In pandering to her party's base and the xenophobic sensibilities of some voters, Pauline Marois envisions a Quebec that has hardly ever existed. She may not be so different from Stephen Harper after all.
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Political parties and social movements rarely make good bedfellows, the former more likely to co-opt than cooperate with the latter. From the Arab Spring to the Quebec student strikes, and the Occupy movement's fraught relationship with the Democratic Party, it's time to start asking whether the competing motives of parties and movements can ever be reconciled.
It's been an odd and at times ugly journey to this week's 2012 Republican National Convention in St. Petersburg. Looking to unseat America's first black president, the party has played a dangerous game with race and gender politics. Hazlitt speaks with Danielle McGuire, an historian of the civil rights movement, about her take on the unprecedented divisiveness of this year's campaign.
The first in a series of chats with Calvin Trillin, the man who—among many other things—casts the U.S. presidential campaign in iambic pentameter.
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