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A climate scientist discusses how to think about and weigh the variables that led to the current disaster.

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The President-elect’s brand of America First isolationism has always sat awkwardly with his Napoleonic tendencies.

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A nationwide movement has funnelled taxpayer money to private institutions, eroding the separation between church and state.