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House plants in pots with a bee sitting inside one of the flowers (Getty Images/Shraddha Dharmameher/FOAP)

Finding nature in quarantine

Keith A. Spencer

Two new books revel in the evolutionary beauty of weeds, moths, and the quotidian insects that live in our homes

(AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Mulling the allure, peril of state power

Michael Schulson - Undark

Governments have the power to control individual behaviors during coronavirus outbreak. How far should that go?

Frozen food in the refrigerator. (Getty Images)

3 healthy meals to freeze for later

Ashlie D. Stevens

If you're smart about prepping these meals, you won't be left without fruits and vegetables when you need them most

Chicken Pot Pie (Skyhorse Publishing)

5 comfort foods to make with chicken

Joseph Neese

If you're making dinner at home this week, think outside of the basic chicken breast

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Washington Nationals' Victor Robles watches his ball as he hits a solo home run off New York Yankees pitcher Jonathan Loaisiga during the third inning of a spring training baseball game, Thursday, March 12, 2020, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Thanks to streaming, the game plays on

Melanie McFarland

Your favorite ballgame may be benched for the season, but these alternatives can scratch any sports itch

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Sparing the rich, but not health workers

Devi Sridhar - Undark

While COVID-19 testing and protections become “luxury” goods among the wealthy, health workers are left wanting

Sen. Rand Paul, R-KY (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Rand Paul tests positive for COVID-19

Tom Boggioni - Raw Story

According to his social media post, the Senator "was not aware of any direct contact with any infected person"

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a town hall campaign event at the Rochester Opera House, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020, in Rochester, N.H. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Sanders raises $2 million

Eoin Higgins - Common Dreams

"Not Done Yet": The Bernie Sanders campaign puts its fundraising prowess to another purpose

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Heather McTeer Toney (Moms Clean Air Force)

Clean air is a "mom-partisan" issue

Lauren Schiller

An Inflection Point conversation with Heather McTeer Toney, National Field Director for Moms Clean Air Force

Person looking out at nature from their window (Getty Images/Salon)

Those imaginary dolphins in Venice

Andrew O'Hehir

A visionary meme that moved the world was largely untrue — but the hope of transformation and redemption is real

FILE – In this Oct. 23, 2015, file photo, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican presidential candidate, speaks during a balanced budget discussion with business leaders in Manchester, N.H. As the U.S. national debt ticks toward $20 trillion, Kasich says he is not abandoning his goal of a federal balanced-budget amendment, telling The Associated Press in a Tuesday, March 21, 2017, interview that the issue isn't partisan but critical to sustained economic prosperity. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File) (AP)

A weakened public health response

Mike Ludwig - Truthout

Public health accounts for less than 3 percent of overall health expenditures

Seth Meyers, Samantha Bee, Stephen Colbert, and John Oliver (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images/TBS/John Filo/CBS/Lloyd Bishop/NBC/HBO)

Comedy in the time of the coronavirus

Sophia A. McClennen

COVID-19 isn't funny. But making fun of dangerous and stupid political and public responses is important

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An activist shows sex workers how to apply hand sanitizer during an awareness campaign to promote safe measures against the spread of the new Coronavirus, COVID-19. (Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP via Getty Images)

Sex workers struggling during pandemic

Nicole Karlis

As the novel coronavirus causes significant income loss, many sex workers have no safety net

Immigration Detention Center (J. Emilio Flores/Corbis via Getty Images)

Calls for Trump to release detainees

Julián Aguilar - The Texas Tribune

Federal agencies put immigrants and immigration workers at risk amid coronavirus

(Getty/Koldunova_Anna)

Stop comparing coronavirus to the flu

Charles Ornstein - ProPublica

This coronavirus is unlike anything in our lifetime

US President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the Oval Office about the widening Coronavirus crisis on March 11, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)

A revolution by pandemic

Bob Hennelly

The coronavirus pandemic raises questions as to whether capitalism has failed

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In this June 10, 2016 photo provided by the Mayo Clinic, a medical team of about 60 doctors, nurses, anesthesiologists and others at Mayo Clinic gather before performing the first face transplant surgery at their hospital in Rochester, Minn. Mardini and his team devoted more than 50 Saturdays over 3 1/2 years to rehearsing the procedure, using sets of cadaver heads to transplant the face of one to another. They used 3D imaging and virtual surgery to plot out the bony cuts so the donor's face would fit perfectly on Andy Sandness. (Michael Cleary/Mayo Clinic via AP) (AP)

Case for shortening medical education

Anuska Jain, Robert Orr

The impacts of physician shortages are evident throughout the U.S. health care system

Fracking Drilling Rig at the Golden Hour (Getty Images)

The end is near — at least for fracking

Juan Cole - Truthdig

With prices plunging, the entire oil industry is in peril. What's bad for investors is good for the planet

U.S. Attorney General William Barr (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

"Oh hell no"

Eoin Higgins - Common Dreams

DOJ Using Coronavirus Crisis to Push for Expansive Emergency Powers

Jerry Falwell, Jr. (Getty/John Moore)

Thanks to Jerry Falwell Jr.

John Stoehr - Alternet

We owe Jerry Falwell Jr. a debt of gratitude

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Leonid Brezhnev; Vladimir Putin (Getty/Keystone/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

When Brezhnev comes to America

Alexei Bayer - The Globalist

Today's U.S. Republicans are the equivalent of the Brezhnev crew in the late-stage Soviet Union.

A close up of President Donald J. Trump's notes shows where Corona was crossed out "Corona" and replaced with "Chinese" Virus (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

We can learn COVID-19 myths

Anita Makri - Undark

The tactic of simply throwing facts at the misinformation problem can be ineffective, and even counterproductive

Young Adult Woman At Home Watering Indoor House Plants (Getty Images)

Growing hope indoors in Trump's America

Alex Dew

I may not be able to save the world from Donald Trump, but I can save my plants from root rot and spider mites

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear discusses developments in Kentucky regarding the new coronavirus in Frankfort, Ky. (AP Photo/Bruce Schreiner)

A sex symbol emerges: "Govern me, daddy"

Erin Keane

People are now lusting after Kentucky's "hot Mr. Rogers" because of his calm and empathetic leadership

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