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Why Donald Trump Is Crushing the GOP Field

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Why Donald Trump Is Crushing the GOP Field

A dispatch from the front lines of the most amazing, exasperating campaign the GOP has ever seen may make you laugh. Or cry.

By Bill Powell

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The Neuroscience of Meditation, and the Virtues of Shutting Up

What 10 days of silence can do for your brain.

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Ukraine Says Pro-Russia Rebels Are Building a Dirty Bomb

The pro-Russian separatists have access to a radioactive bunker. Kiev fears they plan to weaponize it.

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Turkey's Risky War With the Kurds

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Two Numbers: Humans Have Burned Up Half the World's Biomass

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Reports: Mullah Omar Is Dead

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Exclusive: Inside the Mysterious 'Death' of Taliban Leader Mullah Omar

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The Eurozone's Death by a Thousand Bailouts

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Ukraine Says Pro-Russia Rebels Are Building a Dirty Bomb

The pro-Russian separatists have access to a radioactive bunker. Kiev fears they plan to weaponize it.

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Turkey's Risky War With the Kurds

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Two Numbers: Humans Have Burned Up Half the World's Biomass

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Exclusive: Inside the Mysterious 'Death' of Taliban Leader Mullah Omar

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The Eurozone's Death by a Thousand Bailouts

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Horizons

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Google Street View Cars to Track Urban Air Pollution

The project will pilot in San Francisco before it rolls out country-wide.

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New Tech Will Give You Superman-Style Hearing

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Museum Dioramas Are as Endangered as the Animals They Contain

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The Oldest People in the U.S. Live in the Geographic Center of the North American Continent

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New Tech Will Give You Superman-Style Hearing

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Museum Dioramas Are as Endangered as the Animals They Contain

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Soon You Too Can Tour Hunter S. Thompson's House

Doctor Gonzo’s former home in Woody Creek, Colorado, will be open to visitors next year and serving his favorite breakfast: gin Jell-O.

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HBO's 'Show Me a Hero' Goes Deep on the Nitty Gritty of Racial Politics

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You're 100 Percent Wrong About Showering

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The Importance of Being Manglehorn

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