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Big Pharma is broken

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Charlotte Kilpatrick

Though they were warned, pharmaceutical companies refused to invest in coronavirus research until it was too late

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Trump's elaborate Diet Coke service

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Brad Reed - Raw Story

During his presidency, Trump was known to drink many Diet Cokes a day

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We escaped the "Mussolini moment." Maybe

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Elayne Clift

Trump's heinous regime was enabled by a large cast of villains. We have to recognize that all of us enabled them

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Power outages across the Plains

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Michael E. Webber - The Conversation

The Plains states have a lot of wild weather. Why is this cold wave such a problem for utilities?

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Rush Limbaugh’s legacy: Toxic patriotism

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Sophia A. McClennen

Rush Limbaugh might be dead, but his brand of toxic patriotism lives on

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QAnon preps for March 4 Trump comeback

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Igor Derysh

Trump’s D.C. hotel hopes to cash in on QAnon true believers who may descend on Washington for his big comeback

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W.Va. voters blast Manchin on $15 wage

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Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams

"When will you give us a living wage?" one activist demands of West Virginia's so-called Democrat

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Cruz named to aviation subcommittee

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Bob Brigham - Raw Story

On the day after Sen. Ted Cruz returned from Cancún, he was named top Republican on Senate aviation subcommittee

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Manchin to vote against Biden pick

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Sophia Tesfaye

The West Virginia Democrat also previouslyly voted to confirm Jeff Sessions and Ric Grenell

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Good grief, laugh tracks can be so wrong

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Melanie McFarland

A dive into how comedies are changing the way their characters deal with loss, and where the humor can be mined

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Why we shouldn't reopen dining just yet

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Caroline Chen - ProPublica

Experts say we could speed viruses’ spread by providing them with superspreading playgrounds

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Deregulation doomed the Texas power grid

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Roger Sollenberger

"There are things we could have done to prevent this," says former Democratic lieutenant governor. "But we didn't"

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Meghan McCain addresses cruz's fallout

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Kaity Assaf

McCain briefly acknowledged senator Ted Cruz's mishap before quickly shifting her focus to Democrat scandals 

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Scientists can now enter your dreams

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Matthew Rozsa

Researchers were able to communicate with people dreaming in certain circumstances and even ask them math questions

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2.5 million women out of work

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Nicole Karlis

One in 16 women over the age of 20 were unemployed in January 2021

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"I Care a Lot" is a darkly amoral joy

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Gary M. Kramer

Pike plays a court-appointed legal guardian who swindles her elderly wards, until Dianne Wiest fights back

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Florida Gov. honors Rush Limbaugh

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Jon Skolnik

Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered state entities to honor the late right-wing talk radio host when he is buried

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Death of the public political apology

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Edwin Battistella - The Conversation

Is "expressing regrets" the equivalent of sticking air quotes around apologies?

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Even the weather is polarized now

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Shannon Osaka - Grist

Every storm, fire, or heat wave has become a political sparring match

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35 Capitol officers under investigation

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Igor Derysh

"I think they were complicit,” says retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, who is reviewing Capitol security failures

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Texas is a failure of GOP ideas

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Amanda Marcotte

Republicans have mastered the art of breaking government and telling voters it's because government can't work

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O'Rourke and AOC provided aid to Texans

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Jon Skolnik

Beto O’Rourke and AOC were providing aid to abandoned Texans as Ted Cruz scrambled back from his Cancun vacation

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Italian wedding soup, meet slow cooker!

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Manuela Lopez Restrepo

Italian wedding soup, meet an awesome gift for new couples: the slow cooker!

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Newt to Trump: Limbaugh's legacy lives

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Heather Digby Parton

The right-wing cult Rush Limbaugh created was appropriated by Donald Trump — and lives on

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