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A woman wearing a protective facemask checks her mobile phone outside a shopping mall in Bangkok on February 4, 2020. - Thailand so far has detected 19 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus believed to have originated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, which is under lockdown. (MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP via Getty Images)

COVID-19 trutherism is rising

Erica Etelson - Alternet

COVID-19 trutherism is rising on the right

Pelosi slams Trump

Tom Boggioni - Raw Story

Pelosi drops the mic on Trump over his COVID-19 pandemic failures: "As the president fiddles, people are dying"

Breeders (FX)

"Breeders" feels your parenting pain

Melanie McFarland

Salon chats with the stars and creators about their honest FX comedy, which shows loving parents losing their minds

A taxi driver holds a flare during a protest in front of the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Chamber during a protest calling for the approval of a local new law (PLC 78/2018), to impose new rules for rideshare providers like Uber and 99 Taxi, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 10, 2019. (MAURO PIMENTEL/AFP via Getty Images)

How Uber controls Brazil's movement

Liliana Harrington

The rideshare giant’s opaque algorithms are effectively redlining low-income neighborhoods in Brazil

Doctor and pharmacist Gilles Leboucher prepares a diluted solution of phages from three different concentrated types of phages on March 8, 2019, at the Croix-Rousse hospital, in Lyon, central-eastern France. (Romain Lafabregue/AFP/Getty Images)

Coronavirus puts science on hold

Kate Yoder - Grist

The fallout of coronavirus will leave gaps in scientific data about another global crisis: climate change

Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) the spokesperson for the America First Committee (AFC) giving the Nazi arm salute during a rally on October 30, 1941 (Irving Haberman/IH Images/Getty Images)

Lindbergh's journey to racist extremism

Candace Fleming

Lindbergh's celebrity status gave him a national platform on which to share his racist views

The new Gemini smartphone from Planet Computers is updating the classic PDA design for the 21st century. (Pietro Cardoso)

5 cyber issues the coronavirus lays bare

Laura DeNardis, Jennifer Daskal - The Conversation

The pandemic is increasing society’s reliance on digital connections

Blood is drawn from a young woman ( Bernd von Jutrczenka/picture alliance via Getty Images)

New test needed to end COVID lockdowns

Igor Derysh

Developing tests that check for immunity to the coronavirus are the key to letting people return to work

Robert Reich in “Saving Capitalism” (Netflix)

Robert Reich on the system

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org

The coronavirus has starkly revealed what most of us already knew

A person wearing a protective mask looks on as homeless, informal vendors, Venezuelan migrants and people displaced by the armed conflict protest demanding humanitarian aid during the COVID-19 quarantine. (Guillermo Legaria Schweizer/Getty Images)

Media urges no mercy for Iran, Venezuela

Joe Emersberger - FAIR

As the world faces a pandemic, mainstream media is still eager to punish nations perceived as U.S. enemies

In this Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016 photo, Dr. Sherif Zaki adjusts a microscope at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. On Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, the nation's top public health agency issued a frank assessment of its recent battles against prioritized health problems, finding progress in some areas but backslide in others. Despite the mixed grades in the CDC’s report card on itself, some experts applauded CDC efforts, saying the agency had only limited abilities to prevent illness or stop people from doing things that hurt their own health. (AP Photo/Branden Camp) (AP)

COVID-19 testing will haunt the nation

Rachana Pradhan - KFF Health News

Public health officials are just beginning to grapple with fallout from CDC's early bungling of coronavirus testing

Supporters of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe rally in opposition of the Dakota Access oil pipeline in front of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

"Huge victory" for Standing Rock Sioux

Julia Conley - Common Dreams

"This is what the tribe has been fighting for many months. Their fearless organizing continues to change the game"

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Tony Fauci (L) speaks to US President Donald Trump during a tour of the National Institutes of Health's Vaccine Research Center March 3, 2020, in Bethesda, Maryland. - The US Federal Reserve announced an emergency rate cut responding to the growing economic risk posed by the coronavirus epidemic after the UN health agency said the world has entered "uncharted territory" with the outbreak's rapid spread. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

Doctors to Trump: Heed expert warnings

Julia Conley - Common Dreams

Doctors to Trump: Heed expert warnings and end dangerous campaign against social distancing

Woman talking on a cell phone, rear view (defocused) (Getty Images/ Brad Rickerby)

I tried to call my mother to say goodbye

Mary Elizabeth Williams

She and I have been estranged for years. With the world coming apart, would we get one last chance to connect?

Rudy Giuliani (Getty Images/Fox News/Salon)

Twitter blocks Rudy Giuliani

Bob Brigham - Raw Story

Twitter blocked coronavirus "misinformation" from Rudy Giuliani and another right-wing internet troll: report

A model wears a creation for Hermes' Fall-Winter 2017/2018 ready-to-wear fashion collection presented Monday, March 6, 2017 in Paris. (AP Photo/Francois Mori) (AP)

The history of social distancing

Einav Rabinovitch-Fox - The Conversation

In the past, maintaining physical distance was an important aspect of public life — and clothes played a big role

Chef and writer Samin Nosrat, Chef Marcus Samuelsson, and Chef and restaurant owner Jose Andres (AP Photo/Cliff Owen/Kathy Willens/Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP/Salon)

How top chefs cook at home on a budget

Alexandra Clinton

Learn how to make delicious and efficient meals, plus shop smarter at your local grocery store or online

FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016 file photo, An engine and part of a wing from the 100th 787 Dreamliner to be built at Boeing of South Carolina's North Charleston, S.C., facility are seen outside the plant.  (Brad Nettles/The Post and Courier via AP, File) (AP)

7 rules for the Boeing bailout

Richard J. Eskow - Independent Media Institute

As we change the way we live our lives, corporations like Boeing should change the way they are run.

Roasted Chicken (Anfisa Kameneva/EyeEm/Getty Images)

Make a perfect roast chicken at home

Joseph Neese

"A roast chicken dinner is a complete explanation of why we cook," New York Times food editor Sam Sifton says

A mother spending time with her newborn baby (Getty Images/Mikolette)

When to self-isolate from a newborn?

Katharine Gammon - Undark

Mothers with a known or likely COVID-19 infection are being asked to self-isolate from their newborns

See You on Sunday: A Cookbook for Family and Friends by Sam Sifton (Getty Images/Neilson Barnard/Random House/Salon)

How to make collard greens in a hurry

Sam Sifton

New York Times food editor Sam Sifton reveals new ways to elevate your greens when you're cooking supper at home

"Steven Universe" (Cartoon Network)

The phenomenal power of Steven Universe

Caroline Cao

How a little sci-fi children’s cartoon catapulted LGBTQ+ representation

Conceptual artwork of a pair of entangled quantum particles or events (left and right) interacting at a distance. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Why physicists don’t understand reality

Jed Brody

Quantum entanglement makes some scientists question the nature of reality — this is why

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2013, file photo, a sign marks the entrance to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. The canceled federal conference on climate change and health problem is back on but apparently minus the federal government. Former Vice President Al Gore, the University of Washington, the Harvard Global Health Institute and the American Public Health Association are resurrecting a climate change and health conference set for next month that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had planned then canceled in December. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File) (AP)

Chaos at the CDC

Caroline Chen, Marshall Allen, Lexi Churchill - ProPublica

Documents reveal how the CDC underestimated the threat of the coronavirus even as it gained a foothold in the U.S.

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