The Arithmetic of Common Ground
A short story about the remarkable unlikelihood that anyone finds a mate
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Meet the Facebook Group Trying to Reshape Politics
Ontario Proud has become enormously influential on social media. Critics say it’s partisan, even racist
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How I Learned to Love Bonsai
When my amateur attempts at the art weren’t working, I went to YouTube star Nigel Saunders
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When Is It Women’s Time to Speak?
In Miriam Toews’s new novel, women in an isolated Mennonite colony debate how to move forward in the aftermath of sexual assault
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The Cat Who Ate Like A Lion
Lessons of love and acceptance from the furriest member of the family
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Who Gets to Be Gifted?
Kids in the gifted program are disproportionately white and affluent. How streaming became another form of segregation
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Split Tooth
We pile our hair as high as it will go, even though the wind destroys our hairdos to the point that every time we come in from outside, the girls’ bathroom is a haze of Final Net
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Esi Edugyan Reimagines the Slave Narrative
In Washington Black, a black prodigy is trapped inside his historical era
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