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What Carl Sagan Understood About Human Cruelty

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An infrequent astronomical event offers a new way of processing the unthinkable.

A planetary Nebula (NGC 7293) in the constellation Aquarius (Universal History Archive / Getty)

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This week,

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Brian Stelter: I Never Truly Understood Fox News Until Now

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The basic story of Fox News and the 2020 election is well understood. Fox’s relatively small news operation covered the vote count accurately; this coverage infuriated President Donald Trump, the MAGA base, and Fox’s opinion stars; some viewers temporarily flipped to further-right outlets, such as Newsmax; and Fox panicked.

But thanks to Dominion Voting Systems, which is pursuing a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox, we now know that the network’s sense of crisis was even more intense than it

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America Has Never Really Understood India

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has resurrected Cold War hostilities, harkening back to a world in which the United States saw itself pitted in a Manichaean struggle, facing a choice between good and evil. The U.S. is using similar rhetoric today to persuade countries to isolate and punish Moscow. President Joe Biden has garnered support among his NATO allies to impose crippling sanctions on Russia, but his efforts elsewhere have been only partially successful. Australia and Japan—which, along with the

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Yorkshire cricket star who called Azeem Rafiq a ‘P***’ ‘understood to be Gary Ballance’

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Former England cricket star Gary Ballance tonight admitted calling his ex-Yorkshire team-mate and ‘best mate’ Azeem Rafiq a ‘P**i’.

Ballance, who played 23 Tests and 16 one-day internationals between 2013-2017, released a long and emotional statement on Wednesday, just hours after MailOnline revealed he was the player at the heart of the race scandal. 

The batsman accepted he was responsible for some of the offensive and derogatory terms that Rafiq revealed he was subjected to during his time at Headingley.

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