Five years after NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick 'took a knee' during the U.S. national anthem to protest police brutality against Black Americans, sports writer Dave Zirin explores how the gesture inspired thousands and gave rise of the historic Black Lives Matter movement.

In the latest instalment of our ongoing language segment Word Processing, The Atlantic's Marina Koren takes us on a ride through the origins and future of the word 'astronaut', as four people take a flight billed as a breakthrough for civilians in space.

On the eve of election day, columnists Niigaan Sinclair, Susan Delacourt and Jason Markusoff reflect on the campaign and what this election may reveal about Canada at this moment in time.

As the Taliban forms government in Afghanistan, journalist and author Ahmed Rashid explains who the leaders are, how they might govern and what role the rest of the world will play in the days and weeks ahead.

Author Jeff VanderMeer's new novel, Hummingbird Salamander, is a dark tale of environmental chaos set in an eerily familiar world, pandemic included. Despite the grim backdrop, VanderMeer holds out hope for our world. He tells Piya how activism drives his art and the inspiration he finds in his backyard.

Paul Nesbitt-Larking, a political psychologist at London, Ontario's Western University, says this federal election – more than any other in memory – will be fought and won on psychological terrain.

Arlo Parks was poised for a big career breakout one year ago, before the pandemic hit. But instead of a year playing music festivals, the 20-year-old British singer-songwriter found herself locked down, living at home in London with her parents. She speaks with Piya Chattopadhyay about the album that resulted – "Collapsed in Sunbeams" – which has become a pandemic soundtrack for fans around the world.

Afghan-American novelist Khaled Hosseini has brought depictions of life in Afghanistan to millions of readers around the world. In the wake of the Taliban takeover of his native country, he says that the United States has a moral obligation to take in “as many Afghan refugees as possible.”

What pushes a woman to a place that gets her labeled crazy, messy, depraved? Lisa Taddeo asks that in her debut novel, Animal. The Three Women author talks about women as anti-heroes, how rage can be useful in a bad situation, and why she shares her darkest moments.

As the world continues to grapple with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, columnists Susan Delacourt and Niigaan Sinclair weigh the merits of going to the polls – and explore how a government could address things weighing on Canadians' minds, from joblessness to reconciliation and climate change.