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"Sex and the City"

SATC needs to reboot view on hetero sex

Beth Johnson - The Conversation

While romance never goes out of fashion, women’s sexuality and how it’s represented on screen has come a long way

Staff and volunteers distribute the COVID-19 vaccine to people as they remain in their vehicles at The Forum in Inglewood Tuesday. The Forum is one of five mass-vaccination sites that opened Tuesday in Los Angeles county. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

California's vaccine roll-out is a mess

Nicole Karlis

The current surge and an underfunded public health system created a storm of disarray

(Mark Weinberg / Food52)

How to make Instant Pot boiled eggs

Sarah Jampel - Food52

Achieve perfect soft-, medium- and hard-boiled eggs in your Instant Pot — no guesswork required

A group of students are indoors in their high school classroom (Getty Images)

Splitting "white" & "privilege" in class

Ritika Goel - The Conversation

Associating "white" with "privilege" in the classroom can harm academic performance among students of color

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Thomas Jefferson | Black Lives Matter Plaza poster is seen on a building on the 16th Street NW next to the St. John's Episcopal Church (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Religious freedom meets Black liberation

Paul Rosenberg

Out of America's paradoxical history of religious liberty comes a great push for Black freedom and racial justice

Donald Trump | Twitter Logo (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Twitter)

Cognitive bias and our post-truth era

Lee McIntyre - MIT Press Reader

Our built-in biases help explain our post-truth era, when “alternative facts” replace actual facts

Painting with John (John Lurie)

"Painting With John" subverts Bob Ross

Ashlie D. Stevens

The Lounge Lizards founder John Lurie promptly subverts the Bob Ross formula

Joe Biden is sworn in as U.S. President during his inauguration on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC.  During today's inauguration ceremony Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

How we interpret religion has evolved

Samuel L. Boyd - The Conversation

The meaning of "religion" has changed, and the modern-day concept may have nothing to do with the word's origins

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A patient with the COVID-19 breaths in oxygen in the COVID-19 ward at Khayelitsha Hospital, about 35km from the centre of Cape Town, on December 29, 2020. (RODGER BOSCH/AFP via Getty Images)

The scariest coronavirus mutation yet

Matthew Rozsa

A new study reveals that a large number of people with COVID-19 antibodies may not be protected from the new strain

President Joe Biden speaks during the the 59th inaugural ceremony on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. During today's inauguration ceremony Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States. (Patrick Semansky-Pool/Getty Images)

"Unity" with Trumpers? It's a trap

Chauncey DeVega

Joe Biden's inaugural address was soaring, Lincoln-esque oratory — but his vision of national unity is dangerous

Coronavirus vaccine vials in hospital (Getty Images)

"Trial & error" in Vaccine distribution

Elizabeth Miller - Undark

Rural clinics face unique challenges in connecting perishable vaccines with residents who often live miles away

President Donald J. Trump (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Neglecting history could bring him back

Jim Sleeper

This national trauma should remind us that history is more than the rear-view mirror. It's also our necessary armor

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Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How will historians remember Trump?

Matthew Rozsa

Historians will remember Trump as an aspiring dictator who failed because he was too dumb to understand COVID-19

Donald Trump on the phone in the Oval Office (Getty Images/Alex Wong)

Trump's second failed coup

Bob Brigham

Bombshell New York Times report: Trump tried to oust acting AG to overturn the election results

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Calls to cancel student loans continue

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams

"Biden can cancel all $1.7 trillion of student debt by executive order," said The Debt Collective

Steve Bannon, former White House Chief Strategist, attends the media conference Nordiske Mediedager 2019 in Bergen. (Gonzales Photo/Jarle H. Moe/PYMCA-Avalon/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Despite bans, Bannon is still on Apple

Lydia DePillis - ProPublica

Bannon broadcasts election denialism and apocalyptic calls to action several times a day via Apple’s podcast app

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A pro-Trump mob floods into the Capitol Building after breaking into it on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. A pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, breaking windows and clashing with police officers. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Fired for storming the Capitol?

Elizabeth C. Tippett - The Conversation

Non-unionized workers in the United States — about 90% of all workers — are employed at-will

Tom Cotton (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Cotton: Not an Army Ranger after all

Roger Sollenberger

Arkansas senator has repeatedly said he served as "a U.S. Army Ranger in Iraq and Afghanistan." That's not true

un peeks out from behind the clouds in woman's head. (Getty Images)

Your brain is free at last! Now what?

Melanie McFarland

For five years an Orange Menace camped out in our brains. Now he's gone, what is possible? TV might have answers

Mosquito on the nose of cat (Getty Images)

Catnip does more than get cats high

Matthew Rozsa

A new study reveals that cats may use plants like catnip and silver vine to help ward off mosquitos

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Firefighters and paramedics with Anne Arundel County Fire Department wear enhanced PPE, during the coronavirus pandemic, as they treat a patient in cardiac arrest as a result of a drug overdose on May 6, 2020, in Brooklyn, Maryland. (ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

"Stealth" opioid overdoses on the rise

Nicole Karlis

The opioid crisis and the pandemic are at least psychologically linked, as isolated people turn to drugs to cope

Donald Trump and Don Jr. (Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla/Scott Olson)

Don Jr. picks up where his dad left off

Jon Skolnik

Don Jr. is taking on the family mantle of tweeter-in-chief to level fallacious attacks at President Biden

U.S. President Joe Biden prepares to sign a series of executive orders at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office just hours after his inauguration on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. Biden became the 46th president of the United States earlier today during the ceremony at the U.S. Capitol. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

After Trump overdose, media must refocus

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch

Political media must pivot from "What did the president just say?" to a focus on what's actually getting done

Adarsh Gourav in "The White Tiger" (Tejinder Singh Khamkha/Netflix)

"The White Tiger" is terrifcally cynical

Gary M. Kramer

In this Netflix film, Balram dares to take advantage of every opportunity to change the hand society dealt him

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