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Why save money if capitalism is ending?

Keith A. Spencer
Stormy Daniels (AP/Damairs Carter/Salon)

Stormy Daniels is a feminist hero

Nicole Karlis
(AP Photo, File)

Cleaning up the Baby Boomer mess

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
(AP)

The deepest fish in the sea

Mackenzie Gerringer - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Patients often overpay for prescriptions

Sydney Lupkin - KFF Health News
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Why people like music during sex

Carrie Weisman - Alternet
Nurse Kim Gates draws blood from Heidi Wyandt, 27, at the Altoona Center for Clinical Research in Altoona, Pa., on Wednesday, March 29, 2017, where Wyandt is helping test an experimental non-opioid pain medication for chronic back pain related to a work related injury she received in 2014. With about 2 million Americans hooked on opioid painkillers, researchers and drug companies are searching for less addictive drugs to treat pain. (AP Photo/Chris Post) (AP)

Opioid crisis leads to larger crisis

Pauline Bartolone - KFF Health News
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Adult brains don't grow new neurons

Shawn Sorrells, Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, Mercedes Paredes - The Conversation
Mick Mulvaney (Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

Mick Mulvaney: Dark-hearted leprechaun

Andrew O'Hehir
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Mental health treatment and violence

Sarah Desmarais - The Conversation
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Is hormonal birth control "dangerous"?

Nina Brochmann, Ellen Støkken Dahl
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What the frack?

Wenonah Hauter - Alternet
Donald Trump Jr. (Getty/Drew Angerer)

When a celebrity villain gets dumped

Erin Keane
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Air travel needs its #MeToo moment

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(AP/Richard Drew)

Goldman Sachs justifies its gender gap

Rachel Leah
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Congratulations, it's a "manel"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
FILE - This May 18, 2015 file photo shows irrigation pipes along a dry irrigation canal on a field near Stockton, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) (AP)

Drought leaves West out to dry

Eric Holthaus - Grist
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (Courtesy of Author/Seal Press)

My white-privilege wakeup call

Lauren Schiller
(AP/Julio Cortez)

I don't want to grow up

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Charles Koch; David Koch (CBS/AP/Photo montage by Salon)

Koch brothers vs. God

Kenya Downs - Grist
White nationalist Matthew Heimbach fights with demonstrators at Michigan State University as he and other alt-right advocates try to attend a speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer, March 5, 2018. (Getty/Scott Olson)

A hate group's self-destruction

Erin Keane
The Primary 1 class at Dunblane Primary School, pictured with teacher Gwenne Mayor, who was killed with sixteen of the children as gunman Thomas Hamilton burst into the class, shooting indiscriminately 13 March 1996. (Getty)

A shooting that changed things

Mary Elizabeth Williams
"A Conversation with White People on Race" (Michèle Stephenson and Blair Foster)

White liberals need to talk about race

Tom Roston
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (AP/Stephan Savoia)

Does Ruth Bader Ginsburg plan to retire?

Rachel Leah
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