Jun 18 2014
| Phones the size of Pop Tarts or single-serving styrofoam trays seem to be everywhere these days. Are phablets the ideal mobile computer for a generation that talks with their thumbs?
Jun 18 2014
| The new hotline that sends automated bell hooks quotes to aggressive men demanding women's phone numbers is getting rave reviews. But what does it mean for framings of consent and rape culture?
Jun 17 2014
| After the departure of a few tyrants, did real change come to Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen or Iraq? Despite claims to democracy, it seems the West prefers security and stability in the Arab world.
Jun 17 2014
| The European radical left of the 21st century has the task of setting a new agenda, and challenging the dominant political language, which the social democratic left has failed to do.
Jun 16 2014
| Canadians have been sold a bill of goods about there "being no alternative" to small, mean, punitive and arrogant government. Kathleen Wynne has the opportunity to take a different path.
Jun 16 2014
| The message of the downgrade in oil claims is that there's no easy fossil-fuel route out of the energy crunch, and even if there seems to be one, it's at the cost of ignoring climate degradation.
Jun 13 2014
| Tens of thousands of unaccompanied children from Central America and Mexico are pouring across the southern border of the United States, expanding the crisis of the U.S.'s broken immigration system.
Jun 13 2014
| At 52.1 per cent, the percentage of voters who cast a ballot in the 2014 Ontario election is up from the province's 2011 historic low of 48 per cent. How does it fit into voter turnout across Canada?
Jun 13 2014
| The leaders who gathered in Normandy a week ago for D-Day's 70th anniversary missed the point. Military heroism is rarely as straightforward as on D-Day.
Jun 13 2014
| Whether you liken Andrea Horwath's 2014 campaign to the Iraq invasion, Custer's Last Stand, or the Charge of the Policy-Light Brigade, it ended, predictably, in confusion and slaughter.
Jun 12 2014
| Through its response to the math debacle, the PC leadership revealed its colours: a group that puts ideology ahead of evidence, and that will let nothing distract from a wedge strategy to win office.
Jun 12 2014
| Tim Hudak's folksy persona has tended to obscure two key things -- he remains committed to anti-union legislation borrowed from Arkansas and he is capable of a cynical dishonesty that is breathtaking.
Jun 12 2014
| Last week, the U.S. announced a plan to cut carbon emissions from power plants 25 per cent from 2005 levels by 2020. It's an important step, but what does it mean for the fight against climate change?
Jun 11 2014
| What's the future of magazines in a digital age? One thing is clear: the magazines that really want to survive understand they're in a business that puts out a magazine and a lot more.
Jun 10 2014
| In its current version the European extreme right represents the Europe of peoples, not the Europe of democracies. The threat it poses is serious because European democracy is weak and getting weaker.
