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If anyone can defy 'political gravity' it's Trump and his team: Kellyanne Conway

Former Trump senior counselor Kellyanne Conway analyzes new polling ahead of the midterms and discusses voter concerns over the cost of living, inflation, and key Senate races, on 'The Story.'

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Sep 17 • 6:17 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Romeo Doubs ready to move past rough Patriots debut

The offseason signing finished Week 1 without any catches.

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Sep 17 • 5:53 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Different Business, Same Family

Long before King’s House of Fire opened its doors in Cortlandt Manor, before cannabis became a legal industry in New York, and before Walter King III began building businesses of his own, the King family was already a familiar name in Ossining. For decades, that name could be found at King Shell on South Highland...

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Sep 17 • 5:24 PM EDT • Business • peekskillherald.com
History, art and science join forces to unlock the mysteries of a

A major grant will enable McGill University Libraries to delve into the Libro di Piume, or Feather Book, an exceptional artifact created in Italy more than 400 years ago. This unique object contains

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Sep 17 • 5:20 PM EDT • Science • mcgill.ca
The Pistons’ Quietest Move Could Be Their Best

Oklahoma City never found the minutes for one of its best shooters, and Detroit just took him. #Pistons

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Sep 17 • 5:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
LACCE

The Landslide Change Characterization Experiment (LACCE) will investigate landslides as they occur in real time across California and Alaska.

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Sep 17 • 5:08 PM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov
From Science to Signals, Part II: What the SEC-FDA Cooperation Agreement Means for Life Sciences Companies

The SEC and FDA have formalized an emerging enforcement trend. We recently described the SEC’s evolving approach to insider trading,...

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Sep 17 • 4:39 PM EDT • Science • freshfields.com
Iowa’s August jobs report released

Iowa’s unemployment rate held steady in August at 3.2%, the same as it has been since May, new information from Iowa Workforce Development shows. The U.S. unemployment rate was 4.1%, the same as it was in July. Businesses in Iowa added 2,400 jobs in August, pushing the state’s nonfarm employment to 1,585,800. Sectors that saw…

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Sep 17 • 4:26 PM EDT • Business • businessrecord.com
Warriors Sign Pair of Promising Guards to Training Camp Deals

The Warriors are sticking to their 'Strength in Numbers' mantra heading into training camp.

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Sep 17 • 4:11 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
State to allocate $855.4K in Rural Health funds to West Virginia Health Information Network

West Virginia will distribute $855,400 of its federal Rural Health Transformation funds to the West Virginia Health Information Network.

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Sep 17 • 2:54 PM EDT • Health • westvirginiawatch.com
Susquehanna awarded nearly $400K from National Science Foundation

Susquehanna University has been awarded a $388,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to fund research on aquatic microorganisms.

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Sep 17 • 2:44 PM EDT • Science • susqu.edu
Examining the Eagles’ recent history in Week 2 matchups

A look at Philadelphia’s results and notable performances in recent Week 2 games

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Sep 17 • 2:36 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
This million-year-old 'baby planet' is the youngest world scientists have ever discovered

Astronomers have confirmed a large exoplanet is forming in the cloud of debris around a young star. At less than a million years old, it's the youngest exoplanet found so far.

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Sep 17 • 2:10 PM EDT • Science • livescience.com
North Korea Stopped Nuclear Testing in 2017 – But Triggered Nearly 1,400 Earthquakes Since

Let sleeping faults lie.

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Sep 17 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencealert.com
Governor Morrisey announces $855,400 award to strengthen statewide health data infrastructure

Governor Morrisey announces $855,400 award to strengthen statewide health data infrastructure

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Sep 17 • 1:50 PM EDT • Health • wtap.com
'$40 TRILLION IN DEBT': Political strategist Kevin Roberts says this is the ACTUAL problem

Political strategist Kevin Roberts says Americans are adjusting to inflation, but warns the nation's $40 trillion debt remains a major unresolved issue.

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Sep 17 • 1:50 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Arkansas State Fair returns in 2026 with new rides and attractions

The Arkansas State Fair is returning to Little Rock this October with new rides, attractions and a change to how live entertainment will be offered.

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Sep 17 • 1:27 PM EDT • Entertainment • katv.com
WATCH LIVE: HHS Secretary RFK Jr speaks at Children's Health Defense conference

Kennedy delivers the keynote address at an event centered on defending kids' health.

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Sep 17 • 1:15 PM EDT • Health • foxnews.com
PFT's Week 2 2026 NFL picks
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Sep 17 • 12:37 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Pennsylvania asks CDC for emergency help as measles outbreak spreads

State reportedly asks for Epi-Aid support unless federal agency recognizes four local measles-related deaths

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Sep 17 • 12:01 PM EDT • Health • theguardian.com
Milwaukee Brewers vs. Pittsburgh Pirates: Kyle Harrison vs. Wilber Dotel

The Pirates are at PNC Park looking to grab a win today.

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Sep 17 • 11:35 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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ACC Rooting Guide: Week 3

Another loaded slate!

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Sep 17 • 10:33 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Chubb Announces Leadership Appointments to Digital Business Organization

/PRNewswire/ -- Following Sean Ringsted's appointment as Chief Scientist and Executive Vice President, Chubb Group, Chubb Limited (NYSE: CB) today announced...

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Sep 17 • 10:15 AM EDT • Business • prnewswire.com
Valor Mortis Costs $40 Because of 'The Craziest Fall in the History of This Business'

Promising first-person action soulslike Valor Mortis has a confirmed $40 price point, which was settled upon by its publisher because of the fall crush fueled by GTA 6.

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Sep 17 • 10:14 AM EDT • Technology • ign.com
Edmond gets $3M grant for behavioral health crisis response

Edmond received a federal grant providing $750,000 annually for four years to expand behavioral health crisis response.

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Sep 17 • 10:12 AM EDT • Health • journalrecord.com
Helio and You: A Fresh Perspective on the Sun

The Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) mission was launched to help us see the Sun from a new viewpoint. This article explains how this mission and others like it revolutionize our understanding of the Earth-Sun system.

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Sep 17 • 10:00 AM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov
Are Business Services Stocks Lagging Ralliant Corporation (RAL) This Year?

