2008
- George W. Bush and the press secretary he deserves
- May 29, 2008
- Is Obama anti-Israel? Not as he sees it
- May 16, 2008
- Buyer's remorse? Are Democrats abandoning Obama?
- May 2, 2008
- Iraq: You broke it, now you own it
- April 11, 2008
- Indebted America keeps packing on the plastic
- April 7, 2008
- Religion and American politics
- April 1, 2008
- Surely we can't have Americans spending responsibly
- March 25, 2008
- U.S.: Divided we stand
- March 20, 2008
- Anatomy of a leak: What we know about NAFTA-gate
- March 10, 2008
- Going to pot: Conflicting U.S. marijuana laws a simmering volcano
- February 26, 2008
- The tribal call of U.S. politics
- February 14, 2008
- Lessons on debt from George W. Bush
- January 23, 2008
- Barack Obama and the illusion of change
- January 14, 2008
- Waiting for God in a Haitian orphanage
- December 18, 2007
- America's new enemy: The guys who cut the lawns
- December 14, 2007
- Want a cheaper car? Sorry, you're Canadian
- December 7, 2007
- The real 'facts on the ground' in the Middle East
- November 28, 2007
- The missing peace in the Middle East puzzle
- November 21, 2007
- The catered life of the American consumer
- November 14, 2007
- Might we make executions more civilized, please?
- November 7, 2007
- When is torture not torture?
- October 23, 2007
- Presidential piety
- October 15, 2007
- Canada's nasty reputation
- October 3, 2007
- Sex and politics in America's public lavatories
- Sept. 25, 2007
- The U.S. lending fiasco: 'Fraud on a spectacular scale'
- Sept. 20, 2007
- Whatever happened to 'The War on Terror'
- Sept. 11, 2007
- On American decency
- April 16, 2007
- Sanctuary, for some only, on a Florida beach
- April 9, 2007
- Washington's reluctance to pay the piper
- March 3, 2007
- Exceptions are U.S.
- February 22, 2007
- Baksheesh and the mystery of the shrink-wrapped billions
- February 14, 2007
- A wicked sense of freedom
- February 6, 2007
- Neil Macdonald on the anatomy of a smear job
- January 23, 2007
- Saying goodbye at Fort Stewart, Ga.
- January 19, 2007
- Handicapping the presidential hopefuls
- January 5, 2007
- Hailing the chief
- Dec. 19, 2006
- Debating the n-word in the U.S. of A.
- Dec. 9, 2006
- Bush's new Middle East hasn't worked out
- Dec. 7, 2006
- Archive
- Older entries from Neil Macdonald
ABOUT THIS AUTHOR
Biography
A 19-year veteran of CBC Television News, Neil Macdonald is currently The National's Washington correspondent. Macdonald joined CBC News in 1988. He was initially assigned to Parliament Hill, where, between Southam newspapers and THE NATIONAL, he would spend a combined total of a decade covering Parliament, reporting on five federal elections, and covering six prime ministers. Macdonald then reported from the Middle East for five years. Macdonald took up his post in Washington in March 2003. He speaks English and French fluently, and Arabic conversationally.
