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'Of course I am worried': Live Science readers react to US weapons in space

Are you worried about an arms race in space? Live Science readers shared their thoughts.

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Sep 18 • 11:46 AM EDT • Science • livescience.com
WATCH LIVE: Vance speaks at rally in Iowa as competitive midterm races heat up
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Sep 18 • 11:27 AM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
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Will England boss Tuchel 'embrace the chaos'?

After the World Cup, England boss Thomas Tuchel wanted greater control. Two months on, he is keen to "embrace the chaos" after naming his squad for the upcoming Nations League fixtures.

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Sep 18 • 10:14 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Diamondbacks lose further ground on off day

Diamondbacks News (San Diego Union-Tribune) Padres rout Rockies, add to lead in playoff race The Padres came down from the mountains with the margin they need after winning on Thursday by a large margin. With a 9-2 victory over the Rockies, the Padres increased their lead in the race for the final National League playoff […]

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Sep 18 • 10:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Will the Braves mess up the AL West race?

They could mess it up in either direction!

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Sep 18 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Mike Beltran shifts from ‘America First’ to ‘Tampa Bay First’ in race against Kathy Castor for CD 14

The Republican nominee is moderating his General Election pitch as he takes on longtime Hillsborough Democrat Kathy Castor.

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Sep 18 • 8:22 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
Incumbent NSHE regent challenged by UNR public health professor

Peter Reed, a long-time UNR professor, is challenging Nevada System of Higher Education regent Joseph Arrascada, who is seeking a second term, in the upcoming election for District 10. Arrascada, who was first elected in 2020, said he wants another term representing Northern Nevada constituents in order to provide continuity and build on the work […]

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Sep 18 • 7:50 AM EDT • Health • nevadacurrent.com
JD Vance returns to Iowa as Senate and governor races heat up

Vice President JD Vance is heading to Iowa for the second time this year to campaign for Republican majorities in Congress

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Sep 18 • 7:07 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Democrats aim to flip Iowa's U.S. Senate seat in an increasingly competitive race

The race for U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst's open seat is getting increasingly competitive. Democrats hope it's one of the Senate seats they can flip to gain control of the chamber.

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Sep 18 • 7:05 AM EDT • Politics • iowapublicradio.org
JD Vance returns to Iowa as Senate and governor races heat up

Vice President JD Vance is heading to Iowa for the second time this year to campaign for Republican majorities in Congress.

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Sep 18 • 7:02 AM EDT • Politics • ksat.com
JD Vance returns to Iowa as Senate and governor races heat up

Vice President JD Vance is heading to Iowa for the second time this year to campaign for Republican majorities in Congress.

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Sep 18 • 7:02 AM EDT • Politics • wsls.com
Column: The cruel politics that pit struggling Americans against each other

Whether it’s race, geography, neighborhood … it doesn’t really matter what divides, so long as the poor lack compassion for one another.

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Sep 18 • 6:02 AM EDT • Politics • latimes.com
Most Michigan voters disapprove of Trump’s tariffs on Canada, poll shows

Among the state’s independents, who could determine the outcome of several key midterm races, 68 percent disapprove of Trump's levies on Canadian products.

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Sep 18 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Far-right politician Éric Zemmour joins 2027 French presidential race

French far-right politician Éric Zemmour said on Friday that he would run in next year's presidential election, joining far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who was runner-up to President Emmanuel Macron…

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Sep 18 • 5:06 AM EDT • Politics • france24.com
Sunshine State Earthquake? St. Pete Polls shows Ashley Moody, Angie Nixon neck-and-neck in heated Senate race

Both candidates are winning about 45% support from likely voters.

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Sep 18 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
Sticker Shock at the Doctor's Office Could Motivate Midterm Voters

Steep jumps in health insurance premiums and deductibles are top of mind for many voters heading into midterm elections. KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner explains how rising costs may shape competitive races. She also distills plans from candidates on both sides of the aisle to bring costs down.

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Sep 18 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • kffhealthnews.org
Republican 'cavalry' arrives with a Trump-backed $150 million ad blitz in key races

To counter a difficult political environment, two Trump-aligned super PACs have reserved more than $150 million in ads — primarily in deep red House and Senate races that have now become competitive.

