Almost 20 years ago, George W. Bush achieved electoral success by welcoming Christian evangelicals into the Republican tent alongside the party’s traditional business supporters, but he didn’t issue any invitations to white nationalists. Enter Donald Trump. In today’s The Conversation Canada, J.M. Opal, an American professor at McGill University, explains how Trump has staked the best location in U.S. politics by bringing together business elites, evangelicals – and white nationalists.

Another dubious Trump achievement is the subject of a sharp analysis today – the U.S. president has ushered in an era of incivility in politics and beyond. Jordan Richard Schoenherr of Carleton University makes a passionate call for a return to civility.

The ongoing NAFTA renegotiations pose a serious threat to a Canadian national pharmacare program, and could leave those Canadians who need expensive arthritis drugs particularly vulnerable. Joel Lexchin of the University of Toronto is back with another insightful piece on Canada's health-care system.

And finally, George Nicholas of Simon Fraser University has a hard-hitting analysis on how development projects are claiming Indigenous ancestral sites at alarming rates. He writes: “Colonialism robbed First Nations of much of their heritage. As a society today, we must support the restoration and protection of their cultural heritage beyond lip service.”

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