Dan Gluibizzi It is a truism that America has become a more diverse country. It is also a beautiful thing to watch. Visitors from other countries, particularly those having trouble incorporating different ethnic groups and faiths, are amazed that we manage to pull it off. Not perfectly, of course,…

This article is part of The Critique’s May/June 2016 Issue “ Black Lives Matter (Part II): Understanding The New Movement For Racial Justice ”. T a-Nehisi Coates’ “ The Case for Reparations ” first appeared in The Atlantic in June 2014, and it deservedly continues to be widely shared and discussed.…

Illustration by Nathalie Lees T he events that led to Donald Trump’s election started in England in 1975. At a meeting a few months after Margaret Thatcher became leader of the Conservative party, one of her colleagues, or so the story goes, was explaining what he saw as the core beliefs of…

Donald Trump’s abrupt agreement to a settlement in the Trump University fraud cases was clearly an effort to prevent a major embarrassment. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY BEBETO MATTHEWS / AP PHOTO Give Donald Trump one thing: He’s mastered the political art of diverting attention from damaging news stories.…

The morning after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, Barack Obama summoned staff members to the Oval Office. Some were fairly junior and had never been in the room before. They were sombre, hollowed out, some fighting tears, humiliated by the defeat, fearful of autocracy’s…

Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 United States Presidential Election. There is a substantial portion of the U.S. population—including supporters of both candidates—who did not think this outcome was even remotely possible. For many who supported Trump, his victory is a glorious…