Feature | The Walrus

At fifty-one, Dion is wrapping up her Vegas residency with a world tour, an album, and two movies in the works. Why has it taken forty years for the world’s most talented singer to finally become cool?

Feature / Society

An Oral History of Whale Cove

June 21, 2019July 23, 2019 - by Suzie Napayok-Short

Six Inuit tell the story of their families’ forced relocations to an unfamiliar land—and how they came to call the place home

Cover Story / June 2019 / Society

The Rise of Junk Science

May 27, 2019July 9, 2019 - by Alex Gillis

Fake publications are corrupting the world of research—and influencing real news

Cover Story / March 2019

Is the World Getting Better or Worse?

February 6, 2019July 8, 2019 - by Bruce Mau

We are now faced with a choice: return to old patterns or take a leap into a radical and uncertain future

Cover Story / Environment / November 2018

People vs the Planet

October 15, 2018July 10, 2019 - by Edward Burtynsky

In the Anthropocene, the argument that deforestation’s economic benefits overrule its environmental impact no longer holds weight

Cover Story / Education / October 2018

Who Gets to Be Gifted?

September 19, 2018July 8, 2019 - by Katrina Onstad

Kids in the gifted program are disproportionately white and affluent. How streaming became another form of segregation

Cover Story / Opioids: A Public Health Crisis / September 2018

My Life and Death on Opioids

August 23, 2018July 8, 2019 - by Chris Willie

In November 2017, The Walrus started working with Chris Willie on a memoir about his fentanyl addiction. While writing the article, Willie died from an overdose. This version of his story is published with his family’s approval