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California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Is GOP blowing its CA recall chances?

Alex Henderson - Alternet
Published 4 years ago

One conservative pundit described him as "basically a walking Boomer Facebook meme"

Comedian Maz Jobrani performs at "Loose Change" on October 29, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. | Writer/director Negin Farsad speaks onstage at the "3rd Street Blackout" screening during the 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival on June 13, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. | Comedian Dean Obeidallah is seen performing in the liberal comedy show on Broadway called "Laughing Liberally: This Ain't No Tea Party," on April 11, 2011 in Manhattan, NY. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Alberto E. Rodriguez/Jennifer S. Altman)

How 9/11 affected stand-up comedy

Dean Obeidallah
Published 4 years ago

Negin Farsad, Maz Jobrani and Dean Obeidallah appeared on "Salon Talks" to discuss how stand-up evolved since 9/11

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
Published 4 years ago

America missed its pandemic kumbaya moment. Disaster resilience researchers think they know why

Participants representing victims of gun violence attend a vigil to mark the 5th anniversary of the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, at Rutgers Presbyterian Church, December 14, 2017 in New York City. 20 children and six adults were killed in the shooting. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Remington subpoenas Sandy Hook families

Igor Derysh
Published 4 years ago

“There is no conceivable way that these [records] will assist Remington in its defense," families' attorney says

Donald Trump and Mike Lindell (Photo illustration by Salon/Jabin Botsford/Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Trump, Lindell held secret meeting

Zachary Petrizzo
Published 4 years ago

MyPillow guy apparently dined with Trump - on the very day he'd previously predicted Trump would be "reinstated"

(Getty/Chet Strange)

Defining "terrorism" 20 years after 9/11

Amanda Marcotte
Published 4 years ago

What does "terrorism" mean in an era when most terrorists are aligned with mainstream GOP politics?

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about combatting the coronavirus pandemic in the State Dining Room of the White House on September 9, 2021 in Washington, DC. As the Delta variant continues to spread around the United States, Biden outlined his administration's six point plan, including a requirement that all federal workers be vaccinated against Covid-19. Biden is also instructing the Department of Labor to draft a rule mandating that all businesses with 100 or more employees require their workers to get vaccinated or face weekly testing. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

GOP vows to block Biden's mandates

Jon Skolnik
Published 4 years ago

Right-wing media calls Biden's new vaccine mandates "tyrannical" and "authoritarian"

Amy Coney Barrett, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The new Republican Supreme Court

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
Published 4 years ago

Today's cruel and partisan Supreme Court is squandering what remains of its authority

Nooria, 35, decided to leave after the fighting in Kunduz arrived in her home, when a rocket landed in her house and injured her son in his leg and might now require amputation, according to doctors that spoke to her, after she took her entire family and fled to a makeshift camp for displaced Afghans fleeing the fighting between the Taliban and the Afghan Security Forces at Hasa-e-Awal Park, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021. (Getty Images/Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times)

Taliban returns, women to lose rights

Azadah Raz Mohammad, Jenna Sapiano - The Conversation
Published 4 years ago

What does the return of the Taliban mean for women and girls?

Picture of fresh red tomatoes in the market (Getty Images/Maxim Morales)

5 perfect end-of-summer recipes

Ashlie D. Stevens
Published 4 years ago

Hit the farmer’s market for end-of-season produce — and make an easy dinner that doesn't leave you in the heat

Donald Trump, a painting of the Confederate army losing and the January 6, 2021 US Capitol Riot (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump is trying to rehab Robert E. Lee

Heather Digby Parton
Published 4 years ago

Trump thinks "genius" Robert E. Lee would have won the war in Afghanistan

(Getty/Vasyl Dolmato)

Colleges gravitate to requiring vaccines

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
Published 4 years ago

Schools across the country are taking steps to enforce public health advice to keep people safe from COVID-19

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
Published 4 years ago

To "futureproof" wastewater treatment against the rising threats of climate change, sewage should go local.

Gretchen Whitmer (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

Michigan GOP's not-so-secret plan

Igor Derysh
Published 4 years ago

Michigan GOP playbook “reads more and more like it was written by a Disney villain," says Rep. Matt Koleszar

A protestor dressed as a character from the Hulu TV show "The Handmaid's Tale," based on the best-selling novel by Margaret Atwood, walks back to her car after participating in a rally against one of the nation's most restrictive bans on abortions on May 19, 2019 in Montgomery, Alabama. (Julie Bennett/Getty Images)

What year is it in America?

Chauncey DeVega
Published 4 years ago

Roe v. Wade is dead. The assault on democracy is unrelenting. Our worst enemy may be the sense of disbelief

Lauren Boebert poses for a portrait at Shooters Grill in Rifle, Colorado on April 24, 2018 (EMILY KASK/AFP via Getty Images)

Boebert leaves 8-year-old with guns

Zachary Petrizzo
Published 4 years ago

In apparent violation of Colorado's new gun safety law, congresswoman's son plays alone near rifle and handgun

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about combatting the coronavirus pandemic in the State Dining Room of the White House on September 9, 2021. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Biden: "Even Fox" has vaccine mandate

Brad Reed - Raw Story
Published 4 years ago

"Some of the biggest companies are already requiring this. United Airlines. Disney. Tyson's Food. Even Fox News"

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Madison Cawthorn and Lauren Boebert (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Dem memo: Attack "extremist" Republicans

Alex Henderson - Alternet
Published 4 years ago

Democrats also plan to make COVID-19 a major issue in the 2022 midterms

Lingui (MUBI)

"Injustice is against women, always"

Gary M. Kramer
Published 4 years ago

Filmmaker Mahamat-Saleh Haroun spoke to Salon about telling the story of "two women heroes of daily life in Chad"

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
Published 4 years ago

Lies about the smoldering toxic air and its health effects have led to thousands more casualties

Manny Jacinto in "Nine Perfect Strangers" (Vince Valitutti/Hulu)

Manny Jacinto on Nine Perfect Strangers

Kylie Cheung
Published 4 years ago

The actor spoke to Salon about Tranquillum, working with Nicole Kidman, his career and "Top Gun: Maverick"

Meghan McCain (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Netflix)

Meghan McCain has a new job

Brett Bachman
Published 4 years ago

The 36-year-old political scion is returning to media

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
Published 4 years ago

A new study increases the odds that Planet Nine is real, and possibly closer to Earth than previously thought

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

DOJ sues Texas over abortion ban

Jon Skolnik
Published 4 years ago

Attorney General Merrick Garland said the law is "in open defiance of the Constitution"

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