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An unidentified Army defender pulls down Navy quarterback Craig Candeto (11)  in the third quarter the 104th Army-Navy football game, Dec. 6, 2003. (AP/Rusty Kennedy)

Diagnosing concussions with blood test

Sarah LaFramboise - Massive Science

Measuring levels of two key proteins could be the answer to this tricky problem

(Courtesy Meghan McGarry/Buttercream Blondie)

Bake this loaf with ingredients on hand

Joseph Neese

This loaf is super adaptable, not only in terms of ingredients. It’s a crowd pleaser that's great any time of day

Minestrone Soup (Skyhorse Publishing)

Try these 6 easy-to-make soup recipes

Joseph Neese

If you're cooking at home this weekend, try making one of these 6 soup recipes from Salon Food

(AP/Mark Lennihan)

"I couldn’t believe it”

Alex Henderson - Alternet

That is something that I have not experienced in a very, very long time in this country”

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"Contagion" movie poster (Warner Bros.)

Why we're watching "Contagion" & zombies

Ashlie D. Stevens

It's a stressful time for everyone in the nation, so why is the popularity of epidemic and disaster stories surging

FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2014, file photo, inmates wait to enter their assigned cell block after arriving at the Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy, Calif. Corrections officials are proposing new sentencing rules that aim to trim California's prison population by nearly 2,000 inmates in the first year and by 9,500 inmates after four years. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) (AP)

Social distancing impossible in prisons

Victoria Law - Truthout

So far, no state governor has responded to the call for releasing the most vulnerable people from prison.

Pro-choice and pro-life activists demonstrate in front of the the US Supreme Court during the 47th annual March for Life on January 24, 2020 in Washington, DC. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

Will Supreme Court rule against science?

Sarah CM Roberts

An upcoming ruling could give state lawmakers a green light to ignore science for the sake of ideology

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. right, listens to Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, left, speak about the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the U.S., during their joint news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015.   Abbott was in Washington with Cruz to support a bill Cruz has introduced in Congress banning any refugees from Iraq, Syria or other countries deemed to be controlled by a foreign terrorist organization.  (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

"Unsupported and ignored"

Jay Root, SHANNON NAJMABADI - The Texas Tribune

Texans marooned there after the country closed its borders described a harrowing ordeal trying to find a plane

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A worker removes the flowers from a wreath in Athens, Friday, July 17, 2015. Funeral homes here are struggling to cope with banking restrictions _ with a modest funeral costing more the 15 times the daily ATM withdrawal limit _ in a country that traditionally carries out funerals shortly after death and almost everything is paid for in cash. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias) (AP)

Pondering death in the age of COVID-19

JoNel Aleccia - KFF Health News

Funeral homes are implementing even stricter protocols to handle bodies infected with the novel coronavirus.

(Getty/Nova SAFO)

How big corporations are poisoning farms

Sarah Okeson - DCReport

It’s about ignoring nature and lobbying in the Trump administration

Tabulators work on recounting presidential ballots in Madison, Wisconsin. (Getty/Andy Manis)

Voting by mail isn’t a silver bullet

Steven Rosenfeld - Independent Media Institute

Many legal, technical, logistical and political obstacles stand between now and November’s election

Tattered American flag flapping in ominous sky (Getty Images)

Epidemic reveals America's weakness

David Masciotra

Despite America's national mythology, this crisis has revealed a weak, divided and totally unprepared nation

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AP File Photo: Kenny Rogers Has Passed Away at 81. AUGUST 14: Kenny Rogers performs at Chastain Park Amphitheatre in Atlanta, Georgia on August 14, 2002. (AP/ Chris McKay / MediaPunch /IPX)

Kenny Rogers dead at 81

Stephen L. Betts - Rolling Stone

Rogers was one of music’s true crossover artists, scoring hits in both country and pop

Three-Toed Tree Sloth Hanging on a Tree Trunk (Getty Images/Buddy Mays)

Do you think you can do nothing?

Mary Elizabeth Williams

"Do Nothing" author Celeste Headlee appeared on "Salon Talks" to discuss our monkey brains and how to detach/detox

TWICKENHAM - DECEMBER 1965: (L-R) English musician, singer, songwriter and guitarist George Harrison (1943-2001), English singer, songwriter and bassist Paul McCartney, English singer, songwriter and guitarist John Lennon (1940-1980), and English musician, singer and drummer Ringo Starr (below), at Twickenham Studios promoting the release of The Beatles' "Rubber Soul" during December 1965 in London, UK. (Jeff Hochberg/Getty Images)

The genius of the Beatles' "Rubber Soul"

Kenneth Womack

"Rubber Soul" marked a watershed moment — an unmistakable harbinger for innovative and even more provocative works

A worker gets ready to pass out instructions on how to fill out the 2020 census during a town hall meeting in Lithonia, Ga. (AP Photo/John Amis)

How the coronavirus may upend democracy

Igor Derysh

"The risk of being undercounted disproportionately falls on communities of color," a letter from Democrats read

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Robert Reich; Donald Trump (Getty/AP/Salon)

What’s missing from the coronavirus bill

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org

Trickle-down economics and trickle-down public health are deeply flawed. Corporate tax cuts won’t save us.

Grocery stores were packed with big crowds and long lines as latest spike of COVID-19 cases prompted panic buying across the country on March 12, 2020 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Americans have been hoarding products

FairWarning Staff - FairWarning

Americans have been told to stop hoarding and also told to limit public interaction, are these contradictory?

Donald Trump and Joe Biden (Getty Images/Salon)

Trump can f**k this up and still win

Lucian K. Truscott IV

His performance with his “task force” is an act. He isn’t presidential. He’s the same psychotic monster as always

Donald Trump; Xavier Becerra (AP/Evan Vucci/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

The high cost of being Trump's enemy

Rachel Bluth - KFF Health News

California's total tab for its feud with the Oval Office is at least in the hundreds of millions

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Person's hands holding prison bars (Getty Images)

COVID-19: What prosecutors need to do

Miriam Aroni Krinsky, Stephanie Morales, Karl Racine

Prosecutors have an obligation to act now to stop the spread of disease in jails and prisons across the country

Gavin Newsom, Donald Trump, and Andrew Cuomo (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

States step in to fill Trump vacuum

Sophia Tesfaye

Many mayors and governors have responded heroically, but the absence of national leadership is already deadly

Scientists doing research on desktop PC in a laboratory. (Getty Images)

The front lines of developing a test

David Pride - The Conversation

A virus testing lab director explains how the U.S. fell behind in the need for broad coronavirus testing

Transit Union Workers protest (Getty Images/Salon)

Trump accused of union-busting efforts

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams

Trump accused of exploiting coronavirus pandemic to advance "truly disgraceful" union-busting effort

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