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PORTLAND, OREGON, USA - AUGUST 29: A BLM protester block Pickup trucks and cars full of flag-waving Donald Trump supporters as they snarl traffic and parade through downtown Portland, Oregon on August 29, 2020. (Photo by John Rudoff/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) (John Rudoff/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

One man killed at Portland Trump caravan

Keith A. Spencer

One county official lamented the "self-perpetuating cycle of violence" stoked by the president

Love Fraud (Courtesy of SHOWTIME)

The allure of scam series "Love Fraud"

Melanie McFarland

The 4-part true crime documentary uses eye-popping mixed media to represent the seductive powers of such con men

Election office puts mail in ballots into a container (George Frey/Getty Images)

Voting by mail is not always secret

Susan Orr, James Johnson - The Conversation

Not everyone who votes at home gets to do so in complete privacy

Protesters march near the Minneapolis 1st Police precinct during a demonstration against police brutality and racism on August 24, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. - It was the second day of demonstrations in Kenosha after video circulated Sunday showing the shooting of Jacob Blake -- multiple times, in the back, as he tried to get in his car, with his three children watching. (KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images)

Jacob Blake's father: son is paralyzed

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams

Marches and demonstrations have been held nationwide demanding justice for the 29-year-old father of six

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Robert Trump records destroyed: FBI

Alex Henderson - Alternet

The president's younger brother passed away August 15 in New York City

Fresh organic Brussels sprouts in a wooden tray (Getty Images)

USDA wants to prevent organic fraud

Lisa Held - Civil Eats

Advocates and farmers say the USDA should do more to support organic

Donald Trump; Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (Getty/Salon)

"His politics are appalling"

Tom Boggioni - Raw Story

His family has not only criticized him but publically accused him of racism

Small girl measuring heart beats to her sick grandfather with a toy stethoscope. (Getty Images)

Don't fear (discussing) the reaper

Mary Elizabeth Williams

I spent my summer managing two elderly parents. Here's what I wish I'd known

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A person holds a banner referring to the Qanon conspiracy theory during a alt-right rally on August 17, 2019 in Portland, Oregon (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

What's the real purpose of QAnon?

Robert Guffey

QAnon's deranged theories are drawn from numerous sources — and contain tidbits of truth. But what's the point?

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo gives his a press briefing about the coronavirus crisis on April 17, 2020 in Albany, New York | Photo of writer as a child with her father (Photo illustration by Salon/family photo courtesy of author/Getty Images)

Watching Cuomo, grieving my father

Gina Gionfriddo

I took comfort in watching Andrew Cuomo because he reminded me so much of the father who never offered me comfort

Illustration of the Earth, Moon and Sun showing a passing comet (Getty Images)

How bacteria survives in a vacuum

Matthew Rozsa

The discovery prompts new speculation as to whether microbial could spread between planets

President Donald Trump | Medical workers take in patients outside a special coronavirus area at Maimonides Medical Center as the U.S. surpasses 100,000 fatalities from COVID-19 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/AP Photo)

The consequences of Trump's presidency

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org

It’s one thing to understand climate change in the abstract. It’s another to live inside it.

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RNC Day 4: A light on Trump claims

Kaiser Health News Staff, PolitiFact Staff - KFF Health News

Here are the highlights related to the administration's COVID-19 response and other health policy issues

Staff of St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, test patients at a new COVID-19 testing clinic at East Sydney Community and Arts Centre, April 17, 2020. (Louise Kennerley/The Sydney Morning Herald via Getty Images)

Are you an expendable worker?

Bob Hennelly

The lack of unions is bringing everyone down — and in the age of COVID, that's bad for all of us

US President Donald Trump and Supreme Court Justice John Roberts (Getty Images/Salon)

Don't count on the Supreme Court

Bill Blum - Independent Media Institute

When it comes to ending the scourge of Trump at the ballot box, John Roberts is not your savior

U.S. President Donald Trump (C) reacts as he stands with his family members after delivering his acceptance speech for the Republican presidential nomination on the South Lawn of the White House August 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump gave the speech in front of 1500 invited guests. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump's pathology of victimhood

Alan D. Blotcky

As a clinical psychologist, what I see in Donald Trump is a classic and destructive pattern of malignant narcissism

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President Donald Trump participates in a Fox News Town Hall event on March 05, 2020 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Among other topics, President Trump discussed his administration's response to the Coronavirus and the economy. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Trump's college admission: SAT fraud

Travis Gettys - Raw Story

"He went to Fordham [...] and then he got into University of Pennsylvania because he had somebody take the exams."

U.S. President Donald Trump | Judge Robert Rosenberg of the Broward County Canvassing Board uses a magnifying glass to examine a dimpled chad on a punch card ballot November 24, 2000 during a vote recount in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (Getty Images/Salon)

Why 2020 could be crazier than Bush-Gore

Alex Henderson - Alternet

"Twenty years ago this fall, the United States was plunged into 36 days of turmoil"

Man staring at computer screen (Getty Stock)

Darknet sites dole out PPE and fraud

David Maimon - The Conversation

Research finds that PPE, medicines, and counterfeit products thrive on darknet websites during the pandemic

President Donald Trump speaks at the Republican National Committee winter meeting at the Trump International Hotel on February 1, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images)

RNC Day 3: Revisionist history

Kaiser Health News Staff, PolitiFact Staff - KFF Health News

Pence’s claims about the Trump administration were sometimes misleading, incomplete or wrong

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Empty prison hallway (Getty Images)

COVID-19's threat to aging prisoners

Todd Oppenheim

Some incarcerated people at risk for COVID-19 get released. But that won't fix the broken system that fails many

A smart phone with a camera mounted on a tripod, with a medical face mask hanging off of it. (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster)

Sex work without contact in the pandemic

Hunter R., Andrea Quijada

Making adult content online "is not easy money," says Hunter, 30, whose dancing job is on hold during the pandemic

David pouring Curaçao, from Drinking French (Penguin Random House)

These cocktails will fly you to France

Joseph Neese

"People still wanted to travel, and they wanted to feel like they were somewhere else"

First Lady Melania Trump speaks during the Republican National Convention filmed in the Rose Garden at the White House on Tuesday, Aug 25, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump's RNC Message: Everything is great

Terry H. Schwadron - DCReport

"Well, except for that COVID-19 pandemic thing, but you can’t blame us for that"

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