Here is how Ralliant (RAL) and Remitly Global, Inc. (RELY) have performed compared to their sector so far this year.

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Sep 17 • 9:40 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
The Champions League cloud that casts a long, dark shadow

More than a year on from one of their most embarrassing European exits, Celtic are struggling to escape from a groundhog day entirely of their own making. Amid buzz phrases like "learning lessons" and "wake-up calls" following last weekend's derby drubbing at Ibrox, an interesting yet awkward question emerges: have Celtic learned anything at all from last year's costly mistakes? Going out of the Champions League to Kairat Almaty cast a cloud over huge swathes of last season.

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Sep 17 • 9:33 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Kent beat Lancashire to boost promotion hopes

Kent remain firmly in the County Championship Division Two promotion race after they beat Lancashire by seven wickets at Canterbury.

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Sep 17 • 8:37 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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With US measles deaths on the rise, local officials are stepping in where RFK Jr won’t

As the country’s top public health official spends his time in office undermining science, doctors and advocates mount an urgent campaign for childhood vaccines

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Sep 17 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • theguardian.com
Susie Wiles make shares MAJOR health update

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles took to X to announce she is cancer-free six months after receiving an early-stage breast cancer diagnosis.

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Sep 17 • 7:59 AM EDT • Health • foxnews.com
State plans home health coverage for waitlisted Arkansans with disabilities

More than 2,400 Arkansans are on a waitlist.

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Sep 17 • 7:22 AM EDT • Health • axios.com
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The Gig Is Up: UNC Health Does an About-Face on BidShift

UNC Health's plan to make nurses bid against each other for extra shifts was abandoned after a social media firestorm.

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Sep 17 • 6:55 AM EDT • Health • theassemblync.com
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El-Sayed, Andrews are right to run. We need doctors in politics.

Doctors, nurses and public health professionals are running for office at every level. We should welcome that – across the political spectrum.

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Sep 17 • 6:03 AM EDT • Health • usatoday.com
El-Sayed, Andrews are right to run. We need doctors in politics.

Doctors, nurses and public health professionals are running for office at every level. We should welcome that – across the political spectrum.

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Sep 17 • 6:03 AM EDT • Politics • usatoday.com
The Strange New Politics of AI. Plus. . .

It’s Thursday, September 17. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press—and our take on the world at large. Today: Douglas Murray asks, why do we allow terrorists to die of old age? The American nonprofits backing Hamas. A conversation with Dara Horn and Coleman Hughes. And much more. But first: inside the unlikely coalition warning that AI may kill us all. Last week, an AI researcher named Jacob Coxon made headlines around the world after saying that he had resigned from Anthropic because he believes AI might cause human extinction—and his co-workers do, too. Unlike the rest of us, potentially, the story just won’t die. The Pro-Human Assembly, a conference held Tuesday in Washington, D.C., about the existential dangers of artificial intelligence, couldn’t have come at a better time—or with a more eclectic coalition. The Archbishop of San Francisco was there. So was Steve Bannon, screaming about the Chinese. Bernie Sanders did a quasi-dramatic reading of messages posted to an online forum by rogue AI agents. Ashley Judd paraphrased a graphic Andrea Dworkin quote for reasons that remain a mystery to me still. It was odd. People in the AI industry have talked openly about the possibility of this technology causing human extinction for years, but it hits differently in the wake of the Hugging Face incident. If you don’t know what that is, all the more reason to read my dispatch today. As the doomers see it, the best-case scenario is a future in which humans are basically kept as pets: well cared for, but with zero autonomy. The worst-case scenario, obviously, is the everyone dies thing. What should be done? I heard lots of ideas but no easy answers. There are currently zero federal regulations on AI, which is sort of strange even to think about. After all, we regulate microwaves, and the people running the microwave industry have never once refused to rule out the possibility that their products will end all human life on Earth. What I saw in D.C. left me even more convinced that you would be hard-pressed to find anyone who believes nothing should be done. You know, except for President Trump. — River Page River Page • Tech and Business [ The AI Doomers Have a Plan to Save Us. I Went to Find Out What It Is. ](https://www.thefp.com/p/the-ai-doomers-have-plan-save-bernie-sanders-bannon) Read story How Robert Kraft Made Macklemore a Martyr—and How to Better Fight Antisemitism On Monday, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and a group of other NFL owners banned Macklemore from performing at their stadiums after the rapper delivered a “Free Palestine” speech while opening for Ed Sheeran. Kraft cited the rapper’s “broader history of antisemitic rhetoric and imagery.” Once multiple venues refused to host shows with Macklemore on the lineup, the tour’s promoter officially dropped him. Today, Josh Kaplan says that the move was counterproductive, arguing that though well-intentioned, Kraft’s decision turned an irrelevant footnote into a martyr. “You cannot cancel people into liking you,” Josh writes. Read his column on what a better response to Macklemore would have looked like. Read [ Robert Kraft Made Macklemore a Martyr ](https://www.thefp.com/p/robert-kraft-made-macklemore-martyr-antisemitism-palestine) This raises the question: What actually works against antisemitism? On the latest episode of Conversations with Coleman, recorded in front of a live audience in New York, Dara Horn joins Coleman Hughes to talk about her new book The Final Solution to the Jewish Question. She argues that antisemitism is a script that has repeated itself across countries and ideologies, and that most people don’t understand that well enough to fight it. Don’t miss their conversation. Watch [ The Lie at the Center of Antisemitism, with Dara Horn ](https://www.thefp.com/p/the-lie-at-the-center-of-antisemitism-coleman-hughes-dana-horn) Listen now Douglas Murray • U.S. Politics [ Douglas Murray: The 9/11 Failure That Still Haunts America ](https://www.thefp.com/p/douglas-murray-911-failure-justice-terrorist-guantanamo-bay) Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, the men who planned them have still not faced trial. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and most of the accused have been locked up in Guantanamo Bay since 2002. Judges have retired, and plea deals have collapsed. Today, Douglas Murray examines how this happened and argues that a justice system that allows terrorists to die of old age in an interminable pretrial process is one that has failed. Read his latest column on what that failure says about our unpreparedness for the era we are now living in. Read story The Editors • U.S. Politics [ When Nonprofits Support Terrorists ](https://www.thefp.com/p/when-nonprofits-support-terrorists) A newly declassified CIA brief from 1998 found that Osama bin Laden used nonprofit shell organizations—including U.S.-based Islamic groups—to fund his terror plots. Today, a similar story is unfolding as multiple organizations on American soil present themselves as nonprofits, taking advantage of tax-exempt status while seeking to advance the ideological mission of terrorist groups like Hamas. Read our editorial on the latest evidence of this dangerous trend—and why there’s no excuse for making the same mistake the CIA revealed 28 years ago. Read story Simon Sebag Montefiore and Bari Weiss Live in New York For decades, the Middle East has shaped American foreign policy and loomed large in the public consciousness. Few understand its influence on our politics better than Simon Sebag Montefiore, who argues that America’s quagmires in the Middle East stem from a deep misunderstanding of the region—on both the left and the right. Join him October 1 as he sits down with Bari Weiss live in New York City to kick off his U.S. book tour for The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East. Get Tickets Now MORE FROM THE FREE PRESS [ Sydney Sweeney’s Naked Truth ](https://www.thefp.com/p/sydney-sweeneys-naked-truth-caitlin-flanagan) Caitlin Flanagan Read story [ I Thought Ukraine Was Losing. Then I Was Almost Hit by a Russian Drone. ](https://www.thefp.com/p/elliot-ackerman-ukraine-drone-gas-station-train) Elliot Ackerman Read story [ The Dangerous Ideology Behind the AI Warnings ](https://www.thefp.com/p/dangerous-ideology-effective-altruism-artificial-intelligence) Shyam Sankar Read story [ Amanda Knox: Patrick Clancy Can’t Win ](https://www.thefp.com/p/amanda-knox-patrick-clancy-grief-internet-crime) Amanda Knox Read story THE NEWS The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter point, its first hike since 2023, signaling that another increase could follow as the central bank tries to bring inflation under control. President Donald Trump fired back by demanding that rates be cut sharply, though he stopped short of criticizing Fed Chair Kevin Warsh by name. The Houthis fired drones and missiles at Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, including a major oil port on the Red Sea, and Saudi jets struck back with air strikes across Yemen in an escalating front of the Middle East war. (For more on the Houthis, read Zineb Riboua’s column from earlier this week.) A sweeping Russia and Iran sanctions bill passed the House in a 262–159 vote and is now heading to Trump for his signature. Named after the late senator Lindsey Graham, the legislation would hit countries that purchase large volumes of Russian oil and gas with tariffs of up to 100 percent, and is aimed at cutting off revenue that funds Russia’s war in Ukraine. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen proposed making Canada the European Union’s first-ever “associate member,” drawing a standing ovation from European lawmakers. The proposal, framed as a response to a world grown more hostile, faces an uncertain path as EU member states would have to approve it, and one diplomat said that “nobody really ​knows what it means.” The House voted unanimously to send billionaire Leon Black a criminal contempt referral after he defied a congressional subpoena to testify and hand over documents related to his connections to Jeffrey Epstein. Black chose to fight the subpoena in court rather than comply. Charlie Kirk’s family filed a wrongful death notice Wednesday against Utah Valley University, alleging that a series of security failures left him exposed to a rooftop sniper. The notice is a required legal step before the family can sue. Merriam-Webster added 1,400 words and definitions to its dictionary, including looksmaxxing, vibe coding, and cuffing season. The publisher said the new entries offer “a window into the world today.” The Free Press earns a commission from any purchases made through all book links in this article.

