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Twenty-Four Grueling Hours in Trumpland
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Between the shady unverified intelligence dossier, Trump's strange press conference, and the Rex Tillerson hearings, this has been a head-spinning 24 hours. We called up Slate's War Stories correspondent Fred Kaplan to make sense of it all. Kaplan is most recently the author of Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War.
In the Spiel, an analysis of President Obama's farewell and the meaning of activism.
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