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Kim McIntyre, from LaJolla, Calif., along with her dog Benji rest on the beach in Encinitas, Calif., Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016. California is having another day of unseasonable warmth before a low-pressure system brings rain and snow. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi) (AP)

Say goodbye to another heat record

Shannon Osaka - Grist

Temperature records have become a fixture of 21st-century life under climate change.

In this Friday, Feb. 17, 2017, photo, an American flag hangs on the front of the New York Stock Exchange. Global stock markets traded in fairly narrow ranges Tuesday, Feb. 28, as investors awaited a speech by President Donald Trump to both houses of Congress that could have a major bearing on the outlook for all types of financial assets in the near-term. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan) (AP)

Stock market boom—not shared prosperity

Thomas I. Palley - The Globalist

The U.S. addiction to stock price inflation is rooted in an illusion

Concept: The New York Times' take on Coronavirus, featuring a 1882 illustrated depiction of diseases emanating from Chinatown. (Getty Images/WikiCommons/Salon)

The racist art of naming a virus

Marie Myung-Ok Lee

The rhetoric around 2019-nCoV — the "Wuhan coronavirus" — plays on centuries-old racist sentiments against Asians

Comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko (ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team/Salon)

Why a nearby comet keeps changing colors

Nicole Karlis

Two years of data from the ESA's Rosetta spacecraft revealed that Comet 67P changes between red and blue

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Tommy (CBS)

With "Tommy," CBS is trying to be woke

Melanie McFarland

Edie Falco soars in this procedural placing social justice themes from and center on TV's least progressive network

An audience member arrives at a rally for 2020 Democratic presidential candidate at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Trump fans flooded Iowa results hotline

Igor Derysh

"The unexplained, and at times hostile, calls contributed to the delay," a Democratic official in Iowa confirmed

Yelling Awards Statues (Getty Images/Salon)

Why Hollywood speaks up at the Oscars

Naomi McDougall Jones

Hollywood maintains its status quo by making the loss of status the biggest fear in the room

Whoopi Goldberg and Meghan McCain on The View (ABC)

Meghan livid Whoopi compared Mitt to dad

Travis Gettys - Raw Story

“With all due respect, Mitt Romney is nothing like my dad"

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Susan Collins on her decision to vote to acquit Trump (Fox News)

Collins: Perhaps I was wrong about Trump

Igor Derysh

"I may not be correct on that," Collins tells Fox News. "It's more aspirational on my part"

Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

Sanders closes gap on Buttigieg in Iowa

Igor Derysh

Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez called for a recanvass of the votes over missing and erroneous data

Ashley Judd attends "Time's Up" during the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival at Spring Studios on April 28, 2018 in New York City. (Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival)

Ashley Judd stumps for Warren

Amanda Marcotte

Actress and former Weinstein accuser hits small-town New Hampshire to pitch Elizabeth Warren's "electability"

Fox & Friends (Fox News)

"Fox & Friends" fume at Mitt Romney

Brad Reed - Raw Story

The senator from Utah cited his Mormon faith when discussing his vote to remove the president from office

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Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden (AP Photo/Salon)

Iowa's screw-up: Biden's comeuppance?

Sophia Tesfaye

Iowa's verdict is still muddled — but for Joe Biden, no way to "sugarcoat" this disaster. It could get worse

President Donald Trump holds up a newspaper with the headline that reads "ACQUITTED" at the 68th annual National Prayer Breakfast, at the Washington Hilton, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Trump's acquittal invalid: psychiatrists

Igor Derysh

"The Senate must throw out any trial results" until Trump undergoes "involuntary assessment" for mental fitness

White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner listens as President Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni participate in a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Thursday, April 20, 2017. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Kushner redactions: What's being hidden?

Igor Derysh

A memo tied to Bannon revealed the claim that Kushner “attempted to back channel for communications with Russia"

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., tears her copy of President Donald Trump's s State of the Union address after he delivered it to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020. Vice President Mike Pence is at left. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Mainstream media whiffs on SOTU

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch

NYT engages in brain-dead stenography on State of the Union, and CBS News' Norah O'Donnell gives a glowing review

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U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) takes questions during a town hall meeting at the LeFrak City Queens Library on October 3, 2019 in the Queens borough of New York City. The event focused on her A Just Society legislation, which targets poverty, affordable housing, and access to federal benefits. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

"This is a moral wrong"

Julia Conley - Common Dreams

"We cannot go another year with kids not getting food that they need," said Ocasio-Cortez

Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

Impeachment, the Constitution and him

Chauncey DeVega

Trump got away with it, mostly. But Howell believes trying to hamstring the presidency would be a big mistake

Donald Trump and Richard Nixon (AP Photo/Alex Brandon/Getty Image/Ketstone)

Trump reportedly has an "enemies list"

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams

"Republicans briefed on Trump's thinking believe that the president is out for revenge against his adversaries."

US Army soldiers investigate the site of an explosion, January 18, 2004 in Baghdad, Iraq (Getty/Mario Tama)

The Iraq War: 16 years and $2 trillion

Neta C. Crawford - The Conversation

As the US sends more troops to Iraq this year, the cost of the 16-year war balloons to almost $2 trillion

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Trump's SOTU: more oil, more trees

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist

Trump devoted a few seconds of his State of the Union address to energy and environmental issues

Iowa Caucus (Getty Images/Salon)

Paper trail shows a poorly run election

Herbert Lin - The Conversation

Many electronic voting machines leave no records — problems with a paperless election would be impossible to fix

A large fracking operation becomes a new part of the horizon with Mount Meeker and Longs Peak looming in the background. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Even Pennsylvania doesn't love fracking

Nicole Karlis

A new poll finds Pennsylvania voters think the environmental risks of drilling outweigh the economic benefits

Lisa Simpson and Mike Pompeo (Twentieth Century Fox/AP Photo/Salon)

"Simpsons" writer protests Pompeo tweet

Matthew Rozsa

This isn't the first time that the "Simpsons" creative team has spoken against Republicans referencing the comedy

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