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Sep 17 • 6:03 AM EDT • Politics • thefp.com
Does 'Resident Evil' have a post-credit scene? Everything you need to know before watching.

Prepare yourself for this gory horror reboot.

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Sep 17 • 5:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • mashable.com
The science behind Florida football’s physical transformation starts with Jake Sankal

Nutritionist Jake Sankal is the science behind some of Florida football's body transformations. Here's how it works.

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Sep 17 • 4:00 AM EDT • Science • gainesville.com
Hurricanes Training Camp starts Thursday—Storylines to watch

The defending champs don’t have many questions—but a couple big ones

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Sep 17 • 1:01 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Lionel Messi Makes History With Inter Miami on Wednesday

Lionel Messi made history again with Inter Miami. The Argentine star’s latest major achievement came in the Campeones Cup match between the Herons and Liga MX side Cruz Azul. Inter Miami and Cruz Azul faced each other in this final, which aims to crown the best team in North America. It pits the MLS Cup […] The post Lionel Messi Makes History With Inter Miami on Wednesday appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 17 • 12:16 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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ND Today: Business Highlight: Timeless Touch

ND Today: Business Highlight: Timeless Touch

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Sep 16 • 9:20 PM EDT • Business • kfyrtv.com
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Music, politics, power – Why Macklemore's Ed Sheeran tour dispute is unprecedented

Macklemore's removal from Ed Sheeran's tour raises bigger questions about free speech, venue power and who controls the stage.

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Sep 16 • 8:14 PM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com
Alvin Kamara a full participant Wednesday

Saints RB Alvin Kamara fully practices after being inactive for Week 1

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Sep 16 • 8:03 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Trump says Fed is raising interest rates for political reasons

President Donald Trump comments on Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh raising interest rates.

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Sep 16 • 7:34 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Football: No Cleanup, Just A Mess

How much blame should the coaching staff take for Saturday’s fiasco?

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Sep 16 • 6:34 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Takeaways from Michigan women’s basketball’s finalized Big Ten schedule

In conjunction with the Big Ten Conference, the full Michigan Women’s Basketball Big Ten schedule has been announced. Here is the Wolverines’ conference schedule and some takeaways:

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Sep 16 • 6:32 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Business and community association established in Pine Level

The town of Pine Level is creating a "business and community association. Leaders talked about their excitement as more and more advancements come to the area.

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Sep 16 • 6:16 PM EDT • Business • wsfa.com
Rutgers Football vs No. 12 USC 2026 Preview

Can the Knights keep the game respectable against USC?

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Sep 16 • 5:41 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Sports entertainment career expo planned during Smith-Jones basketball excursion

The Smith-Jones Family Foundation is organizing a Sports Entertainment Career Expo during its Nov. 4 pro basketball excursion to Detroit.

