“These stories are a little unsettling. I intended them to be unsettling. In many of them, pleasure doesn’t turn out to be exactly what is expected.” Darker currents run through the ...

The residents of Ameliasburgh want to see their tax dollars put to use in Ameliasburgh.  All six candidates for the three ward seats on council, alongside the three mayoral contenders, had their ...

A Belleville synagogue could have been the scene of a massacre on Sunday, September 20th. On the scale of the largest Canadian shootings, such as the Montreal Massacre of December 6, 1989, when 14 wom...

Over 1400 racers from across the province experienced excruciating pain and unbridled joy at the biggest ever County Marathon.

Seven minor penalties against was too much to overcome for the Belleville Senators in their home opener.

“TIFF (the Toronto International Film Festival) was originally conceived as a kind of festival of festivals,” notes The Regent’s Executive Director John Galway, “and that&rsquo...

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An important jury trial has been underway in Los Angeles for weeks now but few know much about it. Not only must it compete with the global havoc of the Trump administration, no filming or recording i...

To celebrate Flashback February, our cover features Marsden Kemp’s Elm tree by Dr. Walmsley’s with two men standing by trunk (1907). This is just one of a series of photographs by Mr. Kemp that featur...

As the scandal around the release of the Epstein Files continues to follow Donald Trump, Peter Jukes investigates the late sex offender’s ties to Vladimir Putin-linked individuals with a curious caree...

Just about a century ago, on October 15, 1925, the Picton Gazette ran a short notice, FIERY CROSS BLAZED NEAR TOWN RESERVOIR. “The fiery cross denoting activity of the Ku Klux Klan blazed forth from t...

Rebel News, also known as Rebel Media, is an alt-right political commentary website. It has more than one million subscribers on YouTube, and promotes  an anti-Muslim ideology it calls “counter-jihad....

Once praised for his moral clarity, Bob Iger now faces questions of integrity after bowing to political pressure and suspending Jimmy Kimmel.

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This is the back half of the third part of our series (I, II, IIIa) discussing the patterns of life for the pre-modern peasants who made up the great majority of humans who lived in the past. Last …

The Supreme Court may extinguish a law that more than any other made the promise of American democracy a reality.

I suspect that history will record 2025 as an inflection point in American (if not world) history, the point at which the promise of a future rooted in universal access to knowledge collapsed under th...

Senate Democrats told the secretary of state they have "grave concerns" about the U.S. role in financing GHF, the main group distributing aid in Gaza.

Five Columbia University political scientists offer their unofficial response to the Trump administration's demands on their university.

A review of Ashley Deeks, “The Double Black Box: National Security, Artificial Intelligence, and Struggle for Democratic Accountability” (Oxford University Press, 2025)

Russian hackers are exploring ways to inject propaganda into the training data of generative AI models

Lawmakers voted for the BBB without reading it. Now, with nearly 12 million people at risk of losing health care coverage, the president wants voters to pay attention to his rhetoric and ignore the de...

A source close to the MAGA administration suggested the president’s “deals” are all theatrics.

Donald Trump is giving Vladimir Putin every incentive to keep killing Ukrainians.

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