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Britney Spears onstage performing at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards held at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in New York City on September 6, 2001. (Scott Gries/ImageDirect/Getty Images)

Britney's saga can happen to anyone

Christopher Magoon - KFF Health News

Britney Spears can, fortunately, afford a large bill for psychiatric care. Not everyone can

A hand holding several $100 bills. (Getty Images)

"This is the Panama papers on steroids"

Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams

It's the "biggest-ever leak of offshore data" — more than 12 million files

Rear view of large group of students attending a class (Getty Images)

Afraid to teach students to think

Christina Wyman

A climate of disinformation in students' home lives is making it harder to teach critical thinking

(Ren Fuller / Food52)

Make bakery-worthy pie crust designs

Erin Jeanne McDowell - Food52

Beautiful pie, right this way!

Haitian immigrants prepare to cross the Rio Grande into Del Rio, Texas, on Sept. 23, 2021, from Ciudad Acuna, Mexico. (John Moore/Getty Images)

"Christians" vs. Haitian refugees

Nathaniel Manderson

American Christians have so much to learn from the Haitian people — but we remain indifferent, cold and lost

SNL cast member Aidy Bryant plays an unhinged parent at a school board meeting. (NBC)

SNL takes on school board culture wars

Tom Boggioni - Raw Story

"Forget Covid, the real threat is critical race theory. My question is: What is it? And why am I mad about it?"

Donald Trump and Melania Trump step out of Marine One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on January 20, 2021. (ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

5 things we learned from new Trump book

Meaghan Ellis - Alternet

Yes, there is a story behind that infamous jacket

Billy Eichner as Matt Drudge in "Impeachment: American Crime Story" (Tina Thorpe/FX)

"Impeachment" needs more Matt Drudge

Kylie Cheung

Eichner is a delight, and Drudge all but pioneered digital media — what could be more interesting to watch?

"Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion" by Wendy Suzuki (Photo illustration by Salon/Matt Simpkins/Atria Books)

Can you teach your brain to worry well?

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Dr. Wendy Suzuki on the power of "Good Anxiety"

Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The reason Trumpworld dumped Lewandowski

Meaghan Ellis - Alternet

Trumpworld has one rule, it appears: Don't mess with the money

Coronavirus and the Brain (Getty Images/Amornrat Phuchom)

Even mild COVID cases can affect brain

Jessica Bernard - The Conversation

A cognitive neuroscientist explains the impact of mild COVID-19 cases on the brain's gray matter

Singer R. Kelly performs in concert during the '12 Nights Of Christmas' tour at Kings Theatre on December 17, 2016 in Brooklyn (Noam Galai/Getty Images)

What will happen to R. Kelly’s music?

Kylie Cheung

A look at the fate of artists accused of abuse, and the decisions brands make in their wake

Joe Biden, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Is Biden doomed? Consider Bill Clinton

Matthew Rozsa

Biden will certainly be damaged if he can't pass his big spending bill, but don't write his political epitaph

Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

$3.5T budget bill is really popular

Common Dreams staff - Common Dreams

Don't listen to Meghan McCain — polls show sweeping investments in a number of areas are wildly popular

Police use tear gas around the U.S. Capitol building where pro-Trump supporters riot on Jan. 6, 2021. (Getty Images)

Jan. 6 rioters were armed after all

Meaghan Ellis - Alternet

The rioters reportedly brought "rifles, pistols, explosive materials, and large supplies of ammunition"

(Getty/filadendron)

Healthy people shouldn't skip vaccine

Richard Bloomer - The Conversation

Maintaining a healthy diet and exercising regularly are not sufficient safeguards for COVID-19

Matthew Rozsa, circa 2000 (Photo courtesy of author)

How the 2000 election changed my life

Matthew Rozsa

That year altered my worldview as an autistic teenager obsessed with the Bush-Gore race and its results

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Cruz "undermines" U.S. national security

Tom Boggioni - Raw Story

Cruz is holding dozens of diplomatic appointments hostage as part of an ongoing beef with President Joe Biden

Broccoli Pasta (Getty Images/Ekaterina Fedotova/EyeEm)

Bored with beige pasta? Grab a blender

Ashlie D. Stevens

This "clean out the crisper drawer" pasta is high on flavor — and it cuts down on food waste, too

(Food52)

How to make extra-fluffy dinner rolls

Erin Jeanne McDowell - Food52

Erin Jeanne McDowell's got the scoop for your Parker House, pull-apart and every roll in between

Sidney Powell, attorney for President Donald Trump, at a news conference at the Republican National Committee on lawsuits regarding the outcome of the 2020 presidential election on Thursday, November 19, 2020. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Bob Brigham

Squid Game (YOUNGKYU PARK / Netflix)

The allure of Netflix's grim Squid Game

Melanie McFarland

In a world where the divide between haves and have nots is widening, this violent K-drama is speaking to millions

American astronaut Joseph Tanner waves to the camera during a space walk as part of the STS-115 mission to the International Space Station, September 2006 (NASA/Getty Images)

Poo politics on space station movie set?

Alice Gorman - The Conversation

The upcoming Russian movie "Challenge" will be the first professional space movie to be filmed in space

Attorney for the President, Rudy Giuliani speaks to the media at a press conference held in the back parking lot of Four Seasons Total Landscaping on November 7, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The press conference took place just minutes after news networks announced that Joe Biden had won the presidency over Donald Trump after it was projected that he had won the state of Pennsylvania. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Giuliani admits fraud claims were bunk

Brett Bachman

Giuliani also admitted he never fact checked any of the claims — that would have made him a "terrible lawyer"

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