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Christopher Leonard's NYT Bestselling book, "Kochland: The Secret History Of Koch Industries And Corporate Power In America" (AP Photo/David Zalubowski/ Lars Niki/Getty Images for United States Olympic Committee/Simon & Schuster)

Welcome to "Kochland": Hell or utopia?

Chauncey DeVega

Reporter Christopher Leonard on his "secret history" of the Koch brothers' empire, and the world they created

In this June 23, 2016, photo, farmer Will Cabaniss stands with his crop on his 20-acre hemp farm in Pueblo, Colo. Three years into the nation's hemp experiment, the crop's hazy market potential is starting to come into focus. Most of it is being pressed for therapeutic oils, not processed into rope or fabric or more traditional products. Authorized for research and experimental growth in the 2014 Farm Bill, hemp is being grown this year on about 6,900 acres nationwide, according to industry tallies based on state reports. (AP Photo/Kristen Wyatt) (AP)

Legal hemp muddles marijuana prosecution

Phillip Smith - Independent Media Institute

Forty-seven states have now legalized hemp, but only 11 have legalized marijuana

US President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Hunter Biden (Andrew Harnik/Jack Dempsey/Invision for Participant Media/Getty/SERGEI SUPINSKY)

Trump, Rudy still digging Biden dirt

Bob Cesca

Trump and his henchmen have eagerly dug for a Biden scandal in Ukraine. Now it's coming back around to bite them

Sleek and function meet in this charger

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The CoreStand makes it easy to charge without cluttering your space.

(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Diabetes patients missing nutrition help

Phil Galewitz - KFF Health News

Health experts say the little-used benefit represents a lost opportunity for beneficiaries to improve their health

Donald Trump (AP Photo/Alex Brandon/Gonzalo Gaudenzi)

For Dorian refugees, chaos and cruelty

Sophia Tesfaye

Refugees from the stricken island nation might include "very bad people," Trump claims. So they must all suffer

This satellite image provided by NASA on Aug. 13, 2019 shows several fires burning in the Brazilian Amazon forest. (NASA via AP)

The worst fires are likely still to come

Robert T. Walker - The Conversation

Brazil’s wildfires are closely linked to deforestation which Brazil had successfully slowed last decade.

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Mind the GOP gap

Kate Yoder - Grist

It’s now clear that elected Republican representatives are increasingly out of step with voters on climate change

A migrant woman carries a little girl as they walk in a street. (Getty/Angelos Tzortzinis)

How climate change is driving emigration

Miranda Cady Hallett - The Conversation

Factors such as drought, exacerbated by climate change, are driving people to emigrate from Central America

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks while introducing health care legislation titled the "Medicare for All Act of 2019" with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), during a news conference on Capitol Hill, on April 9, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Why rich people outlive the rest of us

Keith A. Spencer

A dystopian government study finds that income and lifespan are correlated — but it doesn't have to be this way

US President Donald Trump and Acting US Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan update the media on Hurricane Dorian preparedness from the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, September 4, 2019. (JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

NOAA to probe why agency backed Trump

Shira Tarlo

NOAA's acting chief scientist called the agency's response "political" and a "danger to public health and safety"

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani(2ndL) attends the signing of HR 1327, an act to permanently authorize the September 11th victim compensation fund by US President Donald Trump during a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, July 29, 2019. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

House to probe Giuliani over Ukraine

Shira Tarlo

Three House panels launched a probe into an alleged "scheme" by Trump and Giuliani to boost his re-election chances

Siri Talking Graphic (Salon/ Ilana Lidagoster)

Apple made Siri avoid saying "feminism"

Nicole Karlis

In a cowardly move, Apple brass have ceded cultural terrain on basic gender equality to far-right sophists

President Donald Trump, White House National Security Advisor John Bolton, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (AFP/Getty Images/ LUDOVIC MARIN/ Chip Somodevilla/ AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Bolton, Graham opposed Taliban summit

Matthew Rozsa

New report reveals that Trump impulsively pursued a Taliban summit — and just as suddenly abandoned the idea

U.S. President Donald Trump and  Russian President Vladimir Putin (Ricardo Ceppi/Getty Images/ AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

CIA disputes report of spy’s removal

Shira Tarlo

The move followed an Oval Office meeting between Trump, Russia's foreign minister and its ambassador to the U.S.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (Alexander Nemenov/Pool Photo via AP/ Getty Stock/ Salon)

Putin suffers setback in Moscow election

Matthew Rozsa

But experts agree that the Communist and A Just Russia parties are both controlled by the Kremlin, to some extent

Jared Kushner and Avi Berkowitz attend the TIME 100 Summit 2019 on April 23, 2019 in New York City. (Craig Barritt/Getty Images for TIME)

Kushner protégé now running peace deal

Igor Derysh

Avi Berkowitz, a 29-year-old Kushner aide, will take over Middle East peace plan already ripped by experts

Donald Trump, John Legend, and Chrissy Teigen (Photo illustration by Salon/NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images/ Dimitrios Kambouris)

Trump attacks "filthy mouthed" Teigen

Ashlie D. Stevens

As of last night, Trump still had Teigen blocked on Twitter. Nonetheless, he still appeared to be nursing a grudge

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Donald Trump visits his Scottish golf course Turnberry (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Air Force stays at Trump resort revealed

Shira Tarlo

Trump Turnberry lost $4.5 million in 2017, but revenue went up $3 million in 2018

Jerry Falwell and Jerry Falwell Jr. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci/Jeff Fusco/Getty Images)

Falwell sex scandal: Right won't care

Amanda Marcotte

Latest exposé of Jerry Falwell Jr. won't touch him, as long as he keeps pushing racism, sexism and homophobia

Ivanka Trump; Donald Trump Jr. (Getty/Riccardo Savi/Bob Levey)

Don Jr. and Ivanka in "cold war": report

Alex Henderson - Alternet

Don Jr. allegedly “confronted Ivanka over rumors that her team was undermining him" in conversations with reporters

President Donald Trump makes remarks in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House as Vice President Mike Pence looks on August 5, 2019 in Washington, DC. President Trump delivered remarks on the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, over the weekend. (Getty/Alex Wong)

Did Pence push back on Taliban meeting?

Tom Boggioni - Raw Story

Reactions to Trump’s announcement that he had canceled the meeting appears to have validated their concerns

Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Getty/Salon)

Sanders makes gun dialogue about herself

Bob Brigham - Raw Story

“We have to look for ways that we can . . . disagree with people without being kicked out of restaurants"

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