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Some of them are artful and literary. Some of them are weird. Many are sweet and thoughtful. (MIT Press Reader)

An essential guide to mobile games

Shira Chess - MIT Press Reader

From the literary to the weird, here are some of my favorite games to help distract you while you’re stuck inside.

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

How to make a COVID-19 vaccine

Matthew Rozsa

Dr. William Haseltine, a biologist, explains how one goes about the task of vaccinating for the coronavirus

Bread fresh out of the oven (Getty Images)

Baking our way through survival

Ashlie D. Stevens

Beyond providing catharsis and sustenance, breadmaking is also an optimistic endeavor

Tattered American flag flapping in ominous sky (Getty Images)

Sad state of US, global economic affairs

Richard Phillips - The Globalist

To peer into the abyss, just take a look at the fiscal and monetary situations in the United States

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The Daily Show Witch Trevor Noah: Social Distancing Edition (Comedy Central)

Live from home: Late night in quarantine

Melanie McFarland

With the rest of TV production on hold, late night hosts step up to help us adjust to a new normal

Medical personnel transport the first patient affected by COVID-19 to an ICU tent ( Emanuele Cremaschi/Stringer/Getty Images)

Nurses, docs fear for lack of PPE

Seth Holmes, Liza Buchbinder

“Who knows how many of us have been exposed?” one nurse said

This photo taken Thursday, July 9, 2015, is the headquarters of Gilead Sciences in Foster City, Calif.  Harvoni, the newest pill from California-based Gilead Sciences, accounted for more than three-fourths of the prescriptions filled for hepatitis-C drugs in the first three months of this year, according to IMS Health. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

We already paid for COVID-19 treatments

Alex Lawson - Independent Media Institute

U.S. taxpayers have already paid for the research and testing of the most promising treatments

A man wearing a respirator walks through an eerily empty Times Square in New York, the United States, March 26, 2020 (Xinhua/M IchaelNagle/wangying via Getty Images)

Plague diary: The empire strikes back

Andrew O'Hehir

Daily life assumes a strange, quiet new rhythm — even at the epicenter. But the captains of Capital are freaked out

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Pandemic is going to cost us trillions

David Cay Johnston - DCReport

The numbers are devastating

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

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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

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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

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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

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