Tag: Donald Trump
On tribes and better conversations
In the age of Trump and Brexit, and in a time when topics like
immigration, religion, and personal ethics give rise to strong emotional
reactions, conversations...
The threat of ISIS in a turbulent world
On October 27, U.S. President Donald Trump declared the death of ISIS
leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi after a U.S. military raid in northwest Syria.
Baghdadi had...
Stressed out: Politics can make you sick
Damaged friendships, ruined family
reunions, disrupted workplaces, the emotional toll of frustration, remorse,
anguish, and the physical burden of stress and loss of sleep; these are...
Fact-checking Trump and the Fords
UTM’s annual Snider Lecture was held
last Thursday, October 3, 2019. This year, the lecture featured CNN reporter
Daniel Dale who talked about the importance of...
In 2019, journalism is dead
It is early June 1971. Analyst Daniel
Ellsberg has leaked the Pentagon Papers, which detailed the history of United
States-Vietnam relations to a war-weary nation. As...
Sanctions complicating U.S.-Iran relations
On Saturday September 14, 2019, Yemen’s
Houthi rebels carried out drone attacks on two large Saudi oil facilities,
disrupting about half of Saudi Arabia’s oil capacity....
This year, make algorithms great again
As artificial intelligence seeps through from every corner, it also spills into news stories that have painted pictures of a subordinate human future where...
Read all about it: Journalism in 2018
Since Donald Trump won the race for the United States presidency in November of 2016, a debate has formed around whether it affected, and...
Tweeting towards collective action
Last weekend, thousands of people around the United States and the world paraded through the streets for the 2018 Women’s March. When the first...
A student’s guide to the NAFTA impasse
The North American Free Trade Agreement may have crossed your glance when browsing through headlines or while watching the news. After President Donald Trump’s...
Trump’s hatred unleashes support
This week, L’Oreal Paris starred a hijab-wearing model for a new hair campaign. The model, a British YouTuber and beauty blogger, Amena Khan, is...
Sanders discusses health care and power
United States Senator Bernie Sanders delivered a keynote address at the University of Toronto discussing the importance of universal healthcare and how American congress...