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Troy Farah is Salon’s national affairs editor. Previously he served as the 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. His website is troyfarah.com and can be found on Blue Sky.

Donald Trump doesn’t understand the drug war he’s fighting

Troy Farah
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk holds a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on June 26, 2025. (Photo by Krishan Kariyawasam/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

“No justification”: UN human rights chief condemns “unacceptable” strikes on alleged drug boats

Troy Farah
A man measures the leaves of the Rafflesia Arnoldii flower at Palupuah Forest, Agam District, West Sumatra, Indonesia on September 16, 2024. (Getty Images / Anadolu / Contributor)

These plants smell like rotten meat — Now we know how they do it

Troy Farah
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks after being sworn in as Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Oval Office at the White House on February 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. Kennedy, who faced criticism for his past comments on vaccine, was confirmed by the Senate 52 to 48. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

RFK Jr. is wrecking public health — but we can (and will) survive this

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U.S. Border Patrol agents and an eight-wheeled Stryker armored vehicle patrolling the border area in Sunland Park, New Mexico state, U.S., are seen from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico on March 28, 2025. (Photo by HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump authorizes military to take control of lands at U.S.-Mexico border

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Pro Palestine demonstrators hold a rally and march to the national ICE headquarters to protest the arrest of Palestinian activists, April 5, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

“Devastating blow”: Student activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported, U.S. immigration judge rules

Troy Farah
Doctor with Oropouche virus positive blood sample. (Fania Witardiana / Getty Images)

Doctors raise alarm about rise in “sloth fever” infections linked to birth defects

Troy Farah
Nuclear explosion with mushroom cloud on scorched earth (Getty Images/Anton Petrus)

If the ultra-rich want to escape from reality — good riddance

Troy Farah
ITHACA, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 10: HDC receiving staff prep arriving milk samples for testing at the Animal Health Diagnostic Center at Cornell University on December 10, 2024 in Ithaca, New York. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

First U.S. death from bird flu reported in Louisiana

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Emergency specialists work at the crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet near the western Kazakh city of Aktau on December 25, 2024. (Photo by ISSA TAZHENBAYEV/AFP via Getty Images)

“Great tragedy”: Deadly plane crash in Kazakhstan sparks conspiracy theories Russia did it

Troy Farah
Flags fly at half mast outside the United Healthcare corporate headquarters on December 4, 2024 in Minnetonka, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

Murdering health insurance CEOs will get us nowhere

Troy Farah
US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (R) speaks during a presidential debate with former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 2024. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

“Execute the baby:” Trump falsely claims Democrats support abortion after birth

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An Arnold Air Force Base team member swabs the muzzle of a tricolored bat in a cave near Arnold AFB, Tennessee, Dec. 5, 2022, to contribute to a study by Virginia Tech concerning the species and white-nose syndrome. WNS is named for a fungus that often looks like white fuzz on the muzzles of infected bats. Currently, there is not a cure for the disease. ((U.S. Air Force photo by Jill Pickett))

Bat deaths linked to rise in infant deaths thanks to pesticide overuse

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Holstein dairy cows feed on haylage at a dairy feedbunk/near Escalon, San Joaquin County, California, USA. (Bill & Brigitte Clough/Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

California becomes 14th state to detect bird flu in dairy cows

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Bronze medalist Noah Lyles of Team United States reacts after competing in the Men's 200m Final on day thirteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Stade de France on August 08, 2024 in Paris, France. (Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

Noah Lyles’ collapse underscores our collective COVID denial

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NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Commander Butch Wilmore (L) and Pilot Suni Williams walk out of the Operations and Checkout Building on June 05, 2024 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

When will astronauts on ISS finally come home? Maybe not till next year, NASA says

Troy Farah
Doctor putting a patch on the little boy's shoulder after successful vaccination. (Getty Images/SrdjanPav)

Childhood vaccinations seen as “not important,” Gallup poll finds

Troy Farah
A man in the metro wears a medical mask for protection in Istanbul on February 3, 2024. (ILKER ERAY/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Is the COVID summer wave here? Here’s what the FLiRT variants mean for rising infections

Troy Farah
Empty Medical Incubator (Getty Images/Capuski)

Infant deaths spiked 13% in Texas following law restricting abortion, study finds

Troy Farah
Bird Flu Infected Animals: Cow, Chicken, Cat and Mouse (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Experts say bird flu is a Pandora’s box. Are we about to open it?

Troy Farah, Nicole Karlis
Distant silhouette of a person standing on rocks below Northern Lights (Aurora borealis), Iceland (Getty Images/mariuskasteckas)

Apocalypse now, and always: On UFOs, AI and encounters with non-human intelligence

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Council of European Foreign Ministers with Hadja Lahbib (MR), Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Affairs and Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of late Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny on February 19, 2024 in Brussels, Belgium, 19/02/2024 (Didier Lebrun / Photonews via Getty Images)

Yulia Navalnaya, wife of dead Putin opponent Alexei Navalny, vows to continue fight

Troy Farah
An artist's impression of the Voyager 1 space probe flying past Saturn in the outer solar system, circa 1980. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

NASA’s Voyager 1 probe could soon go silent forever

Troy Farah
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver offers Clarence Thomas $1 million a year to resign from Supreme Court

Troy Farah
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