The Sunday Edition for July 26, 2020

Listen to this week's episode with guest-host Elamin Abdelmahmoud:

How Anne Applebaum's former friends became her populist adversaries: Atlantic magazine columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum reflects on how many of her former friends shifted further and further to the right as populism surged across the Western world. Her new book Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism explores the people behind the politicians, as Applebaum knew them, before and during the rise of the far right in Eastern Europe, the UK and the United States.

Why Kingston, Ont., is a rare pandemic success story: Mounting deaths in long-term-care homes, galloping cases of COVID-19 in prisons, young people partying with abandon — the public health nightmares of the pandemic were not realized in Kingston, Ontario. They have had few cases of COVID and no deaths, even though it is a city with long-term-care facilities, a large university campus and nine prisons in the region. Kieran Moore, the local medical officer of public health and the key architect of Kingston's pandemic plan, tells us how they pulled it off.

The long, lovely view of Thelma Pepper (reprise): She didn't pick up a camera till she was 60, but since then, she's taken thousands of striking portraits. At 100, she's still passionate about photography, creativity and the beauty and strength of ordinary people - on Saskatchewan's backroads and in nursing homes. David Gutnick's documentary profile of Thelma Pepper is called, "These Women Live On."

Elamin Abdelmahmoud is the co-host of the CBC podcast Party Lines. He is a curation editor for BuzzFeed News and the social media editor for BuzzFeed Canada. He is a regular current affairs panelist for CBC News and his work has appeared in Maclean's magazine, the Globe and Mail and The Guardian. His debut collection of essays, Son of Elsewhere, will be available Fall 2020.