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J. Robert Oppenheimer

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• Originally published 10/13/2014

  Transcripts Kept Secret for 60 Years Bolster Defense of Oppenheimer’s Loyalty

  Hundreds of newly declassified pages from the hearings suggest that Oppenheimer was anything but disloyal.

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• Originally published 11/06/2013

  The Passion of Solomon Northrup

  Eric Herschthal

  If the film is “true” to anything in the book, it should be true to Northup’s voice, not his facts; that voice is what makes “12 Years a Slave” so enduring.

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• Originally published 12/23/2016

  "It Can't Happen Here, Can It?" Will Trump and Climate Deniers Purge American Science and Technology?

  Infinity, Limited

  Is the incoming Trump administration planning a purge of government climate science research and researchers?  If historical cases such as Soviet persecution and McCarthyism offer any precedent, such a purge will prove destructive to both careers and the national interests of the United States – and give other countries the opportunity to hire top-quality American researchers.