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Nurse Kim Gates draws blood from Heidi Wyandt, 27, at the Altoona Center for Clinical Research in Altoona, Pa., on Wednesday, March 29, 2017, where Wyandt is helping test an experimental non-opioid pain medication for chronic back pain related to a work related injury she received in 2014. With about 2 million Americans hooked on opioid painkillers, researchers and drug companies are searching for less addictive drugs to treat pain. (AP Photo/Chris Post) (AP)

Opioid crisis leads to larger crisis

Pauline Bartolone - KFF Health News
(Shutterstock/DedMityay)

Adult brains don't grow new neurons

Shawn Sorrells, Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, Mercedes Paredes - The Conversation
Mick Mulvaney (Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

Mick Mulvaney: Dark-hearted leprechaun

Andrew O'Hehir
(Shutterstock/Salon)

Mental health treatment and violence

Sarah Desmarais - The Conversation
(Getty/areeya_ann)

Is hormonal birth control "dangerous"?

Nina Brochmann, Ellen Støkken Dahl
John Oliver; Donald Trump; Devin Nunes; Stephen Colbert (AP/Getty/Salon)

The science of how satire can save us

Sophia A. McClennen
(Shutterstock)

What the frack?

Wenonah Hauter - Alternet
Noreen Farrell; Mira Sorvino (Chuck Revell)

Women are less protected than gun owners

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Donald Trump Jr. (Getty/Drew Angerer)

When a celebrity villain gets dumped

Erin Keane
Nazanin Boniadi as Clare in "Counterpart" (Starz)

Counterpart: The best of all worlds

Melanie McFarland
John Bailey (AP/Jordan Strauss)

Academy president accused of harassment

Rachel Leah
(Getty/supershabashnyi)

Air travel needs its #MeToo moment

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Shepard Smith; Sean Hannity (AP/Richard Drew/Getty/Saul Loeb)

Hanny throws barbs at Fox's journalist

Shira Tarlo
(AP/Richard Drew)

Goldman Sachs justifies its gender gap

Rachel Leah
(Getty/lcodacci)

Congratulations, it's a "manel"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Annabella Sciorra (Getty/Jemal Countess)

Time for Annabella Sciorra's renaissance

Melanie McFarland
FILE - This May 18, 2015 file photo shows irrigation pipes along a dry irrigation canal on a field near Stockton, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) (AP)

Drought leaves West out to dry

Eric Holthaus - Grist
"The Boombox Collection: Zion I" (Mohammad Gorjestani)

Meet working class hip hop hero Zion I

Tom Roston
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (Courtesy of Author/Seal Press)

My white-privilege wakeup call

Lauren Schiller
(AP/Julio Cortez)

I don't want to grow up

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Katy Perry kisses contestant Benjamin Glaze on "American Idol" (ABC/Mark Levine)

Keep your lips to yourself, Katy Perry

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(YouTube/The Late Show)

White House turmoil on display

Charlie May
Charles Koch; David Koch (CBS/AP/Photo montage by Salon)

Koch brothers vs. God

Kenya Downs - Grist
White nationalist Matthew Heimbach fights with demonstrators at Michigan State University as he and other alt-right advocates try to attend a speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer, March 5, 2018. (Getty/Scott Olson)

A hate group's self-destruction

Erin Keane
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