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Grounded: America’s War on Knowledge

How budget cuts, disappearing data, and a brain drain threaten science, democracy, and the future.

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Jul 14, 2025
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TL;DR: In just months, the U.S. has slashed science budgets, erased critical public data, and driven hundreds of scholars abroad, a coordinated war on knowledge that threatens both American leadership and democracy itself. If we don’t act now, the damage could take decades to repair.

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