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In the heart of the Mojave Desert, where the sun's relentless rays paint the landscape in hues of gold and amber, lies a realm of unimaginable beauty and astonishing extremes - Death Valley National Park. Straddling the border between California and Nevada, this vast expanse of wilderness is a testament to the awe-inspiring power and resilience of nature itself. It is a place where the very forces that have shaped our planet over countless millennia are laid bare, where the Earth's crust has been rent asunder and sculpted into a landscape of breathtaking contrasts and startling beauty. As we ...

How did we become a world where facts—shared truths—have lost their power to hold us together as a community, as a country, globally? How have we allowed the proliferation of alternative facts, hoaxes, even conspiracy theories, to destroy our trust in institutions, leaders, and legitimate...

Cohen shows how smart guys like Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, and Mark Zuckerberg fell in love with a radically individualistic ideal and then mainstreamed it. With these very rich men leading the way, unions, libraries, public schools, common courtesy, and even government itself have been pushed aside to make way for supposedly efficient market-based encounters via the Internet. Donald Trump's election victory was an inadvertent triumph of the "disruption" that Silicon Valley has been pushing. A society that belittles civility, empathy, and collaboration can easily be led astray.