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Karl Rove was wrong: Creating your own reality is not just dangerous; it’s ultimately futile.
Experts say there’s “no substitute” for the Bird Banding Laboratory or the Breeding Bird Survey, which help reveal the health and status of avian populations across the country.
Even on a day in which he celebrated a genuine success, Donald Trump can’t help being totally weird.
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Donald Trump is plunging the country, and the world, from one crisis to the next, and his cabinet, which was chosen for reasons unrelated to competence, is ill-equipped to handle any of them.
Dictators can only do their evil deeds if they can count on enough henchmen to do their bidding. But what happens if they stop going along to end up on the right side of history?
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Peter Thiel’s Palantir epitomizes the potential perversion of miraculous technology to nefarious purposes.
Iran is offering some pretty flimsy excuses to explain how dozens of people were injured in a missile attack that hit a hospital… and Israel is not buying them.
To get more Americans to pay attention to how the Trump administration is trying to turn the US into a police state, the media needs to do a better job of describing the actions of masked ICE goons.