The Day the Impossible Became Possible: In Syria, the End of Two Eras
As the world processes the end of the Assad regime and the departure of its brutal dynastic scion, Bashar al-Assad...
Lisa Van Dusen
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Five Years After the Outbreak, Chaos is the New COVID
On December 1st, 2019, the first laboratory-confirmed case of SARS-CoV-2 was diagnosed in Wuhan, China. By December 8th, 41 people...
Trump, CUSMA, and Our Current Unpleasantness
You know that a story has all the makings of an economic-crisis catalyst when the Globe and Mail runs 1...
Back to the Future: The Predictable Return of Donald Trump
To anyone who has ever covered a U.S. presidential election, one of the most serious indications that the one that...
Your Presidential Election Gaslighting-to-English Translation Guide
While it may not necessarily seem like it now, with all the usual stylings of narrative warfare and performative propaganda...
An Extraordinary Debate for an Extraordinary Campaign
In the Before Times, when American politics had not yet been repurposed as aversion therapy for troublesome democracy romantics in...
Why ‘Freedom’ Matters: The Harris Campaign’s Double-Down on Democracy
On August 1st, as Vladimir Kara-Murza’s plane was lifting off from Moscow following a sequence of events he’d been sure...
Harris vs. Trump and the (Joyful) Revenge of Reality
Contrast is a key ingredient of any election campaign, and in US presidential campaigns is always especially pronounced. In a...
The Anti-Weird Choice: Why Harris Picked Walz
In an American presidential campaign that has already been unprecedented as a race in which the Republican candidate is a...
Why is this Woman Laughing? Kamala Harris, Seriously Happy Warrior
As a notorious fan of Venn diagrams, Kamala Harris has surely contemplated the Venn overlap that has framed her friendship...
Biden’s Parting Gift to Democrats: The Chance to Prove They’re the Sane Alternative
The momentousness of Joe Biden’s decision Sunday to withdraw from the 2024 presidential election was not lost on anyone. For...
Trump Guilty on All Counts: What Next, Order or Chaos?
With Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts by a Manhattan jury on Thursday, the election campaign in which Mr...
Narrative vs. ‘Narrative’ in the 2024 Presidential Campaign
As voting got underway for the 2024 Republican US presidential nomination amid the Iowan pathetic fallacy of suitably, brutally bitter...