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The United States elected a new president in November 2016: Republican Donald Trump. Nature is following Trump's first year in office, and analysing how his administration's policies could affect science. (Our coverage of the 2016 US election is here).
A reproducibility guru, a former defence-research official and a controversial entrepreneur rumoured to be on list, along with current NIH leader and a congressman.
The US president’s approval of a controversial oil pipeline offers a disturbing glimpse of the future. But he will struggle to get things all his own way.
If the Trump administration has questions on global warming, it should direct them to the national academy rather than setting up a spurious ‘red team–blue team’ debate.