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Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator; Emad Brunat and Guy Davidi’s 5 Broken Cameras

Two new biographies differ over the astronomer’s view of the relationship between science and faith.

Time to stop being cynical about corporate money in politics and start being angry.

A case of scientific misconduct at Harvard.

Climate change might be more important to voters than most politicians think.

Denialists are dead wrong about the science. But they understand something the left still doesn’t get about the revolutionary meaning of climate change.

The body of the church of Scientology is not well. Will its main legacy be its contribution to US tax law?

Hundreds of people continue their nonviolent protest outside the White House, urging the president to say no to the potentially environmentally disastrous Keystone XL pipeline. 

Structurally unsafe and laced with formaldehyde, the "hurricane-proof" classroom trailers installed by the Clinton Foundation in Haiti came from the same company being sued for sickening Hurricane Katrina victims.

Only the deepest cuts in the country will satisfy this crowd. Will the treatment kill the patient?