BooksDave Eggers returns to where the wild things are—family and natureDave Eggers’ exquisite new book finds him back to writing what he knows—though that isn’t necessarily a good thing
Need to knowSee if you’re smarter than one of Canada’s smartest people!Maclean’s Genius Peter Dyakowski scored 67 per cent on this week’s trivia test. Can you beat his score?
WashingtonAndrew Cuomo to the DNC: ’At stake is the soul of America’For the record, here’s what Andrew Cuomo said on Thursday at the Democratic National Convention
WashingtonThe sweetest night of Hillary Clinton’s political careerOn the final day of the DNC, Allen Abel crosses the Delaware to the home of Walt Whitman, the poet who once asked ’Who are you who would talk or sing to America?’
NewsWhy we can’t trust SIU to probe death of Abdirahman AbdiWe must wait quietly and respectfully for the SIU to produce all the facts into the death of Abdirahman Abdi, right? This is a tall order
CanadaIn Quebec, a cement factory encased in hypocrisyWhy did the Quebec government hand millions to an emission-belching, billionaire-owned cement factory?
Need to knowTalking Points: Of Pokemon and righting wrongsSpeed read the news with our Talking Points round-up—our short takes on the week’s news—and sound like the smartest person in the room.
WorldHow Turkey became a petri dish for Islamist politicsErdogan defeated his old rival, but in the process unleashed some radical forces. Here’s Adnan Khan on the war of the Islamists
SocietyThe forgotten Chinese labourers of the First World WarVast battalions of Chinese labourers were shipped through Canada to work on the front lines of Europe, many of them to their deaths
WashingtonBarack Obama appeals to the hope and optimism of 2004Addressing the 2016 Democratic Convention, Obama kept returning to the ideals of his 2004 speech in Boston