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Why the effects of aging are detrimental to being the U.S. president.
When the president gets his primary information from talking heads on cable TV rather than intelligence briefings, we have a problem.
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Bill Nye, CEO of The Planetary Society, offers an important 5-point plan for President Trump on space exploration and NASA's budget.
What if the vision wasn't just to have politicians who are science literate, but actual scientists running the joint – would it be any better than it is now?
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America has a split personality, and the country it wants to be is constantly being foiled by the country that it is. In an ideal world, says Jelani Cobb, there is a way of using power that does not entail the oppression and exploitation of other people. But how do we get there?
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Elon Musk's cryptic messages about a mysterious tunneling project in California are getting more substantive.
Politics is a noble, brave world, says Bernard-Henri Lévy – but that's not what we have here. rn
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The environmental legacy of this generally disgraced President is second to none.
In response to the president elect, NASA's leadership is developing strategies for continuing deep space exploration in the event of budget change or stagnation.
Trump's impending presidency has left marijuana advocates with fingers crossed on one hand, with the other ready to flush the toilet at a moment’s notice.
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden told an audience we should not be "putting too much faith or fear elected officials." This includes Donald Trump.
Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek thinks the U.S. political machinery is truly broken. He guides a verbal tour through the failure of manufactured consent, the appeal of human baseness, and politics as a real struggle of life and death.
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The history and reasoning behind the much-maligned Electoral College.
This election has scored high for entertainment value, but it's put our humanity through the mill. Comedian Jim Gaffigan is here to talk some sense back into us as people, rather than voters.
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