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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.

Luigi Mangione appears for his arraignment at Manhattan Criminal Court on December 23, 2024 in New York City. (Curtis Means-Pool/Getty Images)

Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to killing health insurance CEO Brian Thompson

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Karoline Leavitt speaks to Fox News on November 24, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Karoline Leavitt is leaving her post as White House press secretary

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The entire U.S. economy is basically a giant betting app

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David Ellison, Chairman and CEO of Paramount Skydance speaks on stage during New York Upfront Partnership Event 2026 at Storied NYC on April 22, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for Paramount)

Paramount CEO threatens to relocate company from California

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President Donald Trump returns to Joint Base Andrews on July 09, 2026 in Washington, DC. Trump, switched from the old Air Force One to the new Air Force One while stopping in the U.K. at RAF Mildenhall Air Force Base was returning from his visit to Ankara, Turkey where he attended the NATO summit. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump performs disappearing act to avoid Iranian threat

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Former National Institutes of Health Director Anthony Fauci (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Fauci is an easy scapegoat for pandemic revisionists 

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Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. (Image Credit: NASA)

SpaceX’s rocket trashes the moon

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In an aerial view, Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch is shown on March 8, 2026 outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico. (Photo by Roberto E. Rosales/Getty Images)

New Mexico sues DOJ over Epstein files and releases “truth commission” report

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A Virgin Mary statue remains untouched in front of a burned out residential home in the Balboa neighborhood of Spokane, Washington, on August 2, 2026. Fast-moving fires left a trail of destruction in the northwestern US city of Spokane on Sunday, with officials reporting hundreds of structures reduced to cinders. (Photo by Erick Doxey / AFP via Getty Images)

Spokane wildfires are a warning to the rest of the world

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Breathable air is a luxury. Paying out of pocket could be next

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GTA VI logo from the trailer displayed on a laptop screen and PlayStation DualSense controller. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Gaming is in serious trouble. GTA VI may be the nail in the coffin

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Lettuce, a common source of Cyclospora cayetanensis infection. (ullstein bild / Getty Images)

Diarrhea-causing parasite outbreak is a symptom of MAHA cuts

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An 1801 illustration of the USS Enterprise capturing Tripolitan Corsair, layered behind ships anchored in the Gulf of Oman on June 21, 2026, as U.S.-Iran tensions eased and the Strait of Hormuz prepared to reopen. (Illustration by Salon / Shady Alassar / Anadolu via Getty Images / National Archives)

The war that defined America

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The rising price of Trump’s anti-science agenda

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AI doomerism is misplaced. Here’s what it will take to pop the bubble

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Risk of nuclear catastrophe is worse than ever. We can change that

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The best albums of the year (so far): Music to stop the doomscrolling

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A health worker, wearing single-use protective clothing and a surgical cap, stands at a checkpoint where she oversees hand washing and temperature screening for all visitors and patients entering Kyeshero Hospital, as part of Ebola prevention measures in Goma on May 18, 2026. (Photo by Jospin Mwisha / AFP via Getty Images)

Ebola and hantavirus reveal US as a major threat to global health

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The first passengers from the MV Hondius depart for Tenerife Airport aboard a Spanish Military Emergency Unit bus, escorted by a member of Spainâs External Health Service, after disembarking at Granadilla Port in Tenerife, Canary Islands, on May 10, 2026. (Photo by Andres Gutierrez/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Hantavirus is a warning. The Trump admin isn’t listening

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“When it finally happens”: The weaponization of euphemism in MAGA’s shadow

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A Congolese Army soldier holds a baby chimpanzee while manning a checkpoint in the entrance to the provincial capital of Goma, Congo on November 6, 2008. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images)

Is war central to human nature? Chimps can’t tell us everything

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Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. (Image Credit: NASA)

How to love the moon mission without guilt

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Elon Musk on stage before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY on Sunday, October 27, 2024. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Maybe it’s time to give Elon Musk control of the sun

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So is this World War III? The term doesn’t mean anything, and that’s a problem

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