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Francis Wilkinson

New York

Opinion Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion

Current Bloomberg columnist and former Twitter user . @francisdwilkinson at threads. @[email protected] at Mastodon.

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Articles

  • Immigrants Rebuilt a Pennsylvania Town — Then Became Targets

    6 days ago | bloomberg.com | Francis Wilkinson

    A plea. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- Larry Celaschi summons me to look at his cell phone, which displays a photo of a truck. The picture, which someone shared with Celaschi, features the awkward angle and hazy resolution of amateur surveillance. It depicts Black people loading a U-Haul with household belongings. We are standing on the sidewalk near the McDonald’s on McKean Avenue in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, a small town on the Monongahela River, about 30 miles south of Pittsburgh.

  • How a School in a Tiny, New York Town Beat ICE

    1 month ago | bloomberg.com | Francis Wilkinson

    Not the final word. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- When the school board, or most of it, met for its regularly scheduled session on April 15, Sackets Harbor was still a feel-good story. Three immigrant students at the tiny upstate New York public school had been apprehended on March 27 in a raid of a local farm. They were shipped with their mother to a detention center in Texas.

  • Canadians are extremely confused right now

    2 months ago | butlereagle.com | Francis Wilkinson

    I thought they might be angry. Over the past quarter century, I’ve spent big chunks of time in Canada — Montreal and Toronto on occasion, but mostly Vancouver and the South Shore of Nova Scotia. Vancouver is beautiful, but Nova Scotia has a unique hold on me; for a few years my wife and I owned a 200-year-old cottage there. So I was curious how we would be greeted on a return trip this month after President Donald Trump’s twin assaults on Canada’s economy and sovereignty.

  • Trump Attacks on Universities Aren't Really About DEI or Antisemitism

    2 months ago | bloomberg.com | Francis Wilkinson

    The headlines at the Chronicle of Higher Education, the trade news for academia, read like dispatches from the front:“‘We’re in the Midst of an Authoritarian Takeover’”

  • Wilkinson: Canadians are mystified - and angry

    2 months ago | pressdemocrat.com | Francis Wilkinson

    I thought they might be angry. Over the past quarter century, I’ve spent big chunks of time in Canada — Montreal and Toronto on occasion, but mostly Vancouver and the South Shore of Nova Scotia. Vancouver is beautiful, but Nova Scotia has a unique hold on me; for a few years my wife and I owned a 200-year-old cottage there. So I was curious how we would be greeted on a return trip this month after President Donald Trump’s twin assaults on Canada’s economy and sovereignty.

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