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A protester holds a US flag and a placard during a nationwide "No Kings" rally in Louisville, Kentucky, on June 14, 2025 (LEANDRO LOZADA/AFP via Getty Images)

'No Kings' should be just the beginning

'No Kings' should be just the beginning

We need a powerful — and independent — movement against Trumpism

Mavis Staples performs during the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024 (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Mavis Staples' gospel of resistance

Chauncey DeVega

Mavis Staples' gospel of resistance

Chauncey DeVega

Protecting democracy requires many soldiers in "the army of love”

President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on March 31, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump cuts mean more misinformation

H. Colleen Sinclair - The Conversation

Trump is using discredited claims to make it easier to mislead Americans

Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the third day of her confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on October 14, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

"The real wild card"

Tatyana Tandanpolie

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is seen as a swing vote on the rights of transgender youth

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Shakshuka (Alexander Spatari / Getty Images )

No plan? Start with a tomato and egg

Ashlie D. Stevens

Across cultures and kitchens, this elemental pairing asks little and gives everything

(L-R) Levon Helm, Richard Manuel, Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko and Garth Hudson of The Band, 1971 (Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns/Getty Images)

The Band’s secret weapon gets his due

Stephen Lewis’ biography focuses on the creative life rather than the tragic end of The Band's unsung genius

President Trump, sitting alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and First Lady Melania Trump, observes U.S. Army tanks traveling down Pennsylvania Avenue, during a celebration of the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary and his birthday on Flag Day, June 14, 2025 in Washington. (Tom Brenner For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

States' rights, but only for GOP states

Heather Digby Parton

The once hallowed GOP concept is under threat by a would-be king

Amanda Marcotte in Salon's New York studio. (Salon)

Standing Room Only with Amanda Marcotte

Her popular newsletter is now a weekly show delivering sharp, honest takes on politics and culture every Thursday

7 places to find porn that's actually worth watching

Carrie Weisman - Alternet

There's no shortage of porn on the Internet, but good porn? That's another story. Here are some places to look

From "Mar-a-Lago face" to uncanny AI art: MAGA loves ugly in submission to Trump

"Mar-a-Lago" face: A new MAGA aesthetic

Amanda Marcotte

One of the swiftest ways to "trigger" the liberals is looking awful

My father's bed

My father's bed

Delaney Anderson

I thought it meant that I was special. I didn't know it would turn sex into an act of shame.

Bro-country has curdled

Bro-country has curdled

Morgan Wallen and his imitators are here for a long time, not a good time

We're pausing before purchasing in Trump's tariff era

We're pausing before purchasing

Daria Solovieva

Shoppers are staying online — and some are spending less — amid Trump's erratic policies

Dr. John Gartner on a tale of two brains: "Biden's brain is aging. Trump's brain is dementing"

"Trump's brain is dementing"

Chauncey DeVega

"This is a fundamental breakdown in the ability to use language," the renowned mental health expert says of Trump

NEWS & POLITICS

Bullet holes are seen in the door outside the home of State Sen. John Hoffman on June 15, 2025 in Champlin, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

MAGA blames Dems for Minnesota shooting

Amanda Marcotte

False counter-narratives signal to other terrorists that MAGA has their back

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks after signing an executive order on expanding access to IVF at his Mar-a-Lago resort on February 18, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Trump warns Iran to "evacuate Tehran"

Trump painted Israel's strikes on Iran as inevitable in a new post to social media

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Judge: Trump must restore NIH funds

A federal judge called the Trump admin cuts to NIH funds "appalling" and discriminatory

Tucker Carlson speaks at his Live Tour at the Desert Diamond Arena on October 31, 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Tucker Carlson attacks Fox News

Cheyenne McNeill

Carlson accused the network of trying to force analyst Mark Levin on viewers

A robot using artificial intelligence is displayed at a stand during the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, on May 30, 2024. (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

"Summoning the demon": MAGA splits on AI

"Summoning the demon": MAGA splits on AI

Some on the right see artificial intelligence as an apocalyptic threat from Big Tech

America In One Room (Helena.org)

One weird trick — to save democracy?

Stanford prof James Fishkin says he can end political deadlock, and build true democracy for the internet age

Everybody hates Bibi — but he's winning

Forget Trump — he just caddies for this guy. Like it or not, Benjamin Netanyahu is the 21st century's antihero

A film on life after Roe became reality

Trump's rollback of emergency abortion protections will cost lives

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Tom Hiddleston as Charles "Chuck" Krantz in "The Life of Chuck" (Courtesy of Neon)

Please, anything but a twee revival!

Please, anything but a twee revival!

With its feel-good banalities, Tom Hiddleston's latest film lands somewhere between sincerity and "YOLO: The Movie"

French bulldog sleeping with a pacifier (damedeeso/getty images)

It's time to legitimize pet parents

The backlash against pet parents reflects deeper anxieties about who gets to define what counts as a real family

The final fact-check of Joan Didion

One of the year’s best books yet shows us an author at odds with her own storytelling

Don't call "Materialists" a rom-com

In the follow-up to "Past Lives," Celine Song proves she's mainstream cinema's most perceptive filmmaker

Sabrina Carpenter performs live during The BRIT Awards 2025 (Samir Hussein/WireImage/Getty Images)

Sabrina Carpenter's sexpot feminism

Amanda Marcotte

Feminists can't let male porn producers be the only ones selling sex

Barbara Walters as seen in "Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything" (ABC News Studios)

Barbara Walters, the unflattering truth

The director of "Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything" discusses the challenge of telling Walters' multifaceted story

Paul McCartney and Brian Wilson perform together at the 2nd Annual Adopt-A-Minefield Benefit "Open Hearts, Clear Mines." (KMazur/WireImage/Getty Images)

