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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

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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

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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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FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2017, file photo, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. speaks during an Associated Press interview in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington. It's a rare and momentous decision, one by one, seated at desks centuries old, senators will stand and cast their votes for a Supreme Court nominee. It's a difficult political call in the modern era, especially for the 10 Democrats facing tough re-election next year in states that President Donald Trump won.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) (AP)

Joe Manchin nails Mitch McConnell

David Edwards - Raw Story

Sen. Joe Manchin erupts into shouting match with McConnell over Senate Republicans' coronavirus bailouts

Donald Trump (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Retired doctors, nurses don scrubs again

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News

"Nurses are used to giving of themselves. If there’s not enough people, you just do it," one retired nurse said

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Bernie 2020: How it all went wrong

Anis Shivani - Common Dreams

For a moment, Bernie 2.0 seemed like a campaign of destiny. But its "political revolution" was fundamentally flawed

Former first lady Michelle Obama speaks at a rally to encourage voter registration Sept. 23, 2018, in Las Vegas. (AP/John Locher)

Michelle Obama: The other woman?

Alton Frye - The Globalist

If anyone can change the former first lady's mind, a bended-knee visit by Joe Biden should do the trick

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Sheltering in Place with Classic Albums (Getty Images/Salon)

Cue the Marvin Gaye: "What's Going On"

Kenneth Womack

We're sheltering in place with these classic albums — solid music for uncertain times

President Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Scientists: Trump bungled this badly

Matthew Rozsa

"Trump's reaction was ... if not the worst in the world ... among the worst in the world. It was dangerous."

(Getty/Joe Raedle)

Construction workers are screwed

Hamilton Nolan - In These Times

It is hard to know whether those construction workers who are still working should be considered lucky

(Getty/Olivier Douliery)

Trump undercuts coronavirus oversight

Matthew Chapman - Raw Story

Trump says he has the power to block provision of stimulus that informs Congress where the corporate bailouts go

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President Donald Trump (Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

We'll never see Trump cry

Lucian K. Truscott IV

For Trump, there's only one victim: himself. He fears political defeat more than the deaths of millions

Donald Trump; Rush Limbaugh (AP/Evan Vucci/Chris Carlson)

Limbaugh questions Trump's task force

Alex Henderson - Alternet

Limbaugh questions Trump's coronavirus team: "How do we know they're even health experts?"

President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room, Friday, March 27, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

How will we know when it's safe?

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch

Public health experts have a plan for ending this crisis. Trump doesn't — and he must be measured by that standard

President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Lupus patients face drug shortages

Sara Talpos - Undark

Limited evidence that a common lupus drug might combat COVID-19 is driving up demand. Lupus patients are worried.

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