The Globe and Mail
Richard Poplak
Publishing · On our record since 2018
Where this writer stands
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“But hauling people off to Africa and leaving them in countries they can't pronounce? That's advanced, upgraded anti-immigrant sentiment, in which the meme-ified cruelty of MAGA is firmly embedded.” Read the piece
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Recent work
- Canada is becoming an outpost of everyone’s empireOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Oct 9, 2026
- Opinion: Africa has become the world’s dumping groundsOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Nov 20, 2025
- Opinion: Trump’s South Africa executive order shows that the age of racial grievance-settling has only just begunOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Feb 11, 2025
- Opinion: Jacob Zuma was once a king. Now he is now South Africa’s kingmakerOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Jun 5, 2024
- Opinion: What’s happening in the Middle East is war as spectacle. Viewer indiscretion is advisedOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Oct 19, 2023
- Opinion: Coups in Niger, Gabon and beyond signify the real end of France’s empire in AfricaOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Sep 14, 2023
- Opinion: How long can South Africa’s Putin fetish last?Opinion · The Globe and Mail · Jul 20, 2023
- Opinion: To save migrants in South Africa, South Africa itself has to be savedOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Jul 28, 2022
- Opinion: F.W. de Klerk was neither a liberal nor a reformer. But he was a pragmatistOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Nov 11, 2021
- Opinion: From Brexit to Donald Trump to COVID-19: How the influence industry has replaced politicsOpinion · The Globe and Mail · May 20, 2020
- Opinion: Canadian mining companies better start behaving, thanks to NevsunOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Mar 5, 2020
- Opinion: South Africa won on the rugby pitch, but the country is still losingOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Dec 6, 2019
- Export Development Canada is the Death Star in the Canadian economyOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Mar 7, 2018