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To anyone following politics recently in British Columbia, it sounds familiar: An alliance of Liberals and Conservatives collapses, and then a botched attempt to thwart the left wing ends up elevating a moribund party. That was the 1952 election in the province, though it could just as easily describe next …

The Modern Love column debuted 20 years ago this month — on Halloween, scarily enough — with a story by a lifelong bachelor, Steve Friedman, who was trying to feel OK about being dumped. He wrote: “She dumped me. What’s important are not the details but the pronoun placement, ‘she’ …

Since the start of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon last month, debate has swirled regarding the wisdom of Israel’s two-front strategy amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza, the threat that the fight against Hezbollah poses to civilians and the risk it could ignite a regional war with Iran. But perhaps even …