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Get a duffel bag + dopp kit for $70

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The Bomber Barrel Duffel Bag will become your go-to bag for air travel, overnights and daily use

"American Hemp" by Jen Hobbs (Simon & Schuster/Getty/johnwoodcock)

Hemp is our "Green New Deal"

Jen Hobbs

The 2018 Farm Bill partially legalized hemp. But whether this will trigger a hemp farming revolution remains hazy

In this Friday, April 22, 2016 photo, a jar containing a strain of marijuana nicknamed "Killer D" is seen at a medical marijuana facility in Unity, Maine. A growing number of health experts and law enforcement officials are making the case that marijuana could help reduce the numbers of overdoses and redirect money into fighting heroin and other opiates. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) (AP)

Decriminalizing the drug war?

Alfred McCoy

Calculating the damage from a century of drug prohibition

Blackberry farms (beall + thomas photography)

Road food: 5 Best in the Americas

Pavia Rosati, Jeralyn Gerba

Traveling in the Americas doesn't always mean great food, if these places are on your itinerary you are all set

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Whole-wheat pasta with fried Hazelnuts

Sarah Jampel - Food52

A crunchy, nutty, salty 30-minute dinner

Kellyanne Conway (AP/Susan Walsh)

Conway: Migrants should wait in Mexico

Matthew Rozsa

Kellyanne Conway says that she believes migrants should wait in Mexico while their asylum claims are processed

"Game of Thrones;" "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker;" "Avengers: Endgame" (HBO/Lucasfilm/Marvel)

Game of Thrones & pop culture apocalypse

Melanie McFarland

It's "Endgame" all around us, from "Game of Thrones" ending to Skywalker series concluding for "Star Wars"

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y.

Nadler bashes Trump on 9/11 tweet

Matthew Rozsa

Rep. Jerrold Nadler defended Rep. Ilhan Omar by saying that Donald Trump has no "moral authority" regarding 9/11

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Walmart to install robots for human task

Alistair Charlton - GearBrain

In a bid to reduce labor costs, the robots will take over employees' mundane and repetitive tasks

Expand your horizons with this app

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uTalk Language Education helps you learn two foreign languages from the comfort of your smartphone

This photo provided by the Defense Department's Missile Defense Agency, taken Jan. 28, 2016, shows a long-range ground-based interceptor is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. As North Korea rattles its nuclear saber and threatens to bomb the U.S. at “any moment,” a nerve-jangling question hangs in the air: If North Korea did launch a nuclear-armed missile at an American city, could the Pentagon’s missile defenses shoot it down beyond U.S. shores? (Defense Department's Missile Defense  Agency via AP) (AP)

The great missile defense con

Doug Vaughan - WhoWhatWhy

Progress is always elusive, but now coming at you even faster. And more expensive. Really, really

Mayor Pete Buttigieg (AP/Nam Y. Huh)

Buttigieg is running for president

Matthew Rozsa

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg declared his presidential candidacy official on Sunday

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Commuters wait on the platform as a train arrives in the 23rd Street subway station. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Inside NY's congestion pricing policy

Justine Calma - Grist

Most stakeholders agree the city can no longer afford to delay addressing its transportation woes

A photo of a different macaque monkey, taken by a human. (<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-295900p1.html'>Dudarev Mikhail</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Do animals hear music?

Jennifer Tsang - Massive Science

Macaques, chimps, and one very smart bird take Henkjan Honing down a winding path

(AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Voter roll purges

Cathleen Draper - WhoWhatWhy

aggressive purge practices and purges based on inaccurate information can lead to disenfranchisement of active and

Vladimir Putin; Julian Assange; Donald Trump (AP/Getty/Salon)

Assange and the future of democracy

Andrew O'Hehir

Assange's arrest was an authoritarian masterstroke, exposing intense confusion and hypocrisy on the anti-Trump left

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders (AP/Alex Brandon)

Sanders talks immigration, Ilhan Omar

Matthew Rozsa

Trump's press secretary said the president is spreading the "burden" of migrants to sanctuary cities

In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, sailors assigned to the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG 71) man the rails as the ship arrives at Naval Station Rota, Spain, on March 3, 2017.  (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ford Williams/U.S. Navy via AP) (AP)

How Navy's chief botched investigation

T. Christian Miller, Robert Faturechi - ProPublica

The Navy said it was abandoning all criminal charges against sailors involved in fatal accidents in the Pacific

Jeff Daniels takes a bow during curtain call after the opening night performance of 'To Kill A Mocking Bird' at the Shubert Theatre on December 13, 2018 in New York City. (Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for 'To Kill A Mockingbird')

Jeff Daniels on becoming Atticus Finch

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Salon talks to the stars of "To Kill a Mockingbird" about how Harper Lee's classic got the Sorkin treatment

Julian Assange (AP/Frank Augstein)

SNL has Keaton play Assange

Matthew Rozsa

"Saturday Night Live" depicted Julian Assange as an "actual James Bond supervillain" in sketch with Michael Keaton

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Pollen is getting worse, not better

Kara Wada - The Conversation

Pollen has taken the fun out of spring for many. However, medical science has identified practices that help

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Maria Saxton

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Schools privilege the already privileged

Eisa Nefertari Ulen - Truthout

The U.S. has never been a true meritocracy because American children have never had an equal chance at success

President Donald Trump speaks as he visits a new section of the border wall with Mexico in Calexico, CA, April 5, 2019. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

45's war on immigrants hurts the economy

Bob Hennelly

Immigration has already benefited sanctuary cities, but it is all America's secret sauce for broad-based prosperity

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