Canadian Electoral Reform Was Never Going to Happen
Our first-past-the-post system doesn’t need to be fixed
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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 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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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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It Was a Crass Speech. But What Did Anyone Expect?
Obama gave us improvisations full of scripture and poetry. Trump told us that “America will start winning again”
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Marching in the Midst
I have listened from the verge in fear and shame for too long
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Measuring the Decline of Democracy
To know if our political structure is at risk—at home and abroad—we need data, not anecdotes
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A Role Model Leaves the White House
Forget politics. Forget race. Forget partisanship. Barack Obama taught us how to be better human beings
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Why I’m Cheering for Donald Trump
The United States is experiencing the Rob Ford Effect, writ large
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