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Sep 18 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • kpbs.org
Championship rivals brace for renewal of bitter feuds

Police are on red alert as the English Championship braces for the renewal of two bitter feuds when Millwall face West Ham and Wolves meet West Brom this weekend.The first league meeting between Wolves and West Brom in five years comes after a 2024 FA Cup tie was scarred by crowd trouble.

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Sep 17 • 11:31 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Scientists trace half the DNA in Xinjiang’s oldest tombs to Yellow River farmers

Study of Bronze Age remains uncovers a population with roots in both Yellow River farmers and Eurasian steppe groups.

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Sep 17 • 9:00 PM EDT • Science • scmp.com
Healthy Hero Hustle 5K and community health fair set for Saturday in Buckhannon

The Healthy Hero Hustle 5K starts at 10 a.m. Saturday at Wesleyan, alongside a free community health fair from 9 a.m. to noon. Race-day registration is available.

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Sep 17 • 8:56 PM EDT • Health • mybuckhannon.com
Poll: Ashley Moody 45%, Angie Nixon 45%, and Florida now has two toss-ups at the top of the ticket

U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody and Democratic challenger Angie Nixon are essentially tied in Florida's U.S. Senate race, according to a new St. Pete Polls survey

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Sep 17 • 8:13 PM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
Ex-GOP Governor backing a Democrat in key race speaks to OutFront: ‘I don’t recognize this Republican Party’
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Sep 17 • 7:40 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Alaska governor’s race shifts to toss-up: Cook Political Report

Nonpartisan election handicapper Cook Political Report shifted Alaska’s gubernatorial race to a toss-up on Thursday after previously leaning Republican. Jessica Taylor, the handicapper’…

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Sep 17 • 7:27 PM EDT • Politics • thehill.com
Maine U.S. Senate Race heats up over health care, taxes, and social security

In an interview with WABI, Democratic nominee Troy Jackson said health care reform remains his top policy priority heading into the general election.

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Sep 17 • 6:26 PM EDT • Health • wabi.tv
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
Could AI go rogue and ‘kill us all’? Two Wisconsin experts sort fact from science fiction

A new wave of concerns over the rapid development of artificial intelligence has been sweeping the country after a former tech worker warned that AI could wipe out the human race within a decade.

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Sep 17 • 6:00 PM EDT • Science • wpr.org
Grace Reiter joins the cast of ‘Saturday Night Live’

MINNEAPOLIS — “Saturday Night Live” is adding another Midwesterner. Grace Reiter, who grew up in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, will join the cast when it returns for its 52nd season on

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Sep 17 • 5:33 PM EDT • Entertainment • recorderonline.com
Kamala Harris to hit the trail for Democrats in key races

Harris’ staff on Thursday confirmed that the former vice president is heading to Michigan next week to campaign with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, who’s running for Senate

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Sep 17 • 5:27 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Kamala Harris to hit the trail for Democrats in key races

Harris’ staff on Thursday confirmed that the former vice president is heading to Michigan next week to campaign with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, who’s running for Senate

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Sep 17 • 5:27 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Lallemand Health Solutions showcases science-backed biotics innovations at SupplySide Global 2026

New probiotic and postbiotic solutions target healthy ageing, women’s health and active lifestyles

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Sep 17 • 5:08 PM EDT • Science • nutraceuticalbusinessreview.com
Roundup: Space Force academy / Louisiana Innovation / Data center power

Louisiana enters race: Louisiana is seeking to become the home of a new national academy for the U.S. Space Force after President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for its creation and NASA opened the application process to states. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana, Gov. Jeff Landry’s administration and regional economic development […]

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Sep 17 • 3:55 PM EDT • Business • businessreport.com
Detroit Free Press

Abdul El-Sayed takes on politics, Islamophobia and critics in Jewish, Black communities in race for U.S. Senate seat. See link below ⬇️ 📸 Ryan Garza, Detroit Free Press

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Sep 17 • 2:39 PM EDT • Politics • facebook.com
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Democrat in battleground district runs ad standing against ‘extremism’ as party reckons with DSA wing

Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY), a Long Island centrist, is running advertisements standing against extremism “on both sides” as the Democratic Party reckons with socialist candidates running in the party in 2026. Suozzi touted the ad on X on Thursday morning, sharing it while socialist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, one of the faces of the leftist […]

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Sep 17 • 2:14 PM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com
John Rave Sends Warning to Contenders After Royals Beat Astros

Kansas City was eliminated from the race a day earlier, and it answered by dropping Houston into a first-place tie with 10 games to go.

