Liberals to Make Database of Racial Minorities to Hire for Government Jobs

The contract requires prospective service providers to “identify candidates who reflect Canada’s diversity” and update the database at least every two months.

How Aztecs Told History

For the warriors and wanderers who became the Aztec people, truth was not singular and history was braided from many voices.

The Folly of Green Economics

Toronto's future ambulance fleet is just a small illustration of what passes for green economics.

How Chekhov Invented the Modern Short Story

The Russian writer’s tales of stasis, uncertainty and irresolution determined the path of 20th-century fiction.

Prediction

Shooting in Kenosha just the beginning of civil war in America.

The Whiteness Problem of White Wine

Wine isn’t diverse enough.

The User Always Loses

How did the Internet get so bad?

It’s Time to Abolish Nursing Homes

If three out of four Americans want to spend their final years at home, why do so many of us end up in institutional care?

Optimal Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches

How to do it.

‘The Sea and Sky Decide What They Will Allow’

Of Arctic explorers.

Accumulation and Its Discontents

Whether collecting, storing or hoarding, we’ve always had our issues with stuff – not least deciding what’s worth having.

They Are Living in a Failed State

The coronavirus didn’t break America. It revealed what was already broken.