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How did Adolf Hitler manage to successfully destroy German democracy? In his writings and speeches, Hitler comes across as deranged, paranoid, ignorant, buffoonish. And yet he successfully came to power through (mostly) democratic means, using his position to unleash the most systematic mass murder campaign in world history, and ultimately bringing ruin on his country and much of the rest of the continent. How could such a calamity happen? How did he convince people to support him? And how can we ensure that no such scenario ever plays out again?

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James Comey is one of more than a half-dozen presidential enemies under DOJ scrutiny, and the list is growing. Making the charges stick won’t be easy.

In the 1970s, when researchers asked children to draw a scientist, 99 percent of them drew a man. As this experiment was repeated over 50 years, the number of women drawn increased, and within the past decade, more than half of girls will draw a woman when asked what a scientist looks like. Today, Google […]

Federal officers are firing so much tear gas at protesters outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, that some nearby community members who aren’t even protesting are struggling to breathe when they leave their homes to run errands. That’s according to a lawsuit filed this week by journalists and demonstrators who accuse the Department of […]

Researchers developed a system to speed up the design of drug-delivering nanoparticles in the human body, which can more directly target ailments.

“Should I start looking for work in Canada?” a friend in the Midwest, who is not easily flustered, texted me the week that late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel was suspended, and I could see why. Sure, it was just a TV network suspending a comedian, and it was also before the president declared that the […]

OpenAI unveiled a new way companies can integrate with ChatGPT, putting it on a collision course with Apple.