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Sep 17 • 2:09 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
In Arizona's most competitive district, Ciscomani and Mendoza spar over healthcare policies

The future of insurance, hospitals and healthcare is a major issues in the race between Juan Ciscomani and JoAnna Mendoza

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Sep 17 • 1:56 PM EDT • Health • azmirror.com
'Room for improvement' after solid Saints start

Manager Simo Valakari is not surprised by St Johnstone's solid start to the Scottish Premiership season but admits "there is a lot of room for improvement as well". As they look to continue their positive start at home to Falkirk on Saturday, Valakari and his players appear to be keeping their feet firmly on the ground. Finn Valakari is braced for a tough challenge this weekend against a Falkirk side that got their first league win of the season in midweek with a 2-1 home success over Hearts.

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Sep 17 • 11:23 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Everybody Wants to Make Their Own Mac mini Now, and It's Obvious Why

The era of the tiny AI boxes is setting off a different kind of PC arms race.

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Sep 17 • 11:15 AM EDT • Technology • gizmodo.com
Health Canada recognises Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a source of resveratrol and yeast beta-glucan

Regulatory update supports the development and licensing of fermentation-derived health ingredients in Canada

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Sep 17 • 10:51 AM EDT • Health • nutraceuticalbusinessreview.com
Polls by national Democrats show close race in Maine 2nd Congressional District

Whether you believe the polls or not, the race for Maine’s 2nd District has been ranked as one to watch by national forecasters.

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Sep 17 • 10:47 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Political insider turns anti-incumbent table on 8-year Dem in key Senate race: 'Hasn't delivered'

John E. Sununu flips the anti-incumbent script on Chris Pappas, calling him ineffective on highway funding as the NH Senate race hits toss up.

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Sep 17 • 10:42 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Forward Party seeks emergency U.S. Supreme Court intervention to get candidates on Nov. ballots

The Forward Party of New Mexico is making a last-ditch effort to have their candidates for a handful of statewide races placed on New Mexico’s ballots before they are scheduled to be mailed out Friday. This story was originally published at New Mexico Political Report, a nonprofit news service covering politics and policy in the […]

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Sep 17 • 10:38 AM EDT • Politics • nmpoliticalreport.com
F1 Rumors: A Monaco Sprint Race in the 2027 Calendar?

Provisional details point to more sprint races in the 2027 Formula One calendar.

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Sep 17 • 10:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
How Trey Yesavage Can Help Toronto Blue Jays Down Stretch

The Blue Jays enter Friday's massive series opener in Arlington at 1.5 games back in the wild card race.

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Sep 17 • 9:43 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Will AI really kill everyone? How, exactly?

Industry insiders are once again warning that a superpowered artificial intelligence could exterminate the human race. But how? And which scenarios are actually plausible?

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Sep 17 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • cnn.com
Dolly Parton honored posthumously, shares prerecorded video message

Singer Dolly Parton performs, January 24, 2014 in Rancho Mirage, Calif. (Valerie Macon/Getty Images)The late Dolly Parton is sharing a new video message, which was recorded before she died in August.The Americana Music Association released Parton’s video Wednesday, which was submitted as part of her acceptance of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2026 Americana Honors & Awards.“Roots music, or what is now called Americana music, is what I grew up playing back in the Smoky Mountains,” Parton said in part in the video. “It’s that same music that drew me back to East Tennessee back in 1997 to write and record my album 'Hungry Again.' And that project really opened the door to a series of bluegrass and acoustic albums that changed the course of my career in so many ways.”“Now, new fans discovered these albums, new Americana music communities embraced them, and now looking back at it all, I see this era of my career as a musical renaissance of sorts,” Parton continued.The Americana Music Association announced in August that Parton — whose songs include “I Will Always Love You,” "Coat of Many Colors" and “Jolene” — was being recognized for her “enduring contributions as one of history’s greatest songwriters and recording artists.”Parton was in good company: Emmylou Harris, Van Morrison and Willie Nelson are among the artists who have been honored with the Americana Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award.Parton, a Tennessee native, died on Aug. 25 at the age of 80 following a private battle with cancer, according to her family.Throughout her six-decade career, Parton built a legacy that expanded beyond music into entrepreneurship and philanthropy.Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

