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Hospitality workers wait in line in a basement garage to apply for unemployment benefits in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Unemployment system "designed to fail"

Igor Derysh

"Designed to fail": Many states designed their UI systems to limit payouts, experts say

A worker cleans a voting machine after it was used at McKinley Technology High School on primary election day on June 2, 2020 in Washington, DC. On Tuesday, nine states and the District of Columbia are holding primaries, most of which were previously delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

How to incentivize candidates to listen

David Daley, Rob Richie

When winning takes less votes, it requires less engagement with voters. That's a problem

Steve King (Getty/Alex Wong)

Top 5 moments: Steve King Hall of Shame

Alex Henderson - Alternet

On June 2, far-right Rep. Steve King lost a GOP primary battle to Iowa State Sen. Randy Feenstra

Police officers clash with protestors near the White House on June 1, 2020 as demonstrations against George Floyd's death continue. - Police fired tear gas outside the White House late Sunday as anti-racism protestors again took to the streets to voice fury at police brutality. (Getty Images)

It can’t happen here — and then it did

Joe Saltzman - The Conversation

There have already been at least 100 instances of journalists being assaulted or harassed while covering protests

David Swaray, also known as Davey Dave, joined hundreds of protestors joined at the Government Center to support CAIR-Minnesota to call for the arrest of the police who killed George Floyd. (Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via Getty Images)

The downfall of a president

Lucian K. Truscott IV

We've reached a turning point in the Trump era. The 2020 campaign is in the streets and he's losing

FILE - In this Saturday, May 31, 2014, file photo, members of the graduating class and faculty attend the Savannah College of Art and Design commencement in Atlanta. For the first time on record, living with parents is now the most common arrangement for Americans ages 18 to 34, an analysis of Census data by the Pew Research Center has found. The sharp shift reflects a long-running decline in marriage age, amplified by the economic upheavals of the Great Recession. The trend has been particularly evident among Americans who lack a college degree. (AP Photo/John Amis, File) (AP)

Graduation speech for an age of collapse

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com

You’re graduating not into a world but into a conundrum.

Protestors take part in a Black Lives Matter march (PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP via Getty Images)

This movement deserves better media

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch

Journalists have access to the powerful. They must take the protesters' message to those who can do something

George Soros (Getty/Sean Gallup)

GOP pushes new Soros conspiracy theory

Alex Samuels - The Texas Tribune

In racist Facebook posts, GOP officials accused George Soros of paying protesters to "destroy" the country

U.S. President Donald Trump makes a statement to the press in the Rose Garden about restoring "law and order" in the wake of protests at the White House (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump's eternal presidential campaign

Stephan Richter, Uwe Bott - The Globalist

How Trump has regulated the American public’s right to free speech: Every “Presidential” speech is a campaign event

US Senator Martha McSally (R) (R-AZ) speaks next to US President Donald Trump at a Keep America Great Rally in Phoenix, AZ, on February 19, 2020. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Fox poll spells doom for GOP in Arizona

Roger Sollenberger

The further into the poll you go, the worse it looks — for McSally, as well as for Trump and the Republican Party

Curbing congenital syphilis falter

Anna Maria Barry-Jester - KFF Health News

Rates of infection and death from congenital syphilis have been on the rise for years.

Company HE3DA President Jan Prochazka shows qualities of a new battery during the  official start of a battery production line in Prague, on Monday, Dec. 19, 2016. The new battery is based on nanotechnology and is supposed to be be more efficient, long-lasting, cheaper, lighter and above all safer. The battery is designed to store energy from renewable electric sources and cooperate with smart grids. Next planned type will be suitable for electric cars. (Michal Kamaryt /CTK via AP) (AP)

Electric utilities slow to make switch

Alexandra Tempus - FairWarning

Many electric utilities are continuing to plan for and invest billions in power generation from natural gas.

An activist shows sex workers how to apply hand sanitizer during an awareness campaign to promote safe measures against the spread of the new Coronavirus, COVID-19. (Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP via Getty Images)

The humanities could help solve COVID-19

Anna Magdalena Elsner, Vanessa Rampton - Undark

Scholars of society, language, and culture will be integral to addressing the broader issues raised by the pandemic

An elderly man is knocked to the ground by two police officers (Twitter/@WBFO)

Shover cops suspended, whole squad quits

Roger Sollenberger

The viral video shows two cops shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground. Blood could be seen coming out of his ear

Henry Rollins in "Dreamland" (Uncork'd Entertainment)

Henry Rollins slams pandemic masculinity

Andrew O'Hehir

The hardcore punk legend spoke to Salon about life under lockdown and his amoral role in the creepy "Dreamland"

Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg (Getty Images/Salon)

Silicon Valley CEOs go mask off

Nicole Karlis

Recent crises are exposing these powerful men for who they really are — and what they believe

Zoe Boekbinder and Ani DiFranco for The Prison Music Project (Krys Fox)

"American apartheid is coming to a head"

Mary Elizabeth Williams

DiFranco & Zoe Boekbinder spoke to Salon about collaborating with prisoners who tell their stories on a new album

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference about the U.S. Labor Department's announcement that the unemployment rate fell to 13.3 percent in May, in the Rose Garden at the White House June 05, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump's premature economic celebration

Matthew Rozsa

Economists say the slight drop in unemployment rate may be temporary and not indicative of deeper trends

Hannah Gadsby: Douglas (Netflix)

Hannah Gadsby, autism comedy pioneer

Mary Elizabeth Williams

The self-proclaimed Tasmanian lesbian comic is back to explain her full comedy set, sexism, and Louis C.K.

Susan Collins and Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

Susan Collins won't join Trump in Maine

Roger Sollenberger

Trump threatened to back any challenger with a "pulse" who takes on Murkowski after she publicly criticized him

U.S. President Donald Trump makes a statement to the press in the Rose Garden about restoring "law and order" in the wake of protests at the White House (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump: "It's a great day" for Floyd!

Igor Derysh

"Black unemployment went up," one reporter told Trump. "How is that a victory?"

Demonstrators march on Pennsylvania Avenue towards the Capitol to protest the death of George Floyd (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Protesters aren't pandemic hypocrites

Amanda Marcotte

Just because Trump claims the left wants "forever quarantine" doesn't make it true — and the protests prove it

Protestors in Minneapolis | Logos from The Jerusalem Post, The Japan Times, and The Guardian (Getty Images/ WikiMedia/ Salon)

How foreign papers are covering protests

Matthew Rozsa

A glimpse at international coverage hints at how America is being perceived abroad

A casino employee cleans areas of the casino floor during a media tour of Bellagio hotel and casino reopening in Las Vegas, Nevada (BRIDGET BENNETT/AFP via Getty Images)

Latinas hardest hit by COVID-19 slowdown

Alexia Fernández Campbell

The gap between the jobless rates of Latinas and white men was the largest: 8.3 percentage points

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