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Sep 16 • 5:21 PM EDT • Entertainment • hometownstations.com
Windows 11 KB5124008 update breaks domain trust for some users

Microsoft is investigating reports that the Windows 11 KB5124008 security update is breaking domain trust relationships on some enterprise systems, preventing users from logging in with valid domain credentials.

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Sep 16 • 4:39 PM EDT • Technology • bleepingcomputer.com
How to turn off the new 'always listening' feature on Apple Watches

The new Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra are capable of listening, recalling and summarizing various sounds and conversations.

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Sep 16 • 4:09 PM EDT • Technology • usatoday.com
Deshaun Watson places blame after Browns disastrous start

Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson deflected blame onto the media following a blowout loss to Jacksonville.

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Sep 16 • 3:09 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Vikings place RB Jordan Mason on IR with fractured thumb

Mason is listed as a co-starter on Minnesota’s depth chart and splits backfield duties Aaron Jones. He led the Vikings with 15 carries for 59 yards in Sunday’s win over the Green Bay Packers.

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Sep 16 • 2:49 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
AxessPointe Plans to Open Health Facility

AxessPointe Community Health Services may partner with University Hospitals to operate a health clinic in Middlefield Village, Mayor Ben Garlich announced during Sept. 10 village council meeting. The potential partnership would involve the former BFG building, which the village is developing into a health care facility. “We’ve been working with UH on a medical center

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Sep 16 • 2:33 PM EDT • Health • geaugamapleleaf.com
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NY Fed: Business activity declines, firms ‘not very optimistic’

The New York Fed reports a modest decline in business activity and a pessimistic outlook among firms in New York, northern New Jersey and southwestern Connecticut.

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Sep 16 • 1:56 PM EDT • Business • njbiz.com
🚨 Official: Brazil star injured, Martinelli called up

He is cursed with the national team.After a blistering start to the season with Chelsea, Joao Pedro was hoping to use the international break to prove to Carlo Ancelotti that he should have taken him ...

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Sep 16 • 1:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
No matter how deranged and delusional your podcast is, Liz Truss can go further

In the Trusster’s latest appearance, she says Blair and Brown had a plot to dismantle civilisation and the Tories were part of the woke establishment

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Sep 16 • 1:15 PM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Hangs in There as NFL Tops Audience Excitement

ScreenShare: A data partnership between ScreenEngine & TheWrap

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Sep 16 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Senate advances bipartisan bill to overhaul college sports

The Senate advanced a bipartisan bill to set national standards for college athlete compensation and NIL deals.

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Sep 16 • 12:40 PM EDT • Sports • journalrecord.com
Weekend Entertainment Sorted: What to Watch & Read
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Sep 16 • 12:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
WATCH LIVE: Senate panel weighs nominees for top HHS health leadership posts

Nicole Saphier, Chris Klomp and Timothy Westlake face senators as the committee examines their qualifications and plans for leading major health and behavioral-health agencies.

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Sep 16 • 9:49 AM EDT • Health • foxnews.com
Some Fish in the Great Lakes Might Be More Than 400 Years Old, a Study Suggests, Outliving Around 15 Generations of Humans

Lake sturgeon may be among the longest-living vertebrates, second only to Greenland sharks, according to recent research. However, scientists note that follow-up work is necessary to clarify the species’ lifespan

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Sep 16 • 9:43 AM EDT • Science • smithsonianmag.com
Charvarius Ward embraces Guardian Cap in hopes of avoiding another concussion
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Sep 16 • 9:28 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Trump’s surgeon general nominee to face Senate grilling

Dr. Nicole Saphier, a radiologist and former Fox News Channel contributor who owns a firm that sells unregulated tinctures, is the third pick for the role.

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Sep 16 • 9:22 AM EDT • Health • nbcnews.com
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Former bookkeeper for Bristol business pleads guilty to wire fraud and mail fraud: DOJ

A former bookkeeper for a Bristol, Virginia-based business pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal wire fraud and mail fraud charges after prosecutors said she stole

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Sep 16 • 9:12 AM EDT • Business • wcyb.com
Lincoln Riley, Jayden Maiava discuss USC opening Big Ten play

The Trojans are set for their conference opener this week, and both Riley and Maiava are excited for it

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Sep 16 • 8:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Deep in Trump country, a revolt against corporate money could reshape political spending

It taps into growing, bipartisan anger over the pervasiveness of so-called dark money in elections.

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Sep 16 • 8:24 AM EDT • Politics • detroitnews.com
Truth and Politics in the Age of Post-Truth