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Sep 17 • 8:56 AM EDT • Entertainment • willmarradio.com
Carney embraces EU associate membership proposal

The Canadian prime minister said closer ties with the continent would ensure no country could control Canada’s markets or undermine its sovereignty

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Sep 17 • 8:54 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Carney embraces EU associate membership proposal

The Canadian prime minister said closer ties with the continent would ensure no country could control Canada’s markets or undermine its sovereignty

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Sep 17 • 8:54 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
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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Carney embraces EU associate membership proposal as Trump pushes Canada closer to Europe

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday embraced the prospect of his country becoming the European Union’s first associate member, saying closer ties with the continent would ensure no country could control Canada’s markets or undermine its sovereignty.

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Sep 17 • 8:36 AM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Mekies Praises Liam Lawson’s Maturity in Formula 1

The Austrian team's director highlights the New Zealander's evolution in his three races as Hadjar's substitute. He underlines his calmness, his focus on the essentials and the points scored in Zandvoort and Madrid, far from his inconsistent first stint in 2025.

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Sep 17 • 7:51 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Rep. Andy Ogles: There's a race to quantum computing

House Homeland Security Cyber Subcommittee Chairman Andy Ogles warns that heavy-handed government regulations on artificial intelligence could stifle U.S. innovation and allow China to win the quantum computing race.

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Sep 17 • 7:06 AM EDT • Business • foxbusiness.com
Poll finds close Michigan Senate race. Here’s how El-Sayed lags his party.

A Post-Schar School finds 53 percent of Michigan’s likely voters say they want Democrats to control the Senate, but 48 percent support Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in the Senate race.

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Sep 17 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
How Ohio’s business climate became a flashpoint in the governor’s race

Experts say Ohio's business climate—and Vivek Ramaswamy's tax proposals—are far more complicated than thought.

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Sep 17 • 5:45 AM EDT • Business • crainscleveland.com
Pete Buttigieg rallies with Mike Lawler challenger in competitive House race

Cait Conley attacked Mike Lawler over his ties to President Trump.

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Sep 17 • 5:20 AM EDT • Politics • ny1.com
Trump bashes Democrats on crime while campaigning for Michael Whatley in North Carolina

Whatley, the former Republican National Committee chairman, is facing former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper in a critical race that will help decide which party controls the Senate.

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Sep 16 • 11:31 PM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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Republican groups begin raining money down on Senate race in Texas

The GOP has committed tens of millions of dollars to support Ken Paxton in his tight race against Democrat James Talarico.

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Sep 16 • 9:30 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
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🎥 Messi hits 100 goals for Inter Miami!

Lionel Messi steals the opener from Cruz Azul and puts Inter Miami ahead in the race for the Campeones Cup title.The Argentine striker broke the deadlock with a ferocious header that left Cruz Azul go...

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Sep 16 • 8:38 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Isaiah Stewart Says Grizzlies Should Embrace Gritty Culture: ‘That’ll Wear on Teams’

Memphis Grizzlies big man Isaiah Stewart is ready to go to work with his new team.

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Sep 16 • 8:23 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
AI Race, Sticky Content, Fan Communities: Variety's Ent & Tech Summit

The AI race, the search for sticky content and fan communities are on the agenda at Variety's Entertainment and Technology Summit on Sept. 17 in L.A.

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Sep 16 • 7:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • variety.com
Here’s a Guide to the Midterm Sprint

We break down the state of the race.

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Sep 16 • 6:41 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Clash between Rick Edmonds, Blake Miguez ramps up in Louisiana congressional race

A battle over who lives where is sharpening a clash between two sitting senators who are frontrunners for a Baton Rouge-area U.S. House seat.

