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Just How Evil Is the Evil Dex?

Griffith Park Observatory, where it all started.Photo credit: Kevin Drum/Evil Dex Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Bear with me here. This story has a long windup and an uncertain payoff. You have been warned. As you all know, I’m awake all night on Thursdays thanks to my weekly dose of…

We Should Try to Understand Even the People Who Hate Us

John Schultz/Quad-City Times via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over at Vox, Sean Illing interviews Robert Wuthnow, author of The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America. The title makes it pretty clear what the book is about, and Illing is annoyed that we’re all once again being…

60 Years Ago You Couldn’t Stargaze in London. Now You Can.

Nick Ansell/PA Wire via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Slate and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The famed Royal Observatory in Greenwich, United Kingdom, is reopening more than 60 years after London’s smog forced its closure in 1957. The Royal Observatory was…

Trump ‘Never Pushed’ Republicans to Vote on Immigration, Despite Tweet Three Days Earlier That Did Precisely That

Ting Shen/Xinhua/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Saturday afternoon, as thousands across the nation gathered to protest family separation, President Donald Trump tried to distance himself from House Republicans’ failure to pass either of the two immigration bills under consideration earlier this week. I never pushed the Republicans in the…

Check Out These Amazing Signs From Today’s Massive Rallies to Protest Family Separation

Protestors gather in Lafayette Park, across from the White House, for the Families Belong Together rally.Michael Candelori via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across the country Saturday to protest the draconian immigration detention policies employed by the Trump administration that separated…