longreads

Efforts to fix Afghanistan have been a colossal disappointment. 2016 will be its make-or-break year.

The province’s economy is in free fall, it has more deaths than births and an ugly language war to rival Quebec’s

Donald Trump doesn’t just admire Vladimir Putin, he emulates him. What this tells us about the Donald’s rise and how he’d rule.

Mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus are expected to infect up to four million people across the Americas. And there’s no cure—nor an end in sight.

Have consumers hit their limit for buying furniture, as one Ikea executive recently claimed? Don’t bet on it. Ikea sure isn’t.

How La Loche happened and what it says about Canada’s shocking neglect of First Nations in the North

They hog lanes, ignore emergency vehicles, and treat their cars like multi-tasking way stations. That culture of entitlement makes drivers a new kind of menace.

Why a growing number of extremists are lashing out publicly at Muslim immigrants—and Justin Trudeau

His political rise has been remarkable, and implausible—and Donald Trump might just yet win

As the price of crude plunges, and drags the loonie with it, the pain stretches far beyond the Alberta oil patch. What’s next for Canada’s economy?