★ Homes: A Refugee Story

Homes: A Refugee Story is the heart-rending account of Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, an Iraqi-born boy who as a child survived the civil war in Syria. Now a high-school student in Edmonton, his story is ... Read More »

June 4, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

Growing Pains: The Future of Democracy (and Work)

By Gwynne Dyer

Two seismic political events shook the world in 2016, confounding pollsters and pundits and jarring politicians and citizens alike. The first was the Brexit vote in the U.K.; the second was the election of Donald ... Read More »

May 29, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

By Daniel Heath Justice

Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you’ve no doubt encountered ongoing public conversations about Indigenous writing and storytelling. What is it? Whom should we read? And perhaps the most contentious debate: who gets to ... Read More »

May 3, 2018 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs

★ Boys: What It Means to Become a Man

By Rachel Giese

Will boys be boys? In the face of rising feminist visibility and the concomitant backlash against it, what it means to grow up male is increasingly under interrogation. Boys: What It Means to Become a ... Read More »

April 30, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

Why Young Men: Rage, Race and the Crisis of Identity

By Jamil Jivani

April 30, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Unceasing Storm: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

By Katherine Luo

In 1966, Mao Zedong unleashed the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Estimates suggest that between one and three million people died over the course of 10 years under Mao’s repressive regime. Katherine Luo was sent to a ... Read More »

April 23, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

The Age of Voter Rage

By Nik Nanos

April 13, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense

By Marcello Di Cintio

Earlier this year, Virgin Atlantic removed a word from its in-flight menu and apologized for any offence it may have caused after some passengers threatened to boycott the airline. The offending word? Palestinian. It was ... Read More »

April 12, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Putting Trials on Trial: Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession

By Elaine Craig

Sexual assault victims contemplate the legal system with foreboding, their instincts for self-preservation sharpened by the experience of sexual assault itself. The punishing cross-examinations of victims in sexual assault trials are well known. Progressive changes ... Read More »

March 1, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic

By David Frum

David Frum is a conservative. He has been affiliated with both the right-wing U.K. think tank Policy Exchange and the American Enterprise Institute, and was a senior adviser to former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani ... Read More »

February 12, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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