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Sep 16 • 4:30 PM EDT • Politics • nola.com
House votes to hold billionaire Leon Black in contempt of Congress over Epstein investigation

The House approved a resolution Wednesday holding billionaire Leon Black in contempt of Congress, referring the matter to the Department of Justice after he defied the Oversight Committee's subpoenas in its investigation into disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

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Sep 16 • 3:12 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Trump-aligned groups are pouring money into the midterm races

Big money groups aligned with President Donald Trump are pouring huge sums of cash into midterm races in the final sprint toward Election Day.

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Sep 16 • 3:11 PM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com
Reporter's Notebook: House control could hinge on whether the old political rules still apply

Trump's mid-thirties approval and high gas prices favor Democrats, but redistricting and turnout questions could keep House races razor-tight.

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Sep 16 • 3:09 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Trump-aligned groups are pouring money into the midterm races

Big money groups aligned with President Donald Trump are pouring huge sums of cash into midterm races in the final sprint toward Election Day. The groups have now reserved more

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Sep 16 • 2:33 PM EDT • Politics • kdhnews.com
Healthcare affordability is shaping competitive races ahead of the midterm elections

Healthcare costs are rising at their fastest pace in decades, just as early voting begins in Virginia. KFF Health News' Julie Rovner says the moment echoes the run-up to the Affordable Care Act — and voters are taking notice.

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Sep 16 • 2:19 PM EDT • Health • wamu.org
Verstappen wins karting race

Max Verstappen's will to win even extends to exhibition karting races after the four-time Formula One world champion went from 101st on the grid to first before even half the distance was completed. The 28-year-old Dutchman beat 100 rivals in a race at England's Silverstone track which was scheduled for 30 laps.

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Sep 16 • 2:18 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Trump administration seeks to remove race, ethnicity questions from census

The public has less than 30 days to comment on two major proposed changes

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Sep 16 • 2:18 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Trump administration seeks to remove race, ethnicity questions from census

The public has less than 30 days to comment on two major proposed changes

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Sep 16 • 2:18 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
House Primary Results 2026: A Closer Look at the Numbers Behind Incumbent Defeats

The biggest headlines from this year’s primary season seemed to trumpet races in which centrist incumbents from both major parties were ousted in favor of nominees with more extreme views. President Donald Trump publicly targeted Republican lawmakers he thinks have not been sufficiently loyal to him ...

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Sep 16 • 1:46 PM EDT • Politics • usnews.com
Leeds United thrive after formation switch

As the nascent Premier League table takes shape, the sight of Leeds United in third place feels like a throwback to the turn of the century, when they secured five top-five finishes on the bounce. The 4-1 home win over Newcastle United means Daniel Farke's unbeaten side have made their best start to a top-flight season since 2001-02 under David O'Leary. In truth, with eight points from four games, Leeds have been playing well for some time - and it can all be traced back to a bold change of formation by Farke almost nine months ago.

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Sep 16 • 1:03 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Iowa Republicans in battleground House races join vote to halt the Iran war

Two House Republicans in battleground Iowa districts changed their position on an Iran war powers resolution, joining with Democrats and a few other dissident members of their party in an attempt to halt President Donald Trump's ability to continue military action without congressional approval.

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Sep 16 • 1:00 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Primary Season Is Over. What Comes Next?

The 2026 primary season came to a close Tuesday night with incumbents and expected challengers both winning easily in Delaware. In the evening’s main race, Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat seeking a third full term in Washington, easily bested three challengers, including one who had legally changed his ...

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Sep 16 • 11:57 AM EDT • Politics • usnews.com
Award-winning Wertheim College teacher, healthcare scholar embraces visibility, FSU

He displays his love for teaching and his students on his office door and walls, reaffirms his dedication to life-changing research in his steady stream

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Sep 16 • 11:47 AM EDT • Business • news.fsu.edu
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Why awarding Monaco a sprint race completely detracts from exciting 2027 F1 calendar

Comment: Two popular venues returning and more sprint races in the schedule should be the main headline; instead, Formula 1 has bafflingly put an extra race at a circuit you can’t overtake at

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Sep 16 • 10:35 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
‘Spoilers’ happen in Oregon. Will this year’s race for governor join the list?

