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Tough Love Medicine (Salon/Ilana Lidagoster)

Tough love doesn't help addicts

Erin Khar

Too often, tough love doesn’t work — it just traps addicts in a cycle of deadly shame

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Hate cancel culture? Blame algorithms

Anjana Susarla - The Conversation

Thanks to algorithms, outrage often snowballs

(Getty Images)

Are you drinking contaminated water?

Mike Ludwig - Truthout

Harmful “forever chemicals” have contaminated far more drinking water sources than previously known

Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Joe Biden (Scott Olson/Justin Sullivan/Samuel Corum/Getty Images/Salon)

Zero hour in Iowa: It's finally time

Andrew O'Hehir

After a year of bitter Democratic infighting, Iowa gets its chance to shape the narrative. Hell yeah, it matters

(ZenShui/Laurence Mouton/Getty Images)

Does science support wilderness therapy?

Adiel Kaplan - Undark

The intervention for troubled teens has evolved, but researchers still differ on a key question: Why wilderness?

The logos for the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs /  A group of Native Americans perform a traditional dance in front of the White House while protesting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. (Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images/NFL/Salon)

Super Bowl LVIII team names: Both racist

Matthew Rozsa

Cheering at Super Bowl LVIII means picking one racist team name over another

( Nisian Hughes/Getty)

Could better FAA regs have saved Kobe?

Bob Hennelly

Due to an ongoing war on regulation, Kobe Bryant's helicopter lacked safety tech that the NTSB has long called for

"The Handmaid's Tale" (Hulu/George Kraychyk)

The Handmaid’s Tale & Descent of Man

Ian Hesketh - The Conversation

The role of women "The Handmaid’s Tale" makes references to Darwin’s writings on evolution

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks to guests during a campaign stop at the Val Air Ballroom on November 25, 2019 in West Des Moines, Iowa. The 2020 Iowa Democratic caucuses will take place on February 3, 2020, making it the first nominating contest for the Democratic Party in choosing their presidential candidate. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

The Republican argument for Liz Warren

Alex Henderson - Alternet

"She believes in a market economy," ex-FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair says. "She just wants it to work for everyone"

An illustration shows a man exhaling smoke from an electronic cigarette in Washington, DC on October 2, 2018. - In just three years, the electronic cigarette manufacturer Juul has swallowed the American market with its vaporettes in the shape of a USB key. Its success represents a public health dilemma for health authorities in the United States and elsewhere. (Photo by EVA HAMBACH / AFP)        (Photo credit should read EVA HAMBACH/AFP/Getty Images) (Eva Hambach/AFP/Getty Images)

The corporate art of deception

Keith A. Spencer

David Michaels, former Assistant Secretary of Labor, explains how corporations whitewash harmful products and drugs

Traffic on the northbound and the southbound lanes of the Interstate 405 freeway near Los Angeles International Aiprort (Getty/Kevork Djansezian)

How safe are our roads?

Amy Martyn - FairWarning

In 2018, 36,560 people died in traffic collisions in the U.S.

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Using anthrax to fight cancer?

R. Claudio Aguilar - The Conversation

Dogs with terminal bladder cancer improved with this new modified anthrax treatment.

Donald Trump and Joe Biden (AP Photo/Salon)

Trump and Biden: It's not over

Matthew Rozsa

Turn the page on impeachment — but Trump's attacks will keep coming. Do they reveal that he fears Biden most?

DALLAS, TEXAS - OCTOBER 17: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a "Keep America Great" Campaign Rally at American Airlines Center on October 17, 2019 in Dallas, Texas. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images) (om Pennington/Getty Images)

We know what Trump really thinks of us

Terry H. Schwadron - DCReport

As the impeachment trial draws to its predetermined close, it’s clear he’s played Americans as a bunch of chumps

John Kelly (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Kelly: No witnesses? Only "half a trial"

Sky Palma - Raw Story

“You open yourself up forever as a Senate that shirks its responsibilities"

(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Why the global tax system is broken

Ruth Mason - The Conversation

Don't worry, your plate of exotic French cheeses is safe from high tariffs for at least a little while longer

No One Suspects A Thing (Salon/Ilana Lidagoster)

"No one suspected me as a food critic"

Cara Strickland

Different menus for men. A server insisting "women don't eat that." Women restaurant writers open up

(Getty/RuslanDashinsky)

Preterm birth drug divides doctors

Emmarie Huetteman - KFF Health News

Doctors are torn between two clinical studies of the drug that had differing results.

Ragù alla Bolognese (Jennifer May)

How to make ragù alla bolognese

Lidia Bastianich

We like to serve this with dried rigatoni or fusilli, but it is delicious with fresh tagliatelle

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Warren's plan to cancel student debt

Alexis Goldstein - Truthout

Americans are asking themselves and candidates: how much student debt should we cancel, and how shall we cancel it?

BoJack Horseman (Netflix)

"BoJack" & what it means to be canceled

Melanie McFarland

For six seasons we connected with a damaged character who did awful things. In the end, he answers for one of them

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (AP/Mpi04/MediaPunch/IPX)

"Definition of a rigged system"

Eoin Higgins - Common Dreams

"DNC changing the rules to benefit a billionaire."

(Getty/Leon Neal)

The Twitter wrath of male reactionaries

Carolyn Kellogg

To journalists, I knew writing an obituary meant considering the full person, warts and all. Then came the threats

President Donald Trump at the White House, Oct. 24, 2019. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Will impeachment vote come before SOTU?

Brad Reed - Raw Story

“We sure would like Tuesday, but the Senate can only go as fast as it can"

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