A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on November 4, 2024. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto.

I watched a brief compilation video called “15 Completely Hazardous Mercury Experiments,” and then a video showing what ...

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However unusual their nominations, Buchanan and Fillmore together embodied the nineteenth-century political system as it had been for decades. In this respect they did not suit the temper of the ...

After losing their savings in the stock market crash of 2008, seniors Barb and Chuck find seasonal employment at Amazon fulfillment centers.

We often forget that the boundary between the United States and Mexico was not always where it is today. It used to be seven hundred miles farther north, following what… ...

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