Readings

With the Conservative government so determined to push through the approval of new oil pipelines, and the country's fragmented political landscape much in their favour, an environmental campaigner wonders if it's possible to mount an effective opposition in time to stop them.

Our silly, irrational, and absolutely necessary preoccupation with the best-case scenario.

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.

A victim of tradition; a secret genius.

Online, door-to-door: a hustle's a hustle, says a woman who knows.