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Fruit basketed in a medical mask on the ground by the border wall (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster/Salon)

Sick with COVID-19 in ICE detention

Raul Luna Gonzalez, Gabriel Thompson
Father and toddler son making paper plane at home (Getty Images)

Fathering in the age of COVID-19

Ronald F. Levant
Group of friends enjoying the Pride Parade (Getty Images)

The queering of friendship  

Mia Birdsong
The Golden Thirteen: How Black Men Won the Right to Wear Navy Gold by Dan Goldberg (Beacon Press/Salon)

History repeating on racism, violence

Dan C. Goldberg
Doctor writing on clipboard (Getty Images)

When illness and family secrets collide

Mikkael Sekeres
Letter sent to Madeleine L'Engle from editor James Henle in regards to her story, "Summer Camp" | The Moment of Tenderness by Madeleine L'Engle (Grand Central Publishing/Crosswicks)

Read this early Madeleine L'Engle story

Madeleine L'Engle
AMERICAN FLAG WITH 13 STARS REPRESENTING THE COLONIES COLONIAL 1776 REVOLUTION (Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images)

Irish Americans in the Revolutionary War

Phillip Thomas Tucker
Unique robotic internal organ - steel heart with info screen (Getty Images/Salon)

Medical implants vulnerable to hackers

Richard Yonck
Loving bride and groom looking at each other and communicating while standing on a rain and protecting themselves with an umbrella. (Getty Images)

The irony of how we use the word "irony"

Roger Kreuz
Kokanee, Also Known As Sockeye, Salmon Spawning In Big Creek, Fresno, United States (Getty Images)

To save the salmon, the dams have to go

Mark Kurlansky
"The Future of Feeling: Building Empathy in a Tech-Obsessed World" by Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips (Little A/Getty Images/Salon)

The empathy gap at work

Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips
Yelling Awards Statues (Getty Images/Salon)

Why Hollywood speaks up at the Oscars

Naomi McDougall Jones
Full Dissidence: Notes From An Uneven Playing Field by Howard Bryant (Beacon Press)

Trump: The white backlash president

Howard Bryant
"The Stars In Our Pockets" by Howard Axelrod (Getty Images/Beacon Press)

What shapes the way we see?

Howard Axelrod
On the outskirts of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, the municipality of Canaan extends. This was created after the earthquake on 12 January 2010, which killed more than 220 000 people in the poor Caribbean state. Today around 300,000 people live there. (Nick Kaiser/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Voices from Haiti, after the earthquake

Edwidge Danticat
Hurricane Irma seen striking Miami, Florida with 100+ mph winds and destructive storm surge, and "Building A Resilient Tomorrow" by Alice C. Hill & Leonardo Martinez-Diaz (Oxford University Press)

When will the US learn from disasters?

Alice C. Hill, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz
"What Science Is and How It Really Works" by James C. Zimring (Cambridge University Press/Getty Images)

Why science is a social construct

James C. Zimring
Cotton farmer in India (Andrew Flachs)

Technology isn't making us happier

Andrew Flachs
Quicken Loans is headquartered at the One Campus Martius building, located in DOwntown Detroit. (Photo courtesy of Quicken Loans Press Room)

Downtown Detroit revival but not for all

Jodie Adams Kirshner
Birds in a backyard, feeding their babies (Getty Images)

How I coped with overnight hearing loss

Noel Holston
The Boy Who Felt Too Much by Lorenz Wagner (Getty Images/Arcade)

The boy who felt too much

Lorenz Wagner
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (CW)

Lights, camera, depression

Amanda Rosenberg
The main gate at the prison in Guantanamo at the U.S. Guantanamo Naval Base on October 16, 2018. (Sylvie Lanteaume/AFP via Getty Images)

Inside the Guatánamo prisoner name leak

Peter Jan Honigsberg
Aldous Huxley (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Huxley foresaw our Big Data nightmare

Ramesh Srinivasan
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