March 2018
Featured Articles
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The collapse of Syria
The story of a nation’s unravelling, one neighbourhood at a time
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Acts like a lady, works like a dog
Life at the heights of the media glass cliff
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The Free-Trade Malaise
Vindication—and a change of heart—for a veteran contrarian who saw it coming

Cover and interior illustrations by Nicole Xu. Xu is a Canadian freelance illustrator working in Brooklyn. She has worked with publications such as the New York Times, NPR, the Globe and Mail, and the Washington Post. Besides drawing, she loves listening to podcasts and befriending neighbourhood dogs.
Illustration on page 8 by Melanie Lambrick. Lambrick is an illustrator based in Montreal, Quebec.
Her clients include the New York Times, Washington Post, Fortune magazine, and the BBC. When she isn’t drawing, Melanie is busy as a plant mother and cat mother, writing, and looking for ways to be outside.
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The collapse of Syria
The story of a nation’s unravelling, one neighbourhood at a time
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Acts like a lady, works like a dog
Life at the heights of the media glass cliff
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The Free-Trade Malaise
Vindication—and a change of heart—for a veteran contrarian who saw it coming
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Domestic Noir and the #MeToo Moment
Gone Girls and their sisters in a genre that capitalizes on women’s deepest fears
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Continental shifts
The many lives of Mario Vargas Llosa
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Has environmentalism failed?
David Suzuki in conversation with Graeme Wynn
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A nation’s phantom pain
A French-Algerian vision of reconciliation comes to post-150th Canada
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Altar ego
An iconoclastic scholar on the modern value of a very old-fashioned idea
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Flipped out
What magnetism’s mysteries mean (and don’t) for Earth
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Run, human, run
The “conceptual Swiss Army knife” of endurance
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Ours, not theirs
The nationalism that a bluesy bar band from eastern Ontario built