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This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova explosion with a rapidly spinning neutron star embedded in its center. In October 2017, astronomers detected the merger of two neutron stars some 130 million light-years away. (Getty/NASA)

How neutron stars make gold

Keith A. Spencer
Tommie Smith and John Carlos extend their fists during the playing of the "Star-Spangled Banner" after the 200-meter run at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City, Oct. 16, 1968. (AP)

The secret of Carlos and Smith's protest

Rachel Leah
Paul Ryan (Getty/Win McNamee)

Why the GOP still has the 2018 edge

Matthew Rozsa
Ilana Glazer (Getty/Angela Weiss)

Ilana Glazer fired sexual harassers

Jarrett Lyons
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Steven Mnuchin (Getty/Mandel Ngan)

Mnuchin: Yes, tax cuts will help rich

Matthew Rozsa
McKayla Maroney (Getty/John Thys)

McKayla Maroney alleges sexual assualt

Leigh C. Anderson
(Getty/Nicholas Kamm)

Trump's phone call defense falls apart

Matthew Rozsa
NFL players kneel during the the national anthem at FedExField on September 24, 2017. (Getty/Patrick Smith)

Did Trump just lose his war with the NFL

Charlie May
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(Getty/Win McNamee)

Trump denounces health care deal

Rachel Leah

Tomi Lahren misses the point

Jeremy Binckes
(Getty/Mark Wilson)

Democrats on the verge of Alabama win

Matthew Rozsa
(Twitter/Mike Sacks)

Political correspondent calls out Trump

Chris Sosa - Alternet
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Judge blocks latest Muslim ban

Ilana Novick - Alternet
Steve Bannon (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Bannon battles GOP, likes their tax plan

Matthew Rozsa
(AP/Evan Vucci)

Trump picks another Gold Star battle

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/Photo montage by Salon)

Trump's politics of sabotage

Heather Digby Parton
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Campaign rally for democratic socialist Bernie Sanders (AP/Stephen Brashear)

Labor and socialism in the US

Bill Fletcher Jr., Shaun Richman - In These Times
Leslie Garnica searches in the ashes of her home that was destroyed by fire in Santa Rosa, Calif., Oct. 10, 2017. (AP/Ben Margot)

California’s wildfires officially worst

Eric Holthaus - Grist
Ryan ZInke (Getty/Mark Wilson)

Battling Secretary Zinke's coal giveaway

Amanda Marcotte
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How genetics undermines racism

Adam Rutherford
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(AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

"Fake news" or free speech?

Matthew Sheffield
(Getty/oversnap)

How sugar affects cancer cells

Charlie May
(Getty/Photo montage by Salon)

The unending state of emergency

Todd Gitlin - BillMoyers.com
A statue titled "Fearless Girl" faces the Wall Street bull, Wednesday, March 8, 2017, in New York. A big investment firm, State Street Global Advisors, put the statue there to highlight International Women's Day. The work by artist Kristen Visbal. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) (AP)

The statue and the serial abuser

Sarah Banet-Weiser - The Conversation
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