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Month: January 2017

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Society

The Refugee ‘Welcome Kit’ Nods to a Kinder Canada—and a Harsher World

January 31, 2017April 2, 2020 - by Kamal Al-Solaylee

Parkas, art, and our Charter of Rights and Freedoms embody an aspirational vision for our country

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Photo by Karl-Ludwig Poggemann
Politics

Lessons from a Hateful Weekend

January 30, 2017November 11, 2019 - by Jonathan Kay

Our spirit of tolerance must be able to withstand the waves of fear generated by terrorism and Islamophobia

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Society

How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Doomsday Clock

January 27, 2017January 23, 2020 - by Alex Tesar

Is our current apocalyptic thinking rational, or just a glitch of our brains?

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Politics

How Trump Conquered the Christian Right

January 27, 2017November 11, 2019 - by Michael Coren

White evangelicals have fallen in a love with a thrice-married adulterer and blasphemer

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Photograph by Allyson Neville-Morgan
Politics

What Americans Can Learn from Assad

January 27, 2017July 16, 2019 - by Samia Madwar

I’ve lived through both dictatorship and democracy. Here’s what I find more worrying than Trump

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The Walrus / Arndt Vladimir
Justice

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Part 6

January 26, 2017November 11, 2019 - by Ann Brocklehurst

Evidence, credibility, and doubt—appealing a sexual assault conviction

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Mary Tyler Moore Defined TV Feminism for All Who Followed

January 26, 2017November 11, 2019 - by Barbara Kay

Her landmark show captured the spirit of feminism at its happy, confident apex in the 1970s—a far cry from today’s darker, sexualized fare

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Politics

This American Carnage

January 25, 2017April 2, 2020 - by Stephen Marche

On Friday, I watched America collapse into hysteria and tribalism. On Saturday, I watched ordinary Americans start putting their country back together again

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Arts & Culture

Poetry Should Talk Honestly About Money

January 25, 2017April 23, 2020 - by Aaron Giovannone

Poets rarely address their own economic situation. That needs to change

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Photo by Gage Skidmore
Health

Narcissistic Personality Disorder Comes to Washington

January 24, 2017November 11, 2019 - by Felix Vikhman

A psychotherapist warns of the human wreckage that men such as Donald Trump leave in their wake

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