June 2024 | The Walrus

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A photograph of the poet, a man with his chin in his hand and looking toward the right of the frame, against a periwinkle-blue background.

June 2024 / Poetry

Recess

June 7, 2024 - by David O'Meara

Beyond hopscotch chalked-out boxes, / gravel started, then a diamond

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Two cartoon sketches of Justin Trudeau

Made You Look: The Power of Great Magazine Covers

May 24, 2024May 24, 2024 - by Carmine Starnino

Provocative design is still one of the best ways to slice through the digital noise

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Against a bright green background, a cork pops from an exploding bottle of cola

Arts & Culture / June 2024

My Guilty Pleasure Is My Old Friend, Diet Pepsi

May 10, 2024May 15, 2024 - by Mireille Silcoff

The first can I drank was exhilarating—it tasted like seventeen!

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A blue figures walks up red stairs as a series of yellow figures piled up on another to reach a higher step

June 2024 / Society

How Workplace Diversity Fails Indigenous Employees

April 30, 2024April 30, 2024 - by Michelle Cyca

What began with optimism and enthusiasm has curdled into exploitation

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An online producer talks to an older man selling shoes on the street in Kabul

June 2024 / Media

Why the Taliban Love Social Media

April 24, 2024April 24, 2024 - by Soraya Amiri

The extremist group’s strategy to normalize its rule in Afghanistan

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In an illustration, a farmer sitting on a fence looks at an iPad as a tractors and several drones fly over a field

June 2024 / Technology

Old Macdonald Had a Drone: Inside Farming’s Tech Boom

April 22, 2024April 22, 2024 - by Emily Baron Cadloff

Farmers are struggling to compete against larger operations. Is automation the answer?

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An illustration of four grey soldiers with blue and yellow Ukrainian flags on their sleeves line up; a fifth soldier appears only as a silhouette.

June 2024 / World

The Ukrainians Who Refuse to Fight

April 16, 2024April 16, 2024 - by Jonathan Garfinkel

The government put in place a martial order that restricted some people from leaving the country. This is the story of how one family fled

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