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Trump Is Serious about Greenland. What Does Carney Do?

C ore national leaders of the “Coalition of the Willing,” an assemblage of mostly NATO states (minus the US and Russian hangers-on like Hungary and...

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Wesley Wark

“I Know I’m Not Going to Win”: Why People Set Out on Impossible Quests

S he knew she wasn’t going to win. In fact, she often introduced herself this way: I’m Liz White, I’m running for office, and I know I’m not...

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Mark Medley

Weekly Quiz: Financial Literacy, Freeform Housing, and Falling Back to the Office

How closely have you been reading our online stories this week? Take The Walrus Weekly Quiz to find out—released every Saturday The post Weekly...

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Ketsia Beboua

Chrystia Freeland’s Very Strange Goodbye

T o say that Chrystia Freeland’s resignation on Wednesday—effective Friday, January 9—wasn’t as well timed and executed as her December 2024...

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Wendy Kaur

The Secret to Making Friends at University? Ask Introverts

I n my first year of high school, all of my friends lived in my phone. It was the first full school year affected by COVID-19, which meant we were...

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Abigail Mcghie

“It’s Not Something I’m Squeamish About”: Heated Rivalry Author on Writing Explicit Sex Scenes

R achel Reid is the bestselling author of the Game Changers hockey romance series that includes Heated Rivalry, the TV adaptation of which (by...

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Nathan Whitlock

The United States Has Now Gone Full Villain

I n March 1933, United States president Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his first inaugural address in the dismal depths of the Great Depression....

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Dan Gardner

How to Keep Your House Clean

L AST SUMMER, a friend was visiting from Australia. Our plan was to meet at my place at noon, and then he showed up thirty minutes ahead of...

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Courtney Shea

After Venezuela, the Unthinkable Enters Canadian Politics

W hen Hitler swallowed Czechoslovakia in 1938 and then divided Poland with Stalin in 1939, my parents’ generation decided, coming home from the...

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Michael Ignatieff