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Four Cabinet nominations that could blow up in Donald Trump’s face
It would only take a handful of GOP turncoats to torpedo some controversial nods.
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Rex Tillerson Supposedly Shifted Exxon Mobil’s Climate Position. Except He Really Didn’t.
The oil giant’s transformation on global warming was more rhetorical than anything else.
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Thirteen Facts About America Conservatives Would Like You to Forget
Conservatives opposed the Founding Fathers, the American Revolution and a lot of other righteous stuff as well.
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The U.S. Spends Hundreds of Billions on Crops That Make Us Unhealthy
A new study finds that high consumption of commodity crops is linked with poor health outcomes.
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When Soldiers Come Home, Who Tends to Their Moral Injuries?
Listening can help ease the transition home for veterans and ultimately heal us as a nation.
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The U.S. Doesn’t Even Crack the Top 10 on a Ranking of Social Progess
The ‘Social Progress Index’ shows global prosperity isn’t only about GDP.
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The Deportation System’s ‘Lock-up Quota’ Is Just As Bad as It Sounds
Law enforcement is in the business of dealing with insecurity. But the one thing that’s always secure about America’s law-enforcement system is the number of immigrants it imprisons each day.
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Report Says Putin was directly involved with Russian Interference in U.S. Election
The Russian president personally directed leaks of material hacked from Democrats, according to NBC.
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Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump
Alarmed that decades of crucial climate measurements could vanish under a hostile Trump administration, scientists have begun a feverish attempt to copy reams of government data onto independent servers in hopes of safeguarding it from any political interference.
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The most well-known astrophysicist of our time discusses a dozen times he’s been racially profiled
With the exception of creationists and other anti-science groups, Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of the most recognizable and well-liked people on the planet.
