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Passengers pet dogs at Dmitri Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk International Airport as part of the Emotional Support Dog project (Andrei SamsonovTASS via Getty Images)

Support animals not cleared for take-off

Nicole Karlis

A federal rule change at the behest of airline trade groups is kicking support animals off of flights

Abstract illustration of happy nonbinary / transgender person (iStock/Getty Images)

Trans youth before trans health care

Jules Gill-Peterson - The Conversation

Few trans kids in the early 20th century had access to information about trans life

High Bridge Park Pool at 174th Street on June 27, 2014 in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

The resilience of Washington Heights

Robert W. Snyder - The Conversation

The diverse neighborhood has faced down the COVID-19 and gentrification through solidarity and activism

Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a press conference announcing a voting rights enforcement action against the state of Georgia during an event at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, on June 25, 2021. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

DOJ sues Georgia over new voting law

Igor Derysh

Attorney General Garland vowed action against other states whose voting restrictions may violate federal law

Tucker Carlson and the Capitol Rioters (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Right-wing calls for violence get louder

Amanda Marcotte

Fox News and OAN get even more shameless about fueling violent fascist urges in the Trump base

Britney Spears onstage performing at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards held at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in New York City on September 6, 2001. (Scott Gries/ImageDirect/Getty Images)

Britney and millennial women are fed up

Tabitha Blankenbiller

The pop star is fighting back against a system that has been trying to tear her down and not allow her to just be

US President Donald Trump walks with US Attorney General William Barr (L), US Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper (C), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark A. Milley (R), and others from the White House to visit St. John's Church after the area was cleared of people protesting the death of George Floyd June 1, 2020, in Washington, DC (Getty Images)

Trump tests the right's patriotism

Heather Digby Parton

If there's one lasting legacy of Donald Trump it's that there are no longer any sacred cows on the American right

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the COVID-19 response and the vaccination program during an event at the State Dining Room of the White House May 4, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden set a new goal to have 70% of adult Americans with at least one shot and at least 160 Americans fully vaccinated by July 4th, 2021. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Biden quietly transforms Medicaid

Noam N. Levey, Phil Galewitz - KFF Health News

It's clear Biden's efforts are a reversal of the Trump administration’s moves to scale back the safety-net program

Paper illustration of human hands and coronavirus in a lab (Getty Images)

Why labs work with deadly viruses

Jerry Malayer - The Conversation

Microbes are everywhere – and they aren’t all friendly

Spices in the Culinary Technology Lab at ICE. (Photo courtesy of the Institute of Culinary Education)

How the pros buy and store spices

Palak Patel - Institute of Culinary Education

This is how to shop for spices like an expert

NotMilk, Whole Milk and Oat Milk on a Whole Foods shelf (Ashlie Stevens)

We taste tested the plant-based NotMilk

Ashlie D. Stevens

I drank it straight, poured it in coffee and used it in a basic Béchamel sauce. Here’s what happened

Kevin McCarthy and Mark Meadows, connection to the January 6, 2021 Capitol Riot (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How McCarthy and Meadows bent the rules

Zachary Petrizzo

Two high-ranking House Republicans wove a tangled web of apparent corruption — and it was all (barely) legal

This Country by Chris Matthews (Photo illustration by Salon/Simon & Schuster/Brian Sager)

Chris Matthews: I fear for democracy

Dean Obeidallah

Longtime political insider and MSNBC host sees something new — there's one party that doesn't want people to vote

Donald Trump, Merrick Garland and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Former Bush lawyer: Send Trump to jail

Chauncey DeVega

Onetime White House lawyer Richard Painter: Federal prosecutors love presidential power more than actual justice

Former President Donald Trump speaks as Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, Army General Mark Milley, looks on. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Trump to military: "Shoot" protesters

Matthew Chapman - Raw Story

"Well, shoot them in the leg — or maybe the foot," Trump reportedly said when military officials pushed back

Peter Thiel (John Lamparski/Getty Images)

Thiel's $5B retirement account tax dodge

Justin Elliott, Patricia Callahan, James Bandler - ProPublica

Thiel and other ultrawealthy investors have used Roth IRAs to amass vast untaxed fortunes, IRS records show

Sean Hannity, left, and Tucker Carlson (Getty Images)

Fox civil war erupts: Hannity vs. Tucker

Brett Bachman

"Some people at Fox apparently don't like me, and said bad things about me gutlessly behind my back," Hannity said

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Gaetz deletes "defund" FBI tweet

Zachary Petrizzo

A Gaetz spokesperson said the Congressman "felt it appropriate to remove a jocular tweet"

Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy shakes a finger during his second appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on March 9, 1950. (Getty Images)

Miami Herald rips GOP campus survey

Alex Henderson - Alternet

The measure is a recipe for "paranoia, persecution and the opposite of the free speech Republicans say they want"

Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in "Interview with the Vampire" (Francois Duhamel/Sygma via Getty Images)

"Interview With the Vampire" resurrected

Julia Pedrozo Santiago

AMC will adapt Anne Rice's popular gothic novel that once was adapted into a film starting Tom Cruise & Brad Pitt

Britney Spears (Getty Images/Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

Spears highlights the dark side of IUDs

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Getting and removing an IUD is hard enough without being forced to keep one in, as Britney Spears was

A reporter with One America News Network microphone (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

OAN: Mass "execution" for Trump foes

Zachary Petrizzo

"America had a very good solution for dealing with such traitors: execution," an OANN host said Wednesday

David Keene, gave a speech to empty chairs in a Las Vegas stadium for the James Madison Academy 2021 graduating class. (YouTube/Change the Ref)

Ex-NRA chair tricked into anti-gun ad

Brenley Goertzen

Empty chairs were placed in a stadium to represent seniors who didn't graduate this year because of gun violence

A cardboard cutout depicting Britney Spears is seen during a #FreeBritney protest at Los Angeles Grand Park during a conservatorship hearing for Spears on June 23, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. Spears is expected to address the court remotely. Spears was placed in a conservatorship managed by her father, Jamie Spears, and an attorney, which controls her assets and business dealings, following her involuntary hospitalization for mental care in 2008. (Rich Fury/Getty Images)

Bombshell testimony revives #FreeBritney

Kylie Cheung

Spears compared a rehab program she was forced to enter to "sex trafficking," among other horrifying revelations

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