President Trump says Iran and the United States are suddenly negotiating.
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Centuries ago, Thomas Paine envisioned a country free of arbitrary rule—from both monarchy and religion. Today, religious and secular dogma still curtail what can be said on the campaign trail.
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Confederate iconography undergoes a rethink—and then some—at two Los Angeles museum spaces. It’s a proper burial for grotesque images—but in the age of Trump, are they really dead?
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Iran, according to reports, has around 500 power plants. The vast majority run on natural gas, though a fairly impressive number are solar. Only one is nuclear. The country’s largest plant, called Damavand, is gas powered and sits about 30 miles southeast of Tehran. If Donald Trump decides to start bombing civilian power plants, as he threatened to do over the weekend if Iran does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz tonight, it would seem likely that Damavand, which produces an output of around 2,900 megawatts (point of comparison: The largest
gas-fired plant in the United States, the West County plant in Florida, has an output capacity of 3,750 MW), would be among the top targets.
Bombing it to the point of taking it offline would be a pretty large undertaking (go check it out on Google Maps—nothing is obscured, hidden, or pixelated). It would leave millions of Iranian people without power. It might also be a war crime.
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