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The 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet called HD 106906 b, shown in this artist's illustration, occupies an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away. It may be offering clues to something that might be much closer to home: a hypothesized distant member of our solar system dubbed "Planet Nine." This is the first time that astronomers have been able to measure the motion of a massive Jupiter-like planet that is orbiting very far away from its host stars and visible debris disk. ( NASA/M. Kornmesser/ESA/Hubble)

We just met Planet Nine's twin

Nicole Karlis

An exotic planet far from its parent star has all the same properties that we hypothesize for Planet Nine

Donald Trump (Erin Schaff - Pool/Getty Images)

Trump's GOP loyalists have one last plan

Tom Boggioni - Raw Story

According to the NYTimes, if Trump gives the thumbs-up, a "messy and deeply divisive spectacle" will follow

Donald Trump | Social Security checks are run through a printer at the U.S. Treasury printing facility (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump launches attack on Social Security

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams

"Joe Biden needs to undo these cruel regulations—and clean house at SSA—on day one"

Barack Obama | Defund The Police sign (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

No, Obama, we do mean defund the police

D. Watkins

The former president thinks the "snappy slogan" is turning people off. I know someone he should meet and listen to

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Women wearing face masks fill out vote-by-mail ballots at the Orange County Supervisor of Elections office on October 15, 2020 in Orlando, Florida. (Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Why the Black vote is crucial

Dean Obeidallah

"I find it's a cop-out to blame these things on Trump. This is the GOP playbook: They don't want us to vote"

Kamala Harris and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Liberalism and its profound discontents

Peter Hammond Schwartz

Right-wingers have a theory of human nature and the universe. Without such a narrative, liberals will keep losing

US Attorney General William Barr speaks on Operation Legend, the federal law enforcement operation, during a press conference in Chicago, Illinois, on September 9, 2020. (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Best thing about a new AG: Not Barr

Terry H. Schwadron - DCReport

There’s a whole lot at Bill Barr’s Justice Department that needs undoing, but some things should be left alone

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury nominee Janet Yellen speaks during an event to name President-elect Joe Biden’s economic team at the Queen Theater on Dec. 1, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

How Yellen could shape climate politics

Zoya Teirstein - Grist

Yellen is likely to be confirmed, and will play a major role in executing Biden’s ambitious climate goals

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The United States-Mexico border wall is seen in Organ Pipe National Park south of Ajo, Arizona (SANDY HUFFAKER/AFP via Getty Images)

An intro to "fence ecology"

Alex McInturff, Christine Wilkinson, Wenjing Xu - The Conversation

Fences like the U.S.-Mexico Border wall complicate ecosystems and can create an ecological "no man's land"

A health care worker holds an injection syringe of the phase 3 vaccine trial, developed against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic by the U.S. Pfizer and German BioNTech company, at the Ankara University Ibni Sina Hospital in Ankara, Turkey on October 27, 2020. (Dogukan Keskinkilic/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Concerns grow over equal vaccine access

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams

Advocates warn that 9 out of 10 people in poor countries are set to miss out on Covid-19 vaccine in 2021

Campaign signs are seen at Westchester Regional Library in Miami, Florida on October 19, 2020. (EVA MARIE UZCATEGUI/AFP via Getty Images)

Secret Democrat married to a Trump voter

Heather Christie

I finally stopped hiding who I really am. I guess that's one thing I can thank the outgoing president for

Incumbent candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaks to the media during a campaign bus tour on November 2, 2020 in Rock Hill, South Carolina. (Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

Republicans: "We’re in a very bad place"

Matthew Chapman - Raw Story

Sen. Lindsey Graham is among those under fire from within the party for backing Trump's lawsuits

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Cheesecake, reprinted from PIE FOR EVERYONE: Recipes and Stories from Petee's Pie, New York's Best Pie Shop by Petra Paredez. (Photos copyright © 2020 by Victor Garzon/Published by ABRAMS)

Did you know cheesecake is really a pie?

Petra (Petee) Paredez, Joseph Neese

Did you know cheesecake is really a pie? Here's how to make it the right way from the owner of Petee's Pie Company

(Courtesy Meghan McGarry/Buttercream Blondie)

Brunch? This orange cranberry crumb cake

Joseph Neese

A no-fuss recipe translates into "no stress" — and that's an easy win for any holiday occasion, including Christmas

(Photo courtesy of Vote.org / Civil Eats)

How the social justice movement was fed

Andy Hirschfeld - Civil Eats

As the pandemic slammed their businesses, some chefs and catering businesses found a new calling

The Mandalorian (Disney+)

Star Wars expands – in unoriginal ways

Melanie McFarland

Sure, we're excited to see Lando Calrissian and Boba Fett, but reliance on past characters isn't very reassuring

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The Wilds (Amazon)

The Wilds: Amazon's YA dystopian drama

Ann Donahue - Indiewire

Amazon Prime Video’s first YA series is a bold, empathetic entry in the dystopian genre

Prop stylist: Amanda Widis. Food stylist: Anna Billingskog. (Rocky Luten / Food52)

A Hanukkah latke, egg and cheese sammie

Rebecca Firkser - Food52

"Potato pancake inside of the egg sandwich?" It's delicious

Protesters hold banners and shout slogans during the 12th day of protests against the Constitutional Court ruling on tightening the abortion law in front of the Archbishops Palace on November 02, 2020 in Krakow, Poland. The country's constitutional tribunal recently ruled that terminating pregnancies due to serious, irreversible fetal defects is unconstitutional. The decision sparked a wave of protests against the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS). (Omar Marques/Getty Images)

Mass protests for reproductive rights

Julie Burkhart

Poland is a reminder that when authoritarians take power, attacks on reproductive rights often follow

Wolfwalkers (Apple TV+)

"Wolfwalkers": A tale of love and loss

David Ehrlich - Indiewire

Cartoon Saloon's "Wolfwalkers" fulfills the promise of "The Secret of Kells" and "Song of the Sea"

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Donald Trump and Bill Barr (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump "infuriated" by Bill Barr: report

Bob Brigham - Raw Story

The Wall Street Journal reports that Trump may appoint 2 special counsels in his final days in office

Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Can we get back to real politics yet?

David Masciotra

Americans are overworked, plagued with debt and imprisoned by inequality. Real politics must be about changing that

Ilhan Omar (Cheriss May/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Billions for defense, none for families

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams

Omar called it a "bill to appease defense contractors and special interests"

Former Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono outside of the Times Square recording studio 'The Hit Factory' before a recording session of his final album 'Double Fantasy' in August 1980 in New York City, New York. (Getty Images/Salon)

Critics got "Double Fantasy" all wrong

Kenneth Womack

Looking back at the album released weeks before Lennon's death, it's clear that "flaccid" isn't the word for it

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