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Troy Farah

Troy Farah (John Haas)
Email: tfarah@salon.com
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Troy Farah is Salon’s news editor, specializing in coverage of the planet and public health, and author of our morning newsletter, Crash Course. Previously, he served as the national affairs editor and earlier, science and health editor. His reporting has appeared in Scientific American, STAT News, Undark, VICE and others. He co-hosts the drug policy and science podcast Narcotica. He has a strong interest in reality, consciousness, existence, nature, science and not being a jerk about it. He is the secretary of the Illinois Native Plant Society — QC chapter. His website is troyfarah.com and can be found on Blue Sky.

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Please don’t send me your robot music

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Donald Trump speaks during the 81st United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 22, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Patrick van Katwijk/Getty Images)

Trump leans into Iran war, admits it could cost Republicans the midterms

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Former special counsel Jack Smith arrives to testify during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled “Oversight of Jack Smith’s Abuse of Authority and the Targeting of Republicans and Related Matters,” in Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday, September 29, 2026. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images)

We all need Jack Smith’s defiance right now

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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters alongside AI executives outside the West Wing after a meeting on artificial intelligence, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

AI hype promises miracles. That’s as risky as doomsday talk

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Karl Rove speaks on stage during the "Election 2024" panel for The Atlantic Festival 2024 on September 20, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images)

GOP has a “Nazi” problem, Karl Rove says

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480 Otis walks across Brooks River in Bristol Bay, AK on Sept. 20, 2023. 480 Otis is estimated to be 27 years old and is a four time Fat Bear Week Champion. (The Washington Post / Contributor via Getty Images)

Fat Bear Week should be every week

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President Donald Trump (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Pro-Trump “love me” ads paid for by taxpayers

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Donald Trump speaks briefly with the press as he walks with China's President Xi Jinping on September 24, 2026. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump folds as White house press returns

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio, from left, President Donald Trump, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller attend a Shield of the Americas meeting on the sidelines of the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump admin spars with Iran at UN meeting

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President Donald Trump is seen in the electronic viewfinder of a television camera as he speaks to reporters about healthcare in the Oval Office at the White House on September 18, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Launch of “Trump TV” draws comparisons to North Korean media

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An aerial view of the Paramount logo displayed on the water tower at Paramount Studios on September 21, 2026. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Paramount takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery fueled by foreign cash: report

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Daily life continues in Tehran, capital of Iran, amid ongoing tensions between Iran and the United States, under the impact of US sanctions, on September 14, 2026. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Trump’s Iran war has economists aghast

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President Trump's image is everywhere, even on illicit drugs found in the Netherlands. (Jim WATSON / Getty Images)

Trump bans CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House “effective immediately”

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Sen. Mitch McConnell arrives for a vote at the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 14, 2026. It was his first public appearance in more than 90 days. (Finn Gomez/Getty Images)

Mitch McConnell is back, and it’s terrifying 

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Are we in the AI end times?

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Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie lost the Republican congressional primary after he was targeted by a political smear ad generated by AI (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Thomas Massie calls to impeach Pete Hegseth as Iran war looms over midterms

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Donald Trump and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in Evian, France, on June 17, 2026. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP via Getty Images)

“Hoax”: Trump dismisses AI concerns among bipartisan calls for regulation

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Marathon Petroleum Corp's Los Angeles Refinery, one of the largest oil refineries in the North America on March 10, 2026. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

Trump is trapped in his self-inflicted energy crisis

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A volunteer grabs a gallon of water at a water and food distribution drive held by College Hill Baptist Church and the World Central kitchen on March 07, 2021 in Jackson, Mississippi. Residents in parts of Jackson, Mississippi, where 80% of the residents are Black, have been without running water since mid-February after the city was hit by back-to-back winter storms. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

A federal court says the government can lie to you. That will backfire

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The price of diesel fuel is displayed at a gas station on September 11, 2026 in Miami, Florida. Diesel fuel prices in the U.S. topped $6 a gallon for the first time ever. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

August was brutal for consumers. September could be worse

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The Claude by Anthropic AI assistant app logo. (Photo by Matteo Della Torre/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Anthropic says it blocked use of bad actors developing bioweapons

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SHANGHAI, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 06 2026: A man checks the "Equal Earth" map projection on a screen in Shanghai, China, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2026. The United Nations General Assembly recently endorsed the non-binding resolution to promote the projection, which aims to correct geographical distortions caused by the traditional Mercator map.

Our world map is wrong. MAGA likes it that way

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Lonnie G. Bunch III, 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, speaks onstage during the John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation 2025 Good Trouble Gala at Flourish Atlanta on May 29, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images)

Lonnie Bunch, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, announces retirement

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ockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto 6. (Photo by Chris DELMAS / AFP via Getty Images)

“GTA VI” leaks draw more scrutiny than Epstein files

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