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"Cuties" (Netflix)

"Cancel Netflix" backlash over "Cuties"

Todd Spangler - Variety

The streamer stands by the film as "a social commentary against the sexualization of young children"

Basketball Court (Getty Images)

They arrested me for playing basketball

Darryl Robertson

In juvenile detention, I caught a glimpse of what funding programs aimed at helping at-risk kids instead could do

Muhammad Rehman Shirzad, a government forensic scientist, inspects an Ephedra sinica plant in the Surobi District in eastern Afghanistan. (Kern Hendricks/Undark)

Afghan officials warn of tainted cure

Ruchi Kumar - Undark

After a popular clinic closed, public health efforts are being viewed by many as an affront to Afghan culture

A woman wearing blue latex gloves and pushing a shopping cart during the COVID-19 quarantine (Getty Images)

How to shop when you're sick of cooking

Ashlie D. Stevens

Give yourself a break, embrace shortcuts, (and maybe take a chapter or two from “The Snack Plate Gospel")

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No, you can't trust "whole grain"

Bob Klein - Civil Eats

Many products labelled "100 percent whole grain" don't contain anywhere near that amount

Apple Syrup (Mary Elizabeth Williams)

Add this easy taste of fall to anything

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Fall doesn't have to taste like pumpkin spice. This easy syrup can flavor everything from cocktails to salmon

Sarah Paulson in "Coastal Elites" (HBO)

Coastal Elites: This is why they hate us

Melanie McFarland

COVID-19 forced Paul Rudnick's live theater project to move to HBO and robs it of some of its spirit in the process

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Marijuana makes it marks on ballots

Justin Franz - KFF Health News

An effort to legalize marijuana in rural, conservative states would have been an uphill battle a few years ago

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A nurse inoculates volunteer Ilya Dubrovin, 36, with Russia's new coronavirus vaccine in a post-registration trials at a clinic in Moscow on September 10, 2020. (Getty Images)

The major COVID vaccines, explained

Matthew Rozsa

From Russia to China to Europe to the U.S., these are all the major vaccine projects and their current statuses

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Nuclear power’s big new idea is small

Nathanael Johnson - Grist

Mini nuclear plants are almost here. Is the U.S. ready?

William Barr and Robert Mueller (Getty Images/Salon)

Top lawyer quits probe of Russia probe

Alex Henderson - Alternet

The investigative team is reportedly being pressed for political reasons produce a report before its work is done

A nurse applies a vaccine to her patient (Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Getty Images)

How America fails health care workers

Tom Conway - Independent Media Institute

Eight months after COVID-19 hit America, the nation continues to fail the thousands of health care workers

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A participant holding a sign at the protest. Tenants and Housing Activists gathered at Maria Hernandez Park for a rally and march in the streets of Bushwick, demanding the city administration to cancel rent immediately as the financial situation for many New Yorkers remains the same, strapped for cash and out of work. (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Designers aim to reimagine PPE

Hannah Thomasy - Undark

COVID has led to a surge in demand for personal protective equipment. Inventors have responded — with mixed results

Thomas Jefferson and Sen. Tom Cotton (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

When democracy beat theocracy — in 1810

Paul Rosenberg

Right-wing theocracy was defeated in America — 200 years ago, in a story with startling parallels to our time

Owed by Joshua Bennett (Photo illustration by Salon/photo provided by author/Penguin Publishing)

"We need reparations" not a BLM sign

D. Watkins

Bennett appeared on "Salon Talks" to discuss his new book "Owed," the reception to Black culture, and COVID lessons

Yahoo and Verizon workers protest (Jeff Barrera/Silicon Valley Rising)

Big Tech's service workers speak out

Nicole Karlis

Cafeteria workers in Silicon Valley tell Salon how they've survived the past six months

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Bob Woodward and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Woodward finds Trump's fatal flaw

Lucian K. Truscott IV

Trump's failures come from a deep, dark well of fear and cowardice. He doesn't believe in anything, even himself

Election office puts mail in ballots into a container (George Frey/Getty Images)

GOP fights voting by mail expansion

Alexa Ura, Abby Livingston - The Texas Tribune

Voting by mail is now the crux of the latest fight over who gets to vote and who has access to safe voting

Donald Trump during Press Briefing with Press Secretary Sarah Sanders (YouTube/The White House)

Trump campaign ad misspells "Nobel"

Sky Palma - Raw Story

The ad also falsely proclaimed that Trump has “has achieved PEACE in the MIDDLE EAST”

Heavy smoke from nearby wild fires covers the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco on August 20, 2020 as seen from the Marin Headlands in Sausalito, California. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

Climate crisis is happening right now

Elizabeth Weil - ProPublica

Record high temperatures. Record fires. Record smoke.

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Surrounded by members of law enforcement, U.S. President Donald Trump holds up an executive order he signed on “Safe Policing for Safe Communities” during an event in the Rose Garden at the White House June 16, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The American tradition of law-and-order

Austin Sarat - The Conversation

Trump's campaign rhetoric has been compared to Richard Nixon's and George Wallace's similar themes in 1968

Michael Caputo (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

"Downright criminal"

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams

Trump lackey Michael Caputo reportedly tried "to retroactively change agency reports" on the dangers posed by COVID

Donald Trump and Kristi Noem | People walk along Main Street during the 80th Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, South Dakota on August 8, 2020. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Kristi Noem: Worst COVID governor?

Sophia Tesfaye

This governor of a remote, rural state is a rising GOP star — but she may have mismanaged the crisis worst of all

Hugo Weaving in "The Matrix" (Warner Bros.)

The alt-right gets "The Matrix" wrong

Zack Sharf - Indiewire

"Trump doesn’t give a flying f**k about anyone else but himself. It’s just unbelievable that he’s president"

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