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Canada: Political Violence

Robin Koerner - September 12, 2020. Published in Le Devoir

[I]f you ever wondered what state fascism is all about, you just have to look at what's going on in the White House.

Colombia: Words Matter, Even When Politicians Say Otherwise

Patricia Simoni - August 19, 2019. Published in El Espectador

If we no longer have a common language to understand each other, there is only confusion and, of course, irrational anger.

Canada: Rush to Judgment on Covington School Standoff Should Be a Wake-Up Call for Media

Rejeanne Lacroix - January 22, 2019. Published in CBC

Germany: US Midterms — a Battle over Principle, Not Facts

Rejeanne Lacroix - November 5, 2018. Published in Deutsche Welle

Canada: The Sad Truth: Giuliani’s Bluster Defines Trump’s Reality-Denying Presidency

Rejeanne Lacroix - August 26, 2018. Published in The Globe and Mail

We all know Mr. Trump is shameless. Far worse is the fact that his remaining supporters remain so shameful. Truth will out.

Canada: The Descent of Rudy Giuliani Is a Mirror on All the Madness

Rejeanne Lacroix - August 21, 2018. Published in The Globe and Mail

Truth has become an ever-shifting target. Words are ghosts. Reality is without foundation. It’s whatever your Nutri Blender makes of it.

Canada: How ‘Post-Truth’ Left-Wingers Created the Very Presidency They Hate

Rejeanne Lacroix - July 18, 2018. Published in National Post

Unmoored from a conventional, common understanding of what constitutes truth, Americans had become dangerously susceptible to demagoguery, hysteria, and even subversion by a foreign power.

Australia: Truth and Post-Truth Appear To Be on Brink of Collision in Trump Saga

Rejeanne Lacroix - May 18, 2018. Published in The Sydney Morning Herald

Finally, and perhaps most unnervingly for Trump, it is simply not possible to know what evidence Mueller and his team of investigators have gathered because in a capital that is awash with leaks his is the only office that has proved to be watertight.