The Refugee ‘Welcome Kit’ Nods to a Kinder Canada—and a Harsher World
Parkas, art, and our Charter of Rights and Freedoms embody an aspirational vision for our country
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Lessons from a Hateful Weekend
Our spirit of tolerance must be able to withstand the waves of fear generated by terrorism and Islamophobia
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How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Doomsday Clock
Is our current apocalyptic thinking rational, or just a glitch of our brains?
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How Trump Conquered the Christian Right
White evangelicals have fallen in a love with a thrice-married adulterer and blasphemer
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What Americans Can Learn from Assad
I’ve lived through both dictatorship and democracy. Here’s what I find more worrying than Trump
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Part 6
Evidence, credibility, and doubt—appealing a sexual assault conviction
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Mary Tyler Moore Defined TV Feminism for All Who Followed
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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This American Carnage
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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Poetry Should Talk Honestly About Money
Poets rarely address their own economic situation. That needs to change
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder Comes to Washington
A psychotherapist warns of the human wreckage that men such as Donald Trump leave in their wake
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