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A man has a Jesus Christ pin affixed to a Trump 2020 hat during a Make American Great Again rally. (Preston Ehrler/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

One MAGA juror can ruin it all

Heather Digby Parton

What happens if any of these trials end up with one or more of these die-hard Trump followers on the jury?

Handguns that were swapped for gift cards during a Los Angeles Police Department sponsored gun buyback event in Los Angeles, California on December 13, 2014. (MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images)

Gun violence is a public health crisis

Dan Falk - Undark

“Public health is about prevention,” says David Hemenway, an advocate for taking on gun violence with public health

An abortion rights activist holds a sign at a protest in support of abortion access, March To Roe The Vote And Send A Message To Florida Politicians That Abortion Access Must Be Protected And Defended, on July 13, 2022 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (John Parra/Getty Images for MoveOn)

Florida abortion clinic hosts fundraiser

Julia Conley - Common Dreams

Florida Republicans haven't been able to totally ban abortion yet, so they're working to bankrupt clinics instead

Businessman and election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell talks with reporters outside the club house at the Trump National Golf Club hours ahead of a speech by former U.S. President Donald Trump on June 13, 2023 in Bedminster, New Jersey. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Loyalty for nothing: Lindell left out

Amanda Marcotte

The MyPillow Guy loudly tagged along, but apparently not even the coup conspirators took him seriously

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Former President Donald Trump arrives at a campaign event on July 1, 2023 in Pickens, South Carolina. The former president faces a growing list of Republican primary challengers. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

Trump rolls out his last line of defense

Chauncey DeVega

"An increased use of these kinds of fascist appeals shows how weak he is as a candidate and how scared he is"

A sign for the Food And Drug Administration is seen outside of the headquarters on July 20, 2020 in White Oak, Maryland. (Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)

Is the FDA failing to protect us?

Mary Elizabeth Williams

A slew of public health alarms raise concerns about what's going on at the Food and Drug Administration

Nicole Ari Parker in "And Just Like That" (Craig Blankenhorn/Max)

"And Just Like That" can't say abortion

Melanie McFarland

Another lost opportunity to develop an underused character comes and goes as quickly as a pregnancy scare

Mutating virus variant (Getty Images/wildpixel)

Highly-mutated Covid strain identified

Elizabeth Hlavinka

Most people shouldn't be concerned about this highly mutated variant, but experts caution it has outbreak potential

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Women looking at the menu in restaurant (Getty Images/Emmanuel Faure)

Is menu anxiety real?

Maggie Hennessy

Is menu anxiety real? Or had my generalized anxiety spilled into areas of my life without noticing?

Woman leaning on umbrella standing on large driftwood tree trunk on beach (Getty Images/Pete Saloutos)

How to navigate loss in an era of excess

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Gina Moffa, author of "Moving On Doesn't Mean Letting Go," on why grief takes endurance

Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying the Luna-25 lunar station blasting off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Amur Oblast of Russia's Far East on Aug. 11, 2023. (Xinhua via Getty Images)

Russia's lunar mission ends in failure

Kelly McClure

Since crashing, Russia’s space agency has not been able to establish contact with Luna 25

Pink Mole (Photo by Alice Gao)

It's never been easier to make mole

Michael La Corte

Chef Fer's simple, direct recipe is the perfect walk-through for the best mole you've ever made at home

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Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP in crisis: Men, guns and madness

Kirk Swearingen

Republican men seem massively troubled about their masculinity — and that's literally causing death and suffering

Former President Donald Trump speaks as White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows (R) on the South Lawn of the White House July 29, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Meadows confutes Trump's "declassifying"

Kelly McClure

Former WH chief of staff tells Smith's investigators that he can't recall Trump ordering docs to be declassified

Ellie Bamber as Princess Bea and Nicholas Galitzine as Prince Henry in "Red, White & Royal Blue" (Amazon Studios)

Hidden history of queer British royals

Nardos Haile

Prime Video's "Red, White & Royal Blue" inspired a little digging to see if any other UK royals have been out

This artist's concept shows what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about the planets' diameters, masses and distances from the host star, as of February 2018. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

An astrophysicist on alien life

Elizabeth Hlavinka

In her memoir "Life on Other Planets" Shields talks pursuing her dreams and why we may not be alone in the universe

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1998 Sandra Bullock and Nichole Kidman stars in the new movie "Practical Magic." (Getty Images/Warner Bros./Hulton Archive)

Alice Hoffman is always seeking magic

Alison Stine

The author on her time travel novel "The Invisible Hour," thoughts on Nathaniel Hawthorne and "Practical Magic"

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Big Pharma’s playbook for expensive meds

Elisabeth Rosenthal - KFF Health News

Here are just a few of the many examples of drug pricing practices that have driven consumers to demand change

U.S. President Donald Trump gestures to supporters following a campaign rally on October 28, 2020 in Bullhead City, Arizona. (Isaac Brekken/Getty Images)

After all this, who still likes Trump?

Jonathan Schulman, Matthew A. Baum - The Conversation

Trump dominates DeSantis among all Republicans — especially younger, more rural and more conservative GOP voters

The Manhattan Municipal Building, at 1 Centre Street in New York City, is a 40-story building built to accommodate increased governmental space demands after the 1898 consolidation of the city's five boroughs. (RobinsonBecquart/Getty Images)

NYC councilwoman kissed by weirdo

Kelly McClure

During an outdoor interview in Brooklyn, Inna Vernikov received an unwelcome surprise from a stranger walking by

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Tropic Thunder movie poster at the Los Angeles premiere at Mann's Village Theater on August 11, 2008 in Los Angeles, CA. (DAVID CROTTY/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

The mixed legacy of "Tropic Thunder"

Melanie McFarland

Robert Downey Jr.'s outrageous performance keeps it in the discourse, and asks us to think about why we're laughing

Swiss truffles (Mary Elizabeth Williams)

Chocolate truffles with zero fuss

Mary Elizabeth Williams

These luxurious 3-ingredient truffles taste like a trip to Switzerland

Ultrasound pregnancy examination of a young woman in a Medical Clinic during COVID-19 outbreak (Getty Images)

Death from pregnancy doubled in U.S.

Laura Fleszar, Allison Bryant Mantha, Catherine O. Johnson, Greg Roth - The Conversation

Because most maternal deaths are preventable, interventions have the potential to make a significant difference

(L to R) John Rothman as Mortimer Sackler, Matthew Broderick as Richard Sackler, Sam Anderson as Raymond Sackler in Netflix's "Painkiller" (Keri Anderson/Netflix)

"Greedy evil" birthed the opioid crisis

D. Watkins

Director Pete Berg on the addiction and devastation that drug companies cause: "The death and the pain are real"

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