Pacific Green candidate Brett Smith could siphon key votes from Gov. Tina Kotek in a tight Oregon governor rematch against Republican Christine Drazan.

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Sep 16 • 9:57 AM EDT • Politics • klcc.org
Debate about data centers emerges in Donalds-Jolly gubernatorial race

Grassroots opposition to AI infrastructure because of its huge demand on local water supplies and the electrical grid had been growing more pointed since early this year, turning into an issue David Jolly and the Florida Democratic Party are using to attack Republican Byron Donalds in the Florida gubernatorial race.

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Sep 16 • 9:39 AM EDT • Politics • wlrn.org
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
Nellson Nutraceutical LLC names VP, quality and regulatory

Raj Krishnamachari rejoins the company and is succeeding Marty Hudak-Roos.

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Sep 16 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • foodbusinessnews.net
‘Spoilers’ happen in Oregon. Will this year’s race for governor join the list?

Gov. Tina Kotek is showing no signs she’s worried about a lone third-party candidate.

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Sep 16 • 9:00 AM EDT • Politics • opb.org
Trump is set to campaign in N.C. with his Senate nominee, Michael Whatley

Whatley, who was Trump’s pick for the Senate race, faces a challenging contest against Democratic former Gov. Roy Cooper.

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Sep 16 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Arsenal’s Max Dowman breaks another record amid Arteta praise

Max Dowman broke another record by scoring a brace for Arsenal against Ipswich Town on Tuesday night, and he impressed Gunners boss Mikel Arteta.Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty ImagesBy scoring two ...

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Sep 16 • 7:35 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Red Wings rally falls short as playoff race tightens

Rochester rallied from five runs down in the ninth but left the tying run aboard in a loss to Buffalo.

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Sep 16 • 7:20 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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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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Sep 16 • 1:29 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
There Are Worse Things to Do on a Wednesday

Sunderland are about to play in Europe on a Wednesday night - so why not forget the routine, embrace the moment and let yourself dream?

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Sep 16 • 1:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Congress races to stake out positions on AI

The fast-moving technology represents a rare thing in American politics: a policy arena where the entrenched political parties don’t yet have calcified positions.

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Sep 16 • 12:01 AM EDT • Politics • bostonglobe.com
Denny Hamlin Recalls Story of NASCAR’s Most Caution-Filled Race

Denny Hamlin reflected on what led to the single most cautions in a NASCAR Cup Series race. The 2005 Coca-Cola 600 saw a record 22 caution flags, due in large part to a track surface adjustment prior to the race weekend.Last Sunday’s Enjoy Illinois 300 at World Wide Technology Raceway saw 18 caution periods, coming […] The post Denny Hamlin Recalls Story of NASCAR’s Most Caution-Filled Race appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 15 • 9:14 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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New poll shows Christine Drazan with narrow lead in Oregon governor’s race

It’s just the second poll to emerge in the rematch between Drazan, a Republican, and Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek.

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Sep 15 • 7:55 PM EDT • Politics • opb.org
One-on-one: Dr. Amy Acton discusses challenges in flipping Ohio blue

In one of the most watched gubernatorial races in the country, Dr. Amy Acton believes she can be the Democrat to turn Ohio blue.

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Sep 15 • 7:54 PM EDT • Politics • news5cleveland.com
Why doomsday warnings are not the only threat to the AI juggernaut

The global AI race is being hit by very localised political and environmental concerns

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Sep 15 • 7:39 PM EDT • Politics • bbc.com
Rubio announces new visa restrictions targeting South African officials for ‘race-based discrimination’

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a new policy to restrict visas from South African officials alleged to be involved in “race-based discrimination” and “uncompensated land seizures.”

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Sep 15 • 6:00 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
22 years of science! NASA's Roman Space Telescope doubles its lifetime with super-precise engine burn

Originally planned to have a primary five-year mission followed by a five-year extended mission, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will now operate for over two decades.

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Sep 15 • 5:24 PM EDT • Science • space.com