Get E-International Relations delivered to your inbox, free of charge. As you sign up, consider becoming a paid subscriber, or make a donation, to support our work. Subscribe This is an excerpt from Global Politics in a Post-Truth Era. You can download the book free of charge from E-International Relations. The term post-truth is by now so ubiquitous in describing the state of politics in the Western world and even beyond that the most pressing issue of the day appears to be about making democracy work in the era of post-truth rather than questioning the normalisation of the term itself in the first place. The critical turning point appeared to have occurred in 2016 when the term was chosen by the Oxford English Dictionary as ‘The Word of the Year.’ On its website, the Dictionary notes the transformation of post-truth from ‘being a peripheral term to being a mainstay in political commentary and connects ‘the spike in frequency’ directly with the Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom and the election of Donald J. Trump in the United States – both occurring in 2016. Paired with the noun ‘politics,’ post-truth is defined as an adjective ‘relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.’ The Oxford English Dictionary traces the first use of the term to a 1992 essay in The Nation by the playwright Steve Tesich as he reflected on the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal and the 1990–91 Gulf War: We are rapidly becoming prototypes of a people that totalitarian monsters could only drool about in their dreams. All the dictators up to now have had to work hard at suppressing the truth. We, by our actions, are saying that this is no longer necessary, that we have acquired a spiritual mechanism that can denude truth of any significance. In a very fundamental way we, as a free people, have freely decided that we want to live in some post-truth world (Tesich 1992, 13; emphasis added). He then continued, The Gulf War is over but the war at home goes on. The gulf between rich and destitute widens – between those of us who live in a modern post-industrial nation and those of us who live in the Third World countries of our inner cities. The present administration’s response to this internal crisis has shifted from benign to malignant neglect. The current levels of misery and decomposition of our cities and the economic gulags of our ghettos are acceptable. Since there is only so much hope to go around, there is a freeze on hope. The have-nots have now been reclassified as never-will-haves (Tesich 1992, 13). In the context of Tesich’s essay, truth includes both facts, as in what happens, and ‘moral absolutes,’ as in the ‘self-evident truths mentioned in our Constitution’ (Tesich 1992, 14). Together, these two notions of truth entail the obligation to both act and react. The two passages cited above show that even in the early post-Cold War years, Tesich was already deeply concerned that the American people are neither prepared to act on truth nor react to truth that is disconcerting, or what he calls ‘bad news’ (Tesich 1992, 12). Accordingly, Tesich’s insight as captured by the term post-truth is not that truth is irrelevant to what we know, but rather it is irrelevant to how we act. In contrast, ‘post-truth politics,’ as defined by Oxford as a term that pitches ‘objective facts’ against ‘emotion and personal belief’ such that the latter appears to have overtaken the former in shaping ‘public opinion’ and thereby, democratic politics. When Tesich’s post-truth politics and its current usage are juxtaposed, the two are in fact not identical in terms of what truth is and how it relates to politics. Against such consideration, this chapter provides a critical survey of selected historical events and theoretical considerations for the purpose of gaining a more nuanced understanding of the relation between truth and politics. Truth and Language One notable impact of post-truth politics is that language is being overtly deployed as a political weapon not only by politicians and those in power, but among the general population. It seems that once facts are irrelevant to the validity of what is being said, language becomes the platform for an all-out political contest in which what is said is no more than an act of will expressed as an assertion of power and/or an exercise in defiance. As early as in the writings of Thucydides (460–400 BCE), the vulnerability of logos – which is the human capacity for rational discourse in tumultuous times – was already noted. Thucydides belonged to a school of Greek thought which maintained that language is conventional and that the association between name and things is a result of ‘human use and habit’ rather than ‘nature or divine dispensation’ (Connor 1984, 99). The conventional nature of language means that it is incapable of providing its users with any independent criteria for judgement. In Thucydides’ study of the Peloponnesian War (431–405 BCE), the subversion of logos as seen in the manipulation of language was introduced through his account of the civil war in Corcyra (Thucydides 1972, 236-245). The war first broke out in 427 BCE between the pro-Athenian democratic faction and the pro-Spartan oligarchic faction before it spread to the rest of the Greek world. There was a general breakdown of law and order, resulting in extreme violence and death. Language underwent changes that were reflective of the events of the time. The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) translated Thucydides’ description of the situation as follows: The received value of names imposed for signification of things, was changed into arbitrary. For inconsiderate boldness, was counted true-hearted manliness: provident deliberation, a handsome fear: modesty, the cloak of cowardice: to be wise in everything, to be lazy in everything... he that had been so provident as not to need to do the one or the other, was said to be a dissolver of society, and one that stood in fear of his adversary. In brief, he that could outstrip another in the doing of an evil act, or that could persuade another thereto that never meant it, was commended (Hobbes 1839–1845, 8: 348; Thucydides 1972, 242-243). What concerned Thucydides most was that the meanings of words are no more than linguistic conventions that require logos to support them. The Corcyrean civil war was a reminder that such capacity cannot be assumed. This is why history understood as an authentic account of what happens matters. Guided by logos, the historian’s task is ‘the search after truth’, which is established through ‘the absence of the fabulous,’ including ‘the rejection of myth and unverifiable stories’ (de Jonge 2017, 2). Thus, history plays an important role in facilitating the stability of language – without which distinctions and judgements cannot be rendered communicable. Just like Thucydides, Hobbes was a nominalist who subscribed to the view that there is no inherent meaning to words. Hobbes’ state of nature, where there is no common authority, is precisely one in which distinctions cannot be made. As Hobbes put it, there is ‘no Mine and Thine distinct’ nor is there distinction between ‘the notions of Right and Wrong, Justice and Injustice’ (1968, 188; emphasis in original). This is clearly an unsustainable condition for everyone. Behind Hobbes’ famous words that life in the state of nature is ‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short’ is his uncompromising argument for the ‘Leviathan’, which is described by the late American political theorist, Sheldon Wolin (1922–2015), as the ‘sovereign definer’ (Hobbes 1968, 186; Wolin 2004, 238–243). Accordingly, the social contract is importantly a ‘linguistic contract’ that binds all parties to ‘general names agreed upon’ (Peters 1979, 125; Hobbes 1968, 111). Through Thucydides and Hobbes, we can identify a line of thinking that sees politics as a contestation over the use of language, which is based on shared conventions and norms. Thus understood, politics is not a collective quest for the true nature of our being or an epistemological exercise in pursuit of true knowledge. Rather, politics is about humans living with one another by finding a shared language to communicate with one another on matters that affect them all. Truth is in that sense contingent on what is being said as opposed to setting the standard for it. In other words, truth is the embodiment of shareability among us. While truth as such ensures the viability of a political entity, truth by no means represents a normative standard to adjudicate among contesting actors in what they say, let alone in what they do. During Thucydides’ times, ancient China was also experiencing a tumultuous time as the ruling Zhou dynasty deteriorated into the period of the Warring States (481–221 BCE). This was when the rulers of Zhou no longer presided over the territories brought under its control through conquest. Instead of professing allegiance to the Zhou royalty, the lords of these territories became kings themselves to rule over their own land. The period was one marked by endless military campaigns as each of the seven major states aimed to conquer the rest (Lewis 1999). Yet, the period was also known for its intellectual vibrancy as different thinkers challenged the restoring of order among these warring states – including offering ideas and advice to rulers on good governance. Among these thinkers was Confucius (551–479 BCE). His thought, which came to be known as Confucianism, went on to become the state ideology of China from the Han dynasty (206 BCE–222 CE) until the end of the Qing dynasty in 1911 when China became a republic. The founding text of Confucianism was the Analects, which is a collection of dialogues between Confucius and his students as recorded by them. One key concept Confucius advanced is the ‘rectification of names’. Though the term only appears in one exchange in the Analects, it is considered a major aspect of Confucius’ thought. Generations of Confucian scholars from past and present, including Western academics, have debated over its interpretation (Makeham 2003). The passage in question reads as follows: Zi Lu said: ‘The monarch of the state of Wei wants you to govern the country, what is the first thing you plan on doing?’ Confucius said: ‘First it is necessary to rectify the names.’Zi Lu said: ‘Is that really what has to be done? You are being too pedantic, aren’t you now? How will you rectify these names?’Confucius said: ‘Zhong You, you are too unrefined. A gentleman, faced with a matter that he does not understand, takes a skeptical attitude. If names are not correct, one cannot speak smoothly and reasonably, and if one cannot speak smoothly and reasonably, affairs cannot be managed successfully. If affairs cannot be managed successfully, rites and music will not be conducted. If rites and music are not conducted, punishments will not be suitable. And if punishments are not suitable, the common people will not know what to do. So, when the gentleman uses names, it is necessary to be able to speak so that people understand. If one can say it, one can definitely do it. A gentleman should not be careless with words’ (Analects 13:3 in Cao 2016, 148). This translation is offered by the contemporary philosopher Cao Feng. As Cao notes, the passage is what started the whole debate over ‘exactly what kind of names did Confucius... wish to rectify’ (Cao 2016, 148). Of the three major groups of interpretation examined by Cao, beginning with classical Confucian scholarship, one is arguably the most influential and certainly most pertinent to the issue of language and politics. This is the interpretation that was first associated with the Neo-Confucian master, Zhu Xi (1130–1200), who argued that the ‘rectification of names is simply the rectification of politics’ (Cao 2016, 149). Within this interpretive framework, rectification has the dual functions of correction and prescription by ensuring that predetermined hierarchical roles are strictly adhered to through following ‘the system of rites and propriety’ (Cao 2016, 151). In addition, the rectification of names entails ‘using names to rectify actuality’ (Cao 2016, 151). Yet Cao rejects this whole body of interpretive works by arguing that these were ideas developed later. Instead, Cao suggests the following: The original meaning of Confucius’ rectification of names may, then, be quite simple. Confucius did not mean to establish a concrete, normative system of “names”; rather, Confucius was simply the first person in history to realize or remark upon the importance of language in politics. As a politician, he noticed and foresaw the impact that the indeterminacy, ambiguity, and arbitrariness of names would have on politics. Confucius recognized the political consequences of language’s not accurately expressing meaning or not being accurately received by people. He realized the great role that names, as a means of distinguishing right and wrong and establishing norms, could play in society and politics (Cao 2016, 168). Scholarly debates aside, Cao’s view has the advantage of identifying an interpretation of this controversial exchange in the Analects that enables its readers to extrapolate from it the observation that the meaning of words depends as much on their users as on their interpreters; neither of which can be predetermined. Accordingly, a good ruler is someone who can speak without ambiguity to his subjects and make good his words through actions. Stated differently, Cao’s view on what concerned Confucius then, who was living through times of protracted political upheaval, is that language is an indispensable political tool for those in power and can be deployed by both good and bad rulers alike. To sum up, this historical survey shows that politics as a war of words is by no means a distinctive marker of contemporary politics nor the Western world. Be it ancient or current, east or west, language is subject to manipulation to serve political purposes and when there is an outright war of words that defies existing norms, it is indicative of a political situation in which people no longer share a language and truth becomes irrelevant. Accordingly, political order entails stability in language use. Truth and Politics As previously noted, current use of the term post-truth as an adjective to the term ‘politics’ suggests that once there was a time when politics aligned with truth. Indeed, if we start with Plato’s Republic as the key founding text of Western political thought, we see that the ideal polis (city-state of ancient Greece) is where truth and politics converge, and justice is achieved. Written around 380 BCE when Athens was still coping with its defeat by the Spartans in the Peloponnesian War, the Republic is a defence of the rule of the ‘philosopher king’, defined as someone who is ‘guided by the truth’ and is ‘always and in every way’ in pursuit of the truth (Plato 1974, 490a). For Plato, truth converges with virtues and hence, letting the philosopher take charge of politics is to let the wisest and the most virtuous lead the less wise and the less virtuous even if it requires compulsion (Plato 1974, 499b). In Plato’s words, ‘…until the philosophers attain power in a city there will be no respite from evil for either city or citizens…’ (Plato 1974, 501e). The uncompromising rule of philosopher-kings is made palatable by the claim that we are all ‘earth- born brothers’ with random mixtures of gold, silver, bronze and iron, but only the gold can rule (Plato 1974, 414–415). Understandably, academic debates over the interpretation of Plato’s Republic revolve around the question of whether truth as attained in philosophy can be realised in politics as action and whether such a connection is even desirable. Without getting into the details of these scholarly exchanges, I suggest that they all share the concern that truth acquired through the rigorous process of philosophical reasoning is not without problem when applied to the real world of living humans. This is because not all humans are philosophers – and indeed, in Plato’s view, not everyone is capable of becoming a philosopher given the protracted and arduous training that one needs to endure to become one. Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), a highly influential political philosopher of the twentieth century, notes that ‘Plato was the first to introduce the division between those who know and do not act and those who act and do not know’ and that such a separation has remained ‘at the root of all theories of domination’ (Arendt 1958, 223, 225). What Arendt points out in this remark is not the gap between theory and practice, but rather that Plato provides the normative ground for those who know the truth to tell those who do not know what to do. Arendt herself took on the challenge of understanding the relationship between truth and politics through her analysis of Nazism and Stalinism. Arendt’s insight, which was controversial when The Origins of Totalitarianism was published in 1951, was to identify Nazism and Stalinism as representative of a new form of political rule – totalitarianism – making it distinct from ‘other forms of political oppression... such as despotism, tyranny and dictatorship’ (Arendt 1973, 460). Arendt defines totalitarianism as a self- contained system of ideas driven by their ‘logic’ and marked by a mode of reasoning called ‘ideological thinking.’ Ideological thinking as such is a distinctive form of political reasoning defined by three characteristics. First, ideological thinking claims to provide a ‘total explanation’ of all historical happenings, encompassing the past, the present, and the future. Second, while ideological thinking is an attempt to account for ‘factual reality’ in its totality, this mode of thinking is paradoxically divorced from reality and experience. This is because experience, being rooted in specificity, is clearly limited in its claim to totality. It follows that as its third characteristic, ideological thinking aims to emancipate thought from the limitation imposed by experience through a ‘specific method of demonstration.’ The method involves arranging facts into an ‘absolutely logical procedure’ that starts from an ‘axiomatically accepted premise’. It is, in short, a ‘process of deduction from a premise’ – which is the only possible movement in the realm of logic that leads to one definitive conclusion. This is how the ‘logicality of ideological thinking’ provides the basis for total explanation and the ‘principle of action’ for totalitarian movement (Arendt 1973, 468–474). Stated differently, totalitarianism is a form of uncompromising idealism that exists in one’s head irrespective of shared reality as experienced. It is the perverse form of what Arendt later refers to as ‘rational truth’, which is the product of the ‘speculative mind’ that belongs to philosophy, mathematics and the sciences. The ‘speculative mind’ is the mind working on its way to generate axioms and theories by relying on the cognitive capacity of the human brain (Arendt 1977, 231). The presence of others has no bearing whatsoever on rational truth. In contrast, ‘factual truth’ is what happens when humans are ‘living and acting together’ (Arendt 1977, 231). Factual truth is therefore particular and temporal by definition. But more importantly, factual truth is ‘political by nature’ because it can only be validated in the context of the human community (Arendt 1977, 238). In other words, factual truth is about humans in their plurality rather than in their singularity. For factual truth to be sustainable, we need what Arendt calls ‘common sense’ – understood as ‘community sense’ (Arendt 1982, 72). There is also another distinction about truth that Arendt makes which is pertinent to understanding how totalitarianism works. The issue is whether the so-called totalitarian ideology is simply an unnecessarily cumbersome way of saying that it is an all-round and polished lie. Here, Arendt calls totalitarian ideology the ‘modern lie’ – in contrast to the ‘traditional lie’. The latter is restricted by two conditions: that it is a lie about the ‘particulars’ and that it deceives only the ‘enemy’ – which means that the liar is not engaged in self- deception. The modern lie, however, involves a ‘complete rearrangement of the whole factual texture’. It also intends to deceive everyone alike, to the extent that those who initiate the lie eventually ‘fall victims to their own falsehood’ (Arendt 1977, 249–254). This distinction between the traditional and modern lie is important. It indicates that not only is totalitarianism a lie, but the lie is in fact too big to fit into the standard meaning of the word. To tell a lie from truth, we need a common standard. In the case of a traditional lie, the common standard is precisely ‘the fabric of factuality’. As such, a lie always appears as a ‘tear’ to that fabric. Yet, modern lies require making a surrogate reality with a completely different context for facts to fit ‘without seam, crack, or fissure, exactly as the facts fitted into their original context’. Arendt notes that as long as those who concoct the surrogate reality are prepared to engage in self- deception to ‘create a semblance of truthfulness’, there is nothing to prevent ‘these new stories, images, and non-facts from becoming an adequate substitute for reality and factuality’ (Arendt 1977, 253–254). Totalitarianism therefore requires a person to stand outside of the system itself in order to make sense of it. Arendt points out that it is futile for us to argue with (for example) a Nazi or a Stalinist on race or class. To confront totalitarianism requires more than just a confrontation with specific facts. It is a more fundamental confrontation between reality as experienced and its total rejection. This means that Nazism and Stalinism are more than radical ways of conducting racial conflict or class struggle. Rather: Totalitarian politics – far from being simply antisemitic or racist or imperialist or communist – use and abuse their own ideological and political elements until the basis of factual reality, from which the ideologies originally derived their propaganda value– the value of struggle, for instance, or the interest conflicts between Jews and their neighbours – have all but disappeared (Arendt 1973, xv). Accordingly: The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (that is, the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (that is, the standards of thought) no longer exist (Arendt 1973, 474). Who then is the ‘ideal subject’ of totalitarianism? Although there is a revival of interest in Arendt’s observation on truth and politics since the onset of post- truth politics, not enough has been said about her reply to the question (Hyvönen 2018; Klinkler 2018; Lee 2019; Zerilli 2020). Yet if we take a look at Arendt’s portrait of this ideal subject, her view is even more pertinent to our current challenge. As a self-contained system of ideas that is detached from experience, totalitarian thinking offers consistency in ways that reality cannot. Arendt notes that this kind of consistency is especially appealing to those who have lost a sense of bearing in the world (Arendt 1973, 353). They constitute what she calls the ‘masses’. The ‘mass man’ is thus a highly isolated and atomised individual, who is ‘obsessed by a desire to escape from reality’ (Arendt 1973, 318, 352). In his ‘essential homelessness’ the mass man can ‘no longer bear its accidental, incomprehensible aspects’ (Arendt 1973, 352). This longing for escape from reality is a ‘verdict against the world’ in which one is ‘forced to live’ but ‘cannot exist’ (Arendt 1973, 352). Such a situation is ripe for the ‘revolt of the masses’ against ‘common sense,’ which is ‘the result of their atomisation, of their loss of social status’ and with it, the ‘whole sector of communal relationships in whose framework common sense makes sense’ (Arendt 1973, 352). In short, the masses are people who are considered to be ‘superfluous or can be spared … [who] cannot be integrated into any organisation based on common interest’ (Arendt 1973, 311). Whether one agrees with Arendt’s analysis of the social conditions in the interwar years that led to the formation of the ‘masses’, her portrait of the ‘mass man’ is a powerful account of what can happen to an individual who has become disposable to the society that they used to belong to. Hand in hand with this phenomenon is indeed the collapse of ‘common sense’ that leaves the dislodged individual scrambling for reconnection. By offering the masses a substitute reality validated by the ‘logic of an idea’ rather than by experience, totalitarianism makes it possible for them to live in a world where there is no condition of plurality. Between ‘facing the anarchic growth and total arbitrariness of decay’ and ‘bowing down before the most rigid, fantastically fictitious consistency of an ideology’, the masses will likely ‘choose the latter’ (Arendt 1973, 352). A world created by ideology, then, is more attractive to the masses not because ‘they are stupid and wicked, but because in the general disaster this escape grants them a minimum of self- respect’ by conjuring up ‘a lying world of consistency which is more adequate to the needs of the human mind than reality itself’ (Arendt 1973, 353). Moreover, it is precisely this ability to guarantee consistency that makes it possible for the leaders of totalitarian movements to demand ‘total, unrestricted, unconditional and unalterable loyalty of the individual member’ (Arendt 1973, 323). While this chapter is not a study of the social factors that led to specific contemporary developments such as the result of the Brexit referendum or the election of Donald Trump in 2016, Arendt’s ‘mass man’ seem to have found their counterparts among the supporters of Brexit and Trumpism. Studies of voters’ profiles in both events point to a disproportionate share of supporters from white male lower income backgrounds without university educations. These are individuals who have either already lost their jobs to globalisation or who are at high risk of losing their job with very little capacity to be retrained for the twenty-first century market economy of advanced industrialised states (BBC 2016; Pew Research Center 2018). In short, these displaced workers are part of the tapestry forming the modern equivalent of Arendt’s ‘mass man’ – ready to be the recruits of totalitarianism. Conclusion If we step back to take a more comprehensive approach to the relationship between truth and politics, both historically and theoretically, it is not so obvious that 2016 is a defining moment. From ancient China and ancient Greece to our so-called post-truth age, the indeterminacy of language appears to be a persistent political challenge. Language is always open to manipulation by its users to serve power. Nonetheless, the tendency these days is to single out the ubiquity of social media and the proliferation of Internet platforms as the incubator for the countless cyberwars of words that in turn fuel the real world of politics. In this context, language is no longer the conveyor of objective facts and accurate information, but rather the medium for expressing subjective opinions and feelings, as captured by the Oxford Dictionary’s definition of the term ‘post-truth politics’. In contrast, the historical approach used in this chapter shows that it is in fact too easy to point the figure at the Internet and digital communication for the political challenge that we face today. What is being suggested here is that with or without the Internet, language, be it used to convey facts or emotions, is simply a tool for communication that humans have invented. While language per se cannot adjudicate what is true or not true, what is right or wrong, it embodies such capacity when language is a shared norm. That shared norm cannot be sustained without some semblance of cohesion in any given community. Any war of words, irrespective of its platform, is indicative of the breakdown of such cohesiveness. Returning to the original context in which the term post-truth politics was first used by Steve Tesich helps to identify the important distinction between truth as the standard for knowledge and truth as the standard for action. The two do not necessarily coincide. Placed in the context of the history of political thought, this distinction is in fact at the heart of Plato’s Republic. Yet when the philosopher as the quintessential bearer of truth becomes king, the polis that he rules over is far from the ideal of a just state that it purports to be. Instead, it is one that is held together by lies and coercion. What Arendt reveals through her study of Nazism and Stalinism is that it is dangerous for the kind of truth that philosophy generates – ‘rational truth’ – to become the guide to politics. Politics guided by rational truth can only be uncompromising and follows a logic of its own that cannot afford the ambiguity and indeterminacy of reality as lived experiences of humans. A world of post-truth politics can be an opportunity for a new kind of politics if it is indeed about dismantling the idea that truth is the ideal that politics should strive for. 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Vargas: Privacy laws shouldn’t hurt local businesses

