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JOAQUIN PHOENIX as Joker in Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures and BRON Creative’s “JOKER,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. (Niko Tavernise)

Joker doesn't deserve Golden Globe nods

Matthew Rozsa

"Joker" continues to be divisive critically, especially now with it entering the awards season fray

Ranking member Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) speaks as Chairman Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) listens during testimony by constitutional scholars before the House Judiciary Committee in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill December 4, 2019 in Washington, DC. This is the first hearing held by the Judiciary Committee in the impeachment inquiry against U.S. President Donald Trump, whom House Democrats say held back military aid for Ukraine while demanding it investigate his political rivals. The Judiciary Committee will decide whether to draft official articles of impeachment against President Trump to be voted on by the full House of Representatives. (Saul Loeb-Pool/Getty Images)

GOP's last line: Pure tribal hatred

Amanda Marcotte

During the "opening arguments" hearing, Republicans stick to conspiracy theories and claims that Trump is a victim

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

Michelle Obama weighs in on imepachment

Brad Reed - Raw Story

Obama then put the impeachment inquiry in historical perspective, saying: "We’ve seen tough times in this country"

Ted Cruz on the December 8th, 2019 airing of Meet The Press (NBC)

Cruz's Ukraine conspiracy draws laughter

Igor Derysh

The Texan pushed a debunked Russian talking point that Ukraine “blatantly interfered in our election” on live TV

Administrator for the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services, Seema Verma, and Ivanka Trump (Steven Ferdman/Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Medicare head asks taxpayers for $47K

Igor Derysh

Seema Verma was reimbursed less than $3,000 after filing a claim that included $325 for stolen moisturizer

Jerry Nadler and Adam Schiff (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call/Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Senate trial will be a total sh**show

Heather Digby Parton

Republicans' likely strategy is to spread nutso conspiracy theories far and wide. How will Democrats respond?

Chris Hedges and Donald Trump (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster/Oliver Morris/Getty Images/Salon)

Chris Hedges: Impeachment won't fix it

Chauncey DeVega

Impeaching Trump without addressing America's deeper structural problems, says Hedges, will only make things worse

A layer of pollution can be seen hovering over Los Angeles, California (Getty/Frederic J. Brown)

Air pollution and public health

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist

Worldwide, outdoor air pollution is responsible for an estimated 4.2 million deaths per year.

Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Julian Castro, Cory Booker, Michael Bloomberg, Andrew Yang, and Amy Klobuchar (Getty Images/Salon)

Your guide to the 2020 Democrats

Matthew Rozsa

Kamala Harris is out. Mike Bloomberg and Deval Patrick, for some reason, are in. Here's the field, at least today

A picture taken on July 4, 2019 shows bees collecting nectar on a sunflower in a field in Weisskirchen, Germany. (Boris Roessler/AFP/Getty Images)

Climate change affecting social insects

Madison Sankovitz - Massive Science

Changes in animals’ habitats may disrupt the chemical signals they leave behind

(Getty/stelo)

What’s the value of your dog’s life?

Simon F. Haeder, Deven Carlson, Joe Ripberger - The Conversation

Your lovable dog has a value of about $10,000, researchers suggest.

Girl doing homework (Getty Images)

Why children have too much homework

Shira Tarlo

Children need unstructured play time, experts say — and over-assigning homework is disrupting that

Food stylist: Anna Billingskog. Prop stylist: Brooke Deonarine. (James Ransom/Food52)

Tasty stuffed peppers with requeijão

Taryn Pire - Food52

Requeijão cremoso is both mildly sweet and salty — and beyond creamy.

The exterior of Foothills Meats in Black Mountain, North Carolina. (Ashlie Stevens)

What meat trend is the next pork belly?

Ashlie D. Stevens

Pork belly had its time in the sun (and on skewers, in poutine, etc.) but it's time another cut of meat is elevated

Harvard grad students out on strike held a rally outside University Hall and then marched around Harvard Yard. (David L Ryan/Globe Staff ) SECTION: METRO TOPIC 04harvard (David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Opinion: Let graduate students unionize

Marissa Knoll - Undark

The government claims graduate students at private universities shouldn't be considered employees. That’s a mistake

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Pensacola Bay Center in Pensacola Fla. Trump is a part-time Florida resident - and a full-time problem for its home-state senator, Marco Rubio. Rubio is counting on Florida to reshape the Republican presidential contest that Trump has so far dominated by winning three of the first four states to vote.  (AP Photo/) (AP/Michael Snyder, File)

Trump adviser: Shooting may be terrorism

Matthew Rozsa

National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien said the Pensacola naval base shooting "appears to be a terrorist attack"

Stills from Work In Progress and The L Word: Generation Q (Hilary Bronwyn Gayle/Jean Whiteside/SHOWTIME)

Bye, "L Word." Hello "Work in Progress"

Melanie McFarland

Showtime's reboot is the return of a bad ex-friend, but its neurotic, sensitive new comedy feels like a keeper

(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Why is it so hard to stop eating?

Tera Fazzino, Kaitlyn Rohde - The Conversation

Certain combinations of fat, sodium, sugar or carbohydrates make some foods irresistible.

Syrian refugee children run at an informal refugee camp, at Al-Marj town in Bekaa valley, east Lebanon Lebanon, Saturday, April 8, 2017. For the millions of Syrian refugees scattered across camps and illegal settlements across the region, the chemical attack on a town in northern Syria and subsequent U.S. strike was a rare moment when the world briefly turned its attention to Syria, before turning away again.(AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) (AP)

Climate drove Syrian refugees to Lebanon

Hussein A. Amery - The Conversation

Climate is a major obstacle for many people when they consider returning to their homeland.

In this Dec. 3, 2015, photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition Presidential Forum in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (AP)

Jewish Democratic leader denounces Trump

Matthew Rozsa

The head of the Jewish Democratic Council of America told Salon that Trump has "a very negative stereotype of Jews"

This photo taken on August 6, 2017 shows cleared forest land, previously covered with illegally-planted oil palm trees and removed by workers from the Leuser Conservation Forum or Forum Konservasi Leuser (FKL), ahead of replanting of endemic vegetation in the Aceh Tamiang area of Aceh province. (Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP via Getty Images)

"Orangutan capital” is being destroyed

Laurel Sutherlin - Truthout

Food manufacturers may be causing the destruction of a nationally protected wildlife reserve in Indonesia

This illustration shows the white dwarf WDJ0914+1914 and its Neptune-like exoplanet. Since the icy giant orbits the hot white dwarf at close range, the extreme ultraviolet radiation from the star strips away the planet’s atmosphere. While most of this stripped gas escapes, some of it swirls into a disc, itself accreting onto the white dwarf. (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

A dissolving exoplanet's prophesy

Nicole Karlis

A strange exoplanet orbiting a white dwarf gives a peek at the future of our own solar system

(Getty/Just_Super)

From skull to skin

Abigail Zuger M.D. - Undark

In "The Body: A Guide for Occupants," Bill Bryson meanders around our organs, seeking out the strange & unexpected

Stephen Colbert; Donald Trump (Getty/Frederick M. Brown/AP/Evan Vucci)

Why Donald Trump simply isn't funny

Paul Rosenberg

Media scholar Dannagal Goldthwaite Young talks Colbert, Oliver, Maddow — and Donald Trump's humor impairment

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