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The Valentine’s Day Fatwa

February 12, 2015April 10, 2020 - by James D. Le Sueur

Since 1989, February 14 has been a dark anniversary for Salman Rushdie and everyone else who values freedom of expression

Film

Mocking the Men with Guns

February 12, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Adam Nayman

An acclaimed new movie from North Africa presents authoritarian Islamist guerrillas as cruel, radicalized, violent—and ridiculous

Politics

Think Inside the Box

February 4, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Marni Soupcoff

The government’s new security bill is designed to scrub “terrorist propaganda” from the Internet. It will also curtail freedom of thought

World

Keeping the Republic Together

January 16, 2015April 10, 2020 - by James D. Le Sueur

Modern France was created through the assimilation of agrarian serfs. In a post-colonial age, the task of integrating five million North African émigrés has proven to be a very different sort of project

Photography

Nous sommes Charlie

January 8, 2015September 24, 2020 - by Various artists

Illustrators draw support for their fallen comrades from Charlie Hebdo

Photograph of Toronto’s Charlie Hebdo vigil by Michael Fraiman

Society

Standing Up for Charlie Hebdo

January 8, 2015April 29, 2021 - by Michael Fraiman

Canadians respond to yesterday’s terror attack in Paris

December 2013 / Politics

The Empty Chair

November 11, 2013July 19, 2016 - by Brendan Brady

Harper boycotts the Commonwealth summit

October 2013 / World

Armed Drones

September 24, 2013July 7, 2016 - by Janice Gross Stein

In February 2002, the CIA sent an armed drone into Afghanistan’s Paktika province to target three men. The men killed turned out to be innocent villagers collecting scrap metal. One …