Issue 56|Winter / Spring 2025

Issue 56:

The Return of Donald Trump, hopeful change in Bangladesh and a BC squeaker in the Winter/Spring 2025 issue of Inroads.

Introduction

Culture

Introducing Inroads 56

The U.S. restores Donald Trump, Bangladesh deposes its corrupt leader and the BC NDP survives a close call in Issue 56 of Inroads

By Bob Chodos

International

The return of Donald Trump

In a special editorial section, Inroads editors grapple with what has happened and what is to come in the next four years

By Inroads Contributors

International

Tectonic shifts lie beneath Japan’s leadership change

Ishiba Shigeru hangs onto power, while Japan’s own iron lady waits in the wings

By Mark Crawford

International

Bangladesh’s moment of opportunity

Can Muhammad Yunus’s interim government break the cycle of corruption?

By John Richards

Economy

Taking on Tesla

Elon Musk may be able to sway American elections, but Swedish unions will not bend to his will

By German Bender

Columns

International

October 7, one year later

After Israel’s brief moment of unity in the face of horror, the hostages became a rallying point for the opposition

By Bob Chodos

Canada

British Columbia’s polarity shift

The insurgent BC Conservatives almost toppled the NDP by attracting working-class and immigrant voters

By Geoff Meggs

Canada

The polarity shift is global

The near-defeat of BC’s NDP government reflects broader trends

By Reg Whitaker

Canada

How did Saskatchewan politics get to be about nothing?

Where there were once fierce ideological debates, now the parties argue over small differences

By Dale Eisler

Reviews

By Robert Bockstael

Book Reviews

The politics of potash

Ideological opposition to public ownership limited the resource’s benefits to Saskatchewan

By John Richards

Poetry

Book Reviews

At the century’s quarter mark

With wars raging, demagogues in power and heat domes the norm, what new entrapments lie ahead?

By Bob Chodos

By Inroads Contributors

By Mark Crawford

By John Richards

By German Bender

By Bob Chodos

By Geoff Meggs

By Reg Whitaker

By Dale Eisler

By Anne Michèle Meggs

By Robert Bockstael

By John Richards

By Philip Resnick

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