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Painter Bob Ross in "Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed" (Netflix)

35 happy little facts about Bob Ross

Alvin Ward - Mental Floss

Bob Ross' signature curly 'do? A perm he absolutely hated but stuck with because of branding

Pro-choice protesters march outside the Texas State Capitol on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021 in Austin, TX. (Sergio Flores For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Pregnancy more dangerous than abortion

Amanda Stevenson

More pregnant people are apt to die — simply because staying pregnant is riskier than having an abortion

Food stylist: Anna Billingskog. Prop stylist: Andrea Foti. (James Ransom / Food52)

Patty melt: A hamburger or a sandwich?

Jason Diamond - Food52

The humble beef sandwich is an underrated diner staple

Woman enjoying music in the morning (Getty Images)

How Spotify may correlate with markets

Ivan Indriawan, Adrian Fernandez-Perez, Alexandre Garel, Alex Edmans - The Conversation

A new study reveals how much stock markets are governed by emotion rather than rational calculation

Former US President George W. Bush speaks during a 9/11 commemoration at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 11, 2021. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Bush blasts domestic terrorism on 9/11

Brett Bachman

"They are children of the same foul spirit and it is our continuing duty to confront them"

Smoke Pours From The World Trade Center After Being Hit By Two Planes September 11, 2001 In New York City. (Craig Allen/Getty Images)

Who got canceled after 9/11, and why

Andrew O'Hehir

A moment of national mourning gave way to the "too soon" thought police, and it's been downhill ever since

Airport security screening tray (Getty Images/trekandshoot)

The evolution of air travel after 9/11

Janet Bednarek - The Conversation

Since 9/11, billions have been spent beefing up airport security. Was it worth it?

Bill Maher, host of HBO's "Real Time" (HBO)

Maher: "The left" is embarrassing me

Bob Brigham - Raw Story

"Boy, you know, you go after the left a lot these days. Why? Because you're embarrassing me"

A bustling hallway in the emergency department at Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital due to coronavirus (COVID-19) patients in Oceanside, New York (Jeffrey Basinger/Newsday via Getty Images)

Care rationing no longer a hypothetical

Paula Schaap

A surge in cases colliding with scarce medical resources has spurred heated debate over how to ration health care

"Real Time With Bill Maher" and "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Chris Polk/FilmMagic/Scott Gries)

How 9/11 sharpened late-night TV

Melanie McFarland

"Subliminable" stopped being a punchline, but the post-9/11 era necessitated talk show hosts to hone their barbs

Standing atop rubble with retired New York City firefighter Bob Beckwith, President George W Bush rallies firefighters and rescue workers during an impromptu speech at the site of the collapsed World Trade Center in New York City, New York, September 14, 2001. Image courtesy National Archives. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

9/11 and the birth of the Big Lie

Lucian K. Truscott IV

Those attacks, and how we reacted to them, tore us apart as a nation — by destroying our shared sense of reality

A healthcare worker wearing a personal protective equipment (PPE) attends to Covid-19 patient wearing oxygen mask inside a Covid-19 care center set up at shehnai banquet hall attached with Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital (LNJP) one of the largest COVID-19 facilities. (Naveen Sharma/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

India struggles to count its dead

Disha Shetty - Undark

The pandemic highlights a longstanding issue: The world’s second-most populous country lacks good death records

Security camera in the city (Getty Images/Zhengshun Tang)

9/11: The birth of consumer surveillance

Mary Elizabeth Williams

It wasn't patriotism, it was consumerism that seduced us

A passing helicopter creates a cross through the beams of the Tribute in Light as it is tested over lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center in New York City. (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

Tim Golden

In a frame from video obtained by The New York Times, a man closes a gate after pulling his car into a courtyard. (Screenshot via New York Times)

The U.S. military's drone strike coverup

Sky Palma - Raw Story

The man was loading canisters of water into a car trunk, which the military may have mistaken for explosives

Jenn Colella, Emily Walton, Q. Smith and Joel Hatch in “Come From Away" (Apple TV+)

Broadway's 9/11 musical lands on our TV

Caroline Cao

Now streaming, the play reveals how a tiny town in Newfoundland welcomed passengers from 38 diverted planes

The Silent Land (Photo courtesy of Toronto International Film Festival)

The haunting dread of "Silent Land"

Gary M. Kramer

Agnieszka Woszczynska's film is both ambiguous and unflinching in portraying a relationship that's avoiding truth

U.S. President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani waits to testify before the Michigan House Oversight Committee on December 2, 2020 in Lansing, Michigan. (Rey Del Rio/Getty Images)

Giuliani associate pleads guilty

Brett Bachman

Fruman was also charged for an illegal donation of more than $325,000 to Trump's 2020 re-election campaign

DeAnne and Mark Stidham in "LulaRich" (Amazon Studios)

The ultimate suburban "pyramid scheme"

Kylie Cheung

Amazon's "LuLaRich” explores how LuLaRoe used women’s empowerment language as a honey trap to ensnare women

California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Is GOP blowing its CA recall chances?

Alex Henderson - Alternet

One conservative pundit described him as "basically a walking Boomer Facebook meme"

Comedian Maz Jobrani performs at "Loose Change" on October 29, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. | Writer/director Negin Farsad speaks onstage at the "3rd Street Blackout" screening during the 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival on June 13, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. | Comedian Dean Obeidallah is seen performing in the liberal comedy show on Broadway called "Laughing Liberally: This Ain't No Tea Party," on April 11, 2011 in Manhattan, NY. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Alberto E. Rodriguez/Jennifer S. Altman)

How 9/11 affected stand-up comedy

Dean Obeidallah

Negin Farsad, Maz Jobrani and Dean Obeidallah appeared on "Salon Talks" to discuss how stand-up evolved since 9/11

A candlelight vigil drawing over 1,000 people in the days after the devastating 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York City's World Trade Center & the Pentagon. (Steve Liss/Getty Images)

Why 9/11 united and COVID-19 divided

Nicole Karlis

America missed its pandemic kumbaya moment. Disaster resilience researchers think they know why

Participants representing victims of gun violence attend a vigil to mark the 5th anniversary of the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, at Rutgers Presbyterian Church, December 14, 2017 in New York City. 20 children and six adults were killed in the shooting. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Remington subpoenas Sandy Hook families

Igor Derysh

“There is no conceivable way that these [records] will assist Remington in its defense," families' attorney says

Donald Trump and Mike Lindell (Photo illustration by Salon/Jabin Botsford/Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Trump, Lindell held secret meeting

Zachary Petrizzo

MyPillow guy apparently dined with Trump - on the very day he'd previously predicted Trump would be "reinstated"

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