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How Scott Pruitt Is Gutting the EPA on Behalf of the Fossil-Fuel Industry
Trump's EPA chief is gutting the agency, defunding science and serving the fossil-fuel industry. By Jeff Goodell.
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Top Ten Signs of [Trump’s] Creeping Authoritarianism, Revisited
Is the president looking more like a dictator after six months in the White House? By Stephen M. Walt.
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The Madness of Donald Trump
The pressures of the presidency have pushed Donald Trump to the edge, but is he crazy enough to be removed from office? By Matt Taibbi.
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No business, no boozing, no casual sex: when Togo turned off the internet
When young people started mobilising online against Togo’s president, the state switched off the internet. In the week that followed, people talked more, worked harder and had less sex – all of which proved bad news for the government. By Mawuna Koutonin. (Sept. 21, 2017)
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Why American Democracy Has Descended Into Collective Hysteria
We are a great power in decline—but neither party has a clue what to do about it. By William Greider.
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America’s Crisis Of Disconnection Runs Deeper Than Politics
Our national self-sorting into liberal and conservative enclaves is tracking with rising rates of loneliness. Why, and at what cost? By Brené Brown.
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Nomination of climate skeptic to head White House environmental office draws strong reactions
Former Texas regulator expected to bring big changes to Council on Environmental Quality. By Hannah Northey.
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Trump Keeps Getting Mad When He Finds Out What His Policies Actually Do
America’s first “low-information” president. By Eric Levitz.
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John Kelly and the Language of the Military Coup
The chief of staff sees his role as controlling Trump. If the President obeys him, then the President cannot be criticized. By Masha Gessen.
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Surprised by Trump’s Popularity in Appalachia? Don’t Be
For those of us who study Appalachia's politics, Trumps popularity comes as no surprise.Appalachia has long existed outside the economic norms of the United States... By Joshua Wilkey. (Oct. 18, 2017)
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Why This Is Not Trump’s Watergate
Never mind the obvious factual differences in the stories—the allegations of Russian collusion are far more grave—American law, politics, and journalism is far too different now to think that matters will unfold the way they did in the 1970s. As complex a story as Watergate was, it reads like a children’s book compared to what Mueller and his team are dealing with. As vicious and as partisan as the events were back then, they seem quaint in comparison to the poisonous atmosphere in which the current scandal is unfolding. That is why the comparisons to Watergate are so facile. By Andrew Cohen.
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Trump judge nominee, 36, who has never tried a case, wins approval of Senate panel
Brett J. Talley, President Trump’s nominee to be a federal judge in Alabama, has never tried a case, was unanimously rated “not qualified” by the American Bar Assn.’s judicial rating committee, has practiced law for only three years and, as a blogger last year, displayed a degree of partisanship unusual for a judicial nominee. By David G. Savage.
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We’re still aghast at Donald Trump – but what good has that done?
Declaring it all so ghastly isn’t going to halt these trends or remove the reprobate from the White House, writes Thomas Frank.
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The Sultan and the Sultan
Faced with a vast, decaying empire, the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II ruled with an iron fist, curtailing press freedom, promoting Islam and severing ties with the West. His similarities with Turkey’s current president have not gone unnoticed. By William Armstrong.
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Why the Anti-Corruption Drive in Saudi Arabia is Doomed to Fail
The problem in resource-rich states is that corruption is not marginal to political power, but central to acquiring it and keeping it. By Patrick Cockburn.
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Saudi Arabia’s Incompetence Would Be Comical If It Weren’t Killing So Many People
Saudi Arabia has all the advantages in its rivalry with Iran — and still falters at every step. By Murtaza Hussain.
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An American Journalist Is Facing A Felony Trial This Week — In The U.S.
A photojournalist facing a criminal trial on several felony charges sounds like something that would happen in another country. So this article is written in the style that would be used if it did. By Ryan J. Reilly and Christopher Mathias.
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FCC explains why public support for net neutrality won’t stop repeal
Americans who support net neutrality find that their voices don’t count for much. By Jon Brodkin.
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Zimbabwe: Five lessons from Uncle Bob
What Robert Mugabe’s long and eventful life can teach us. By Elsie Eyakuze.
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A Mafia State Within a Totalitarian Society
Reflections on Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin from the writer Masha Gessen, whose new book about Russia won the 2017 National Book Award for nonfiction. By Adrienne LaFrance.
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