Trump’s China Headache
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View ArticleCan Harvey and Irma End Republican Climate Change Denial?
A fortnight ago, Hurricane Harvey became the third “500-year” flood to wreck Houston in three years. Though wary of diagnosing any single storm as a consequence of climate change, climatologists argue...
View ArticleTeam Trump’s Hostility Toward Science Is No Hoax
A picture says more than a thousand words — and sometimes it speaks volumes. That was the case when photographers captured Donald Trump looking at the sun without protective glasses during the recent...
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Highly Toxic Materials Are Leaking into Hurricane Flood Water
Superfund sites are defined by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as highly polluted areas requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous materials and contamination. Most came about due...
View ArticleDeciphering Turkey’s Coup
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View ArticleHow to Keep Safe after the Equifax Cybersecurity Breach
The recent Equifax cybersecurity breach, now the worst known cyberattack to date, changes everything for a huge number of Americans. Are you worried about how this affects you? You should be. The...
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The Murder of John Kennedy’s Mistress, Part 1
On October 12, 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer, a Washington socialite, went for her usual jog along the Potomac River in a fairly deserted section of Washington DC and, for no apparent reason, she was shot...
View ArticleBannon Strikes Back
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Virginia Says “No” to Touchscreen Voting
For years, cyber security experts and voting advocates have pleaded with election officials to purge touchscreen Direct Record Electronic (DRE) voting machines from our elections. And while some states...
View ArticleSilicon Valley Under Scrutiny
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A Trump Treasury of Tweets, Part 3
To Covfefe or Not to Covfefe. That is the question.Yes, it’s that time once again. The time when we reflect upon the past months’ tweets from the communicator-in-chief, and select our favorites. It is...
View ArticleTurkey’s Pivot to Russia
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The Fearful vs. the Fearless
The 2016 election and its aftermath has deepened a culture of fear in the United States. A few years ago it was about Ebola, vaccines, Zika and child predators. Now it’s about fear of the future, the...
View ArticleStill No Trial for 9/11 Defendants
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View ArticleSanders’s Single-Payer Bill: More Backing but Questions Remain
When Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unveiled his long-awaited single-payer health bill in Washington Wednesday afternoon, he had the backing of 16 Democratic senators, including top 2020 presidential...
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A Decade After Massacre, Blackwater Founder Buddies Up with President
It all started with a single gunshot from a Blackwater Security Company guard. A young man who was driving with his mother to pick up his dad from work was killed. His foot wedged against the...
View ArticleMisplaced American Healthcare Exceptionalism
A popular myth perpetuated about the US healthcare system is that it is “the best in the world” and the “envy” of other nations. The people saying these things are absolutely right. The US healthcare...
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Barrett Brown Takes on Dallas Politics
How does a progressive, anti-establishment kind of guy keep winning elections in Dallas, Texas, with all of the city’s establishment forces — including the mayor and the powerful Dallas Morning News —...
View ArticleSingle-Payer Success?
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Spotlight on Michael Cohen — Trump’s Mysterious Lawyer with Deep Ukraine Ties
Jared Kushner, Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn … all members of President Donald Trump’s inner circle — past and present — have been scrutinized by the media, and their various Russia...
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