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Tired, working woman sleeping on laptop late at night. (Getty Images)

The lie of the "flexible" workplace

Kyle Lewis, Will Stronge
Are We There Yet: Perfectionist Kids and Parenting (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The perils of wanting a "perfect" kid

Gail Cornwall
California Governor Gavin Newsom and Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/David McNew/Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

Recall candidates differ on health care

Samantha Young, Rachel Bluth - KFF Health News
A woman depositing a plastic bottle in a recycling bin (Getty Images/Andrew Fox)

Holding manufacturers accountable

Jessica Heiges, Kate O'Neill - The Conversation
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Pro-choice protesters march outside the Texas State Capitol on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021 in Austin, TX. (Sergio Flores For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Pregnancy more dangerous than abortion

Amanda Stevenson
A bustling hallway in the emergency department at Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital due to coronavirus (COVID-19) patients in Oceanside, New York (Jeffrey Basinger/Newsday via Getty Images)

Care rationing no longer a hypothetical

Paula Schaap
A healthcare worker wearing a personal protective equipment (PPE) attends to Covid-19 patient wearing oxygen mask inside a Covid-19 care center set up at shehnai banquet hall attached with Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital (LNJP) one of the largest COVID-19 facilities. (Naveen Sharma/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

India struggles to count its dead

Disha Shetty - Undark
A candlelight vigil drawing over 1,000 people in the days after the devastating 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York City's World Trade Center & the Pentagon. (Steve Liss/Getty Images)

Why 9/11 united and COVID-19 divided

Nicole Karlis
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Colleges gravitate to requiring vaccines

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
Plant Manager of the City of Los Angeles Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant points out the ongoing repairs to the underground pipe room that runs under much of the plant on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021 in Playa Del Rey, CA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Why we need to end big sewage

Chelsea Wald - Undark
Firefighters walk towards one of the tower at the World Trade Center before it collapsed after a plane hit the building September 11, 2001 in New York City. (Jose Jimenez/Primera Hora/Getty Images)

The 9/11 death toll is wrong by half

Bob Hennelly
The 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet called HD 106906 b, shown in this artist's illustration, occupies an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away. It may be offering clues to something that might be much closer to home: a hypothesized distant member of our solar system dubbed "Planet Nine." This is the first time that astronomers have been able to measure the motion of a massive Jupiter-like planet that is orbiting very far away from its host stars and visible debris disk. ( NASA/M. Kornmesser/ESA/Hubble)

Scientists may know how to find Planet 9

Nicole Karlis
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Joe Biden and COVID-19 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden: It's the jab or your job

Matthew Rozsa
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How rape affects memory

Sammy Caiola, Capital Public Radio - KFF Health News
New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (C) leads US Senator Charles Schumer, R-NY (2nd L), New York Governor George Pataki (2nd R) and US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-NY (R), on a tour of the site of the World Trade Center disaster 12 September 2001 in New York. (ROBERT F. BUKATY/AFP via Getty Images)

Your memory of 9/11 is wrong

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A man uses heroin under a bridge where he lives with other addicts in the Kensington section of Philadelphia which has become a hub for heroin use on January 24, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Getty/Spencer Platt)

The history of harm reduction

Troy Farah - Undark
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The sun sets behind power lines in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images)

3 ways to prevent a mass power outage

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
A deer stag, dog, rat and mink looking at COVID-19 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

COVID-19 infects the animal world

Matthew Rozsa
A sign is displayed at Planned Parenthood (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Telemedicine abortions may hurt clinics

Amy Littlefield - KFF Health News
Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York (Photo by Stephanie Keith); Daniel Barban Levin's book "Slonim Woods 9" (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty/Penguin Random House) (Salon/Getty/Penguin Random House)

Inside the "Sarah Lawrence cult"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Chicken mushrooms in the forest (Getty Images)

Flora, fauna, and … funga?

Jonathan Moens - Undark
Medical imaging of various stages of embryo and fetal development during pregnancy (Getty stock photo)

When life begins: a question of politics

Sahotra Sarkar - The Conversation
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Your COVID game plan: are stadiums safe?

Phil Galewitz, Andy Miller - KFF Health News
Dog medicine (Getty Images/Capuski)

Are anti-depressants for dogs ethical?

Matthew Rozsa
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