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free speech Koch-funded "academic freedom" grifters run into trouble at Wellesley Andrea James

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fake news JFK’s killer, Michael Jackson’s ghost, and Meghan Markle’s halibut, in this week’s tabloids Peter Sheridan

Science Working model of female reproductive system has first period David Pescovitz

politics 370 economists sign letter slamming Trump for 'magical thinking and conspiracy theories' Xeni Jardin

Science Recreating Our Galaxy in a Supercomputer Xeni Jardin

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books At least Turkey's tragic politics gives material to comics artists Ozge Samanci

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