Checkmate

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Exhausting

“The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” 

—Garry Kasparov, chess master champion, via Twitter, Dec. 16, 2016.

• Editorial Comment: Take no prisoners. Whack a few pawns.



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