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Vina Nadjibulla (Photograph by Eric Putz)

A promise to Michael

Vina Nadjibulla and other family members have been waging a seemingly impossible fight to free her husband from a Chinese prison. After two torturous years, what does Canada owe ‘the two Michaels’?
Trump supporters gather near the Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021 (Probal Rashid/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The end of the reality TV presidency

Adnan R. Khan: The storming of the Capitol by Trump’s clownish supporters was a fitting end to the Trump era. But the gravest threat to America lives on.
Police officers survey the damage and debris left on the Eastern steps of the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 7, 2021 in Washington, DC (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Accept it, this is America now

Shannon Gormley: Where the United States is today—in the midst of every waking nightmare anyone has ever had about a President Donald Trump
Greene, who has expressed support for the right-wing conspiracy group QAnon, leaves a press conference in a Humvee in Dallas, Ga., this month (Dustin Chambers/Getty Images)

A party gone mad

Adnan R. Khan: Federal politics appears to be rebalancing after Trump’s loss. But at the ground level, things look much bleaker for American democracy.