I hope lawmakers remember that consumer privacy and small-business success are not competing goals.

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Sep 16 • 3:08 AM EDT • Business • bostonherald.com
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‘Not surprising’ to see Ilhan Omar supporting Macklemore, political commentator says

Fox News contributor Joe Concha and political commentator Debra Lea discuss the controversy surrounding Sydney Sweeney’s ad for sports trading app Novig and Macklemore being dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour on ‘Fox News @ Night.’

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Sep 16 • 12:04 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
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Senate advances the Protect College Sports Act

ESPN has gotten its apparent wish.

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Sep 15 • 9:54 PM EDT • Sports • nbcsports.com
Penn State Health physician awarded grant to help fight pediatric cancer

HERSHEY, Pa. (WHTM) — A Penn State Health physician was awarded a grant in hopes of finding new treatments for pediatric cancer. Doctor Sinisa Dovat received a $400,000 Scholar Hope Grant fro…

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Sep 15 • 5:59 PM EDT • Health • abc27.com
📋 Fluminense named for the Libertadores quarter-final second leg

It’s time!Fluminense’s lineup is set for the second leg of the Copa Libertadores quarter-finals.Coming up shortly, from 7pm Brasília time, the Tricolor take on Platense in Buenos Aires.The match ...

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Sep 15 • 5:01 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Massachusetts governor unveils proposal to expand postpartum mental health care

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey announces a new proposal to expand screening and support for new parents and bolster the state's postpartum mental health resour

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Sep 15 • 4:48 PM EDT • Health • turnto10.com
GOP lawmaker slams Dems' push to rein in Trump on Iran: 'Political stage'

Rep. Marlin Stutzman spoke with Fox News Digital ahead of a Democrat-led House vote on reining in President Donald Trump's war powers in Iran.

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Sep 15 • 3:35 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
This graduate uses baking to cook up conversation about mental health

Northeastern graduate Dayna Altman found a way to help others’ mental health—and her own—through “Bake It Till You Make It.”

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Sep 15 • 3:07 PM EDT • Health • news.northeastern.edu
ESPN FPI predicts Auburn's remaining games after Week 2 win

How many more games does ESPN FPI predicts Auburn to win after their Week 2 win versus Southern Miss?

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Sep 15 • 2:56 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Alabama flag football rankings: USA TODAY Sports Super 10, Week 4

Although Central's winning streak came to an end, it remains in the top spot in the Alabama rankings this week.

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Sep 15 • 1:34 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
South Carolina organizations awarded $167M to transform rural healthcare access

Gov. Henry McMaster announced Tuesday that South Carolina has awarded more than $167 million in grants to expand and modernize healthcare in the state’s rural communities.

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Sep 15 • 1:30 PM EDT • Health • wistv.com
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Hollywood Prayer Network celebrates 25 years of praying for entertainment professionals

Founder Karen Covell says Christian community gathers together to encourage each other to use God-given talents in a difficult industry.

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Sep 15 • 1:03 PM EDT • Entertainment • foxnews.com