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Troy Farah

Troy Farah (John Haas)
Email: tfarah@salon.com
X: @filth_filler

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.

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a press conference on August 5, 2026 in Lexington, Kentucky. (Photo by Michael Swensen/Getty Images)

RFK Jr. and MAHA’s measles reckoning

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Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Alico Arena, Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Florida on October 23, 2026. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

Iran war could last another year, Trump ambassador says

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Donald Trump speaks to the media o the South Lawn before departing the White House on October 22, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Aaron Schwartz/Getty Images)

Trump’s lawsuit against BBC risks falling apart

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Donald Trump speaks to reporters alongside former professional boxer Evander Holyfield on October 21, 2026 in Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

California preps for El Niño chaos as Trump admin signals it won’t offer disaster relief

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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reacts after being awarded the National Medal of Science during the Golden Age of American Innovation Summit at the Institute of Peace on October 08, 2026 in Washington. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Musk’s midterm meddling reeks of desperation

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California voters deciding whether to approve Proposition 50, a measure that would replace the state’s current congressional district map with new, legislature-drawn lines from 2026 through 2030. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Alleged voter fraud in California leads to 28 arrests

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White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia joins U.S. President Donald Trump as he departs on the South Lawn of the White House on October 13, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Katie Zacharia was too incompetent even for Trump

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A skull on a laptop. (nantonov via Getty Images)

The internet isn’t dead. It’s even worse

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Pope Leo XIV meets media representatives in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican on May 12, 2025. (Maria Grazia Picciarella/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Pope Leo XIV diagnosed with cancer

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Tesla, X and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks to reporters as President Donald Trump looks on outside the White House on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026 in Washington, D.C. Trump held a meeting on super intelligence earlier with tech CEOs in the East Room. (Tierney L. Cross/Pool/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Billionaires love Trump’s AI rebrand

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Donald Trump dances after speaking during an election rally at the Oncenter on October 09, 2026 in Syracuse, New York. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Trump gets richer while gas prices soar

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Tyler Zacharia (L) and Katie Zacharia attend the Nashville premiere of 'David' at AMC DINE-IN Thoroughbred 20 on December 14, 2025 in Franklin, Tennessee. (Terry Wyatt / Stringer via Getty Images)

Meet Katie Zacharia, Trump’s new White House press secretary

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Profile of a Greenland shark with Ommatokoita elongata on its eyes. (Hemming1952 via Wikimedia Commons)

Leave the Greenland sharks alone

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Tesla, X and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks to reporters as President Donald Trump looks on outside the White House on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026 in Washington, D.C. Trump held a meeting on super intelligence earlier with tech CEOs in the East Room. (Tierney L. Cross/Pool/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Tech leaders embrace Trump’s “super intelligence” as he calls critics “the enemy”

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Donald Trump looks on during a campaign rally at Pinnacle Bank Expo Center in Grand Island, Nebraska, on October 5, 2026. (Photo by Kent NISHIMURA / AFP via Getty Images)

White House denies Trump wants to let Iran bomb California cities

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The logo of Russia's consumer and health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor sits on its grounds' fencing in Moscow on October 5, 2026. Russian officials on October 5, 2026 downplayed reports that a laboratory technician in Siberia had died of plague, insisting the situation was under control and that post-mortem tests had not found traces of the disease. (Photo by Igor IVANKO / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump says U.S. is “looking strongly” at alleged Russian plague case

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(Curly_photo via Getty Images)

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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