Once upon a time, or how to talk to your children about Trump

This isn’t the first time in history that an American president has provided material for previously unthinkable parent-child conversations about politics. It is the first time a blanket disclaimer is in order.

Any explanations about the mystery that is Donald Trump should start with the palate-cleansing fact that he comes following the historic election of former U.S. president Barack Obama, writes Lisa Van Dusen. Photograph courtesy of Gage Skidmore

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

January 17, 2018

One of the challenges of living in a time when attacks on democratic integrity have produced outcomes that defy long-standing notions of electability and reason is finding the right words to explain political events to your children. There was a time when questions of how to talk about politics wit...

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