Brian Wilson made The Beatles aim higher

Wilson's ambition stoked a creative rivalry with The Beatles, redefining the artistic potential of popular music

An em dash in a gold frame. (Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images /fotograzia/PATSTOCK)

AI can’t have my em dash

Gen Z and AI have pulled a divisive punctuation mark into the spotlight

1950s smiling housewife at stove giving happy husband a taste of her cooking (Getty Images/Debrocke/ClassicStock)

Gen Z tradwife bros need to go

Katie Gatti Tassin

Younger men want to return to older times — but we shouldn't forget why we left those behind

Young business woman with fake eyes painted on adhesive note sleeping at workplace in office (Getty Images/thianchai sitthikongsak)

Ghostworking isn't as scary as it seems

Keith R. Spencer

If companies want to reduce ghostworking, they need to start listening

Man Holding Empty Pockets (Getty Images/RUNSTUDIO)

Wake me up when we're not in a recession

Mark G. Sheppard

Most of us concluded long ago that wages are too low, bills are too high and good jobs are too hard to find

Emma Grede at the 2024 Fifteen Percent Pledge Benefit Gala held at Paramount Studios on Feb. 3, 2024 in Los Angeles. (Getty Images/Variety)

Work-life balance isn't a perk

SKIMS co-founder Emma Grede is wrong — wanting a life outside work is not a red flag

Recruiters for the City of Pompano Beach speak to job seekers during the JobNewsUSA.com South Florida Job Fair held at the Amerant Bank Arena on June 26, 2024, in Sunrise, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Finding online support after a job loss

Daria Solovieva

Finding online support after a job loss

Daria Solovieva

The unemployed are bracing for the toughest job market in years

Yvie Oddly, Jinkx Monsoon, The Vivienne, and Jaida Essence Hall in the "Total Ru-quest Live" episode of "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars" (World of Wonder/Paramount+)

What's dragging queens down

Between makeup, hair and costumes, it’s not uncommon for performers to barely break even

FOMO is putting Gen Zers in debt

Cara Michelle Smith

The pressure to document the most interesting parts of their lives comes with a price tag

Bond investments look better than ever

They're less risky than stocks, can offer steady income and deserve a spot in your portfolio

SCIENCE & HEALTH

Dehorning rhinos — to save them

Elizabeth Hlavinka

Sawing off rhinos' horns is keeping these magnificent creatures alive. Is selling those horns the next step?

Who's the real invasive species?

Carlyn Zwarenstein

Our cities and suburbs have spiders, rats, raccoons, lizards — and people. Which of us is really the invader?

Nimbus variant could start summer surge

Elizabeth Hlavinka

As COVID-19 variant NB.1.8.1 spreads around the world, concerns about vaccine accessibility are rising

A culture war is brewing over AI

Conor Purcell - Undark

As AI systems increasingly display emotion, genuine or not, public opinion will split around calls for their rights

Helping pap smears be less painful

Unrecognized pain conditions have long made pap smears excruciating for some — that’s slowly changing

AI head. (Getty Images / Andriy Onufriyenko)

AI is making us dumber

Elizabeth Hlavinka

AI is making us dumber

Elizabeth Hlavinka

Whether we lose some of the skills artificial intelligence performs for us largely depends on how we use this tech

Boston terrier wearing headphones listening to music. (Getty Images / retales botijero)

The animals that keep a beat

Elizabeth Hlavinka

The ability to keep a beat was once thought to be uniquely human. Some animals are suggesting otherwise

Fentanyl test strip with bottle of life saving Naloxone. (Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Trump will make overdoses soar again

Charles LeBaron

Under Trump and RFK Jr., gutting key government agencies could make overdoses soar again

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Chocolate bar by Siamaya (Siamaya)

Love Thai food? Try its chocolate

Love Thai food? Try its chocolate

Craft bars infused with lime, Thai tea and even fish sauce are putting Thai chocolate on the map

Zucchini deserves an apology

Summer's signature squash is often criticized for being too abundant. But is that really a problem?

Barbeque, but make it fine dining

Ximena N. Beltran Quan Kiu

A 175-seat spot is changing the story of what BBQ can look — and taste — like

No gatekeeping. Just perfect pasta sauce

Ashlie D. Stevens

This sauce doesn’t need a stove — or a secret ingredient

Radish greens are the real prize

From salads to pesto and stews, radish greens are not only edible, but incredibly nutritious and versatile

Tim Dillon defends Long Island's food

The stand-up comedian also defended whole milk and shared what he thinks is the most influential fast food item

Produce market haul (Getty Images / d3sign)

How to build a farmers market dinner

A culinary expert shares his tried-and-tested tips for cooking up a feast using farmers market goodies

Variety of deviled eggs (AlexPro9500 / Getty Images )

Egg flights: Brunch’s new bizarre flex

The viral brunch trend, which swaps out wine for hard-boiled eggs, has taken over TikTok

Correspondence with cartoonist Howard Cruse (Photo illustration by Salon/Photos courtesy of the author/Getty Images)

Reading my mom's mail with Howard Cruse

Reading her letters was the only way I could know her now. But opening the mail took me more than 30 years

Italy, Magenta Hospital, Emergency. (Giovanni Mereghetti/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Moving to Italy for health care was wise

Getting surgery wasn't my only reason for relocating to Italy, but it was certainly the smartest

Couple toasting glasses of champagne (Getty Images/kieferpix)

Love in the time of delirium

I met him at a New Year's party, shortly after my mother became unmoored in time and space

Man with cracked tooth smile (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

I can’t afford to replace my veneers

My mom sacrificed to buy me an aspirational smile. It was supposed to set me up for financial success

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