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Tom Cotton (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Cotton: Not an Army Ranger after all

Roger Sollenberger

Arkansas senator has repeatedly said he served as "a U.S. Army Ranger in Iraq and Afghanistan." That's not true

un peeks out from behind the clouds in woman's head. (Getty Images)

Your brain is free at last! Now what?

Melanie McFarland

For five years an Orange Menace camped out in our brains. Now he's gone, what is possible? TV might have answers

Mosquito on the nose of cat (Getty Images)

Catnip does more than get cats high

Matthew Rozsa

A new study reveals that cats may use plants like catnip and silver vine to help ward off mosquitos

Firefighters and paramedics with Anne Arundel County Fire Department wear enhanced PPE, during the coronavirus pandemic, as they treat a patient in cardiac arrest as a result of a drug overdose on May 6, 2020, in Brooklyn, Maryland. (ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

"Stealth" opioid overdoses on the rise

Nicole Karlis

The opioid crisis and the pandemic are at least psychologically linked, as isolated people turn to drugs to cope

Donald Trump and Don Jr. (Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla/Scott Olson)

Don Jr. picks up where his dad left off

Jon Skolnik

Don Jr. is taking on the family mantle of tweeter-in-chief to level fallacious attacks at President Biden

U.S. President Joe Biden prepares to sign a series of executive orders at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office just hours after his inauguration on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. Biden became the 46th president of the United States earlier today during the ceremony at the U.S. Capitol. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

After Trump overdose, media must refocus

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch

Political media must pivot from "What did the president just say?" to a focus on what's actually getting done

Adarsh Gourav in "The White Tiger" (Tejinder Singh Khamkha/Netflix)

"The White Tiger" is terrifcally cynical

Gary M. Kramer

In this Netflix film, Balram dares to take advantage of every opportunity to change the hand society dealt him

Pro-Trump protesters and Proud Boys march in front of the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Proud Boys turn on the police

Roger Sollenberger

Proud Boys leader Joe Biggs once dined with Lindsey Graham at Trump's D.C. hotel. Now he's under arrest

Bernie Sanders and Mitch McConnell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Screw McConnell: Nuke the filibuster now

Amanda Marcotte

As McConnell kicks off his plan to filibuster Biden's presidency, his tool for obstruction needs to be taken away

(Rocky Luten / Food52)

Bringing a forgotten recipe to life

Charles Dabah - Food52

How serendipity, food memory and family brought a forgotten recipe to life

A protester dressed like the Statue of Liberty stands with a fist raised on the grounds of the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. A pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol earlier, breaking windows and clashing with police officers. Trump supporters gathered in the nation's capital to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over President Donald Trump in the 2020 election. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

America must avoid a collective amnesia

Heather Digby Parton

That feeling of a dazed stupor may be the first signs of a national hangover: America must avoid collective amnesia

Supporters of Q-Anon and crowds gather outside the U.S. Capitol for the "Stop the Steal" rally on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Trump supporters gathered in the nation's capital today to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over President Trump in the 2020 election. (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

QAnon believers struggle with reality

Igor Derysh

“Well I’m the official laughing stock of my family,” one QAnon follower said after Joe Biden was sworn in

Mitch McConnell; Charles Schumer (Getty/Alex Wong/Mark Wilson)

Filibuster face-off: Who'll blink first?

Jon Skolnik

Schumer: Dems to introduce a new bill to “renew democracy”

Paul Davis live-streaming during the Capitol Riot on January 6th, 2021. (Photo illustration by Salon/Instagram)

Capitol riot lawyer unleashes Kraken

Roger Sollenberger

"This is not a Sidney Powell lawsuit," Paul Davis assures court. True! Powell didn't argue for abolishing Congress

President-elect Joe Biden delivers remarks at the Queen Theater on December 28, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president in a scaled-down ceremony in Washington D.C. due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on January 20, 2021. (Mark Makela/Getty Images)

Biden calls for a united front on health

Julie Rovner - KFF Health News

Biden made it clear that combating the covid-19 pandemic will be his top priority

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) (Getty Images/ Jim Lo Scalzo-Pool)

Texas GOP vows to fight Biden's agenda

Bryan Mena - The Texas Tribune

Some Texas Republicans in Congress called for bipartisanship, but many others criticized Biden's early policy moves

Former President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden at the White House on November 13, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Operation Warp Speed is creating chaos

Caroline Chen, Isaac Arnsdorf, Ryan Gabrielson - ProPublica

States struggle to plan their vaccination programs with just one week’s notice for how many doses they’ll receive

Mike Lindell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Prostock-Studio/Peter Dazeley/Drew Angerer)

I kicked Lindell's MyPillows out of bed

Melanie McFarland

It was a time too long in coming, but at long last we're no longer sleeping with the enemy

dinosaur on beach (Getty Images)

New fossil sheds light on dinosaur sex

Matthew Rozsa

The dinosaur "butt" discovery is actually a cloaca, a cavity used for reproduction common among many vertebrates

Steve Doocy and Ainsley Earhardt on Fox & Friends (Fox News)

"That is what the Republican Party is"

David Edwards - Raw Story

"That is what the Republican Party is"

A picture taken on May 14, 2020 shows a Titan Arum flower that flourished the day before at the Belgian National Botanic Gardens in Meise. - The Titan Arum is the biggest flower on earth and it takes several years for the plant to make one single flower blossom. Particular to the flower is its strong, bad smell. (LAURIE DIEFFEMBACQ/BELGA/AFP via Getty Images)

Breathing life into the corpse flower

Doug Johnson - Undark

In botanic gardens, the lineage of a famously smelly plant is threatened. Can a new collaborative program save it?

Ivanka Trump and former President Donald Trump (Getty/Brendan Smialowski)

Trump runs up a tab before leaving town

Jon Skolnik

The ex-president's order of Secret Service protection for his adult children and top loyalists will cost millions

Donald Trump | Twitter Logo (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Twitter)

Trump's Twitter ban brings peace

Amanda Marcotte

Trump's incitement was crucial whipping right-wing mobs to violence. Muting him helped settle them down

US President Joe Biden signs three documents including an Inauguration declaration, cabinet nominations and sub-cabinet noinations in the Presidents Room at the US Capitol after the inauguration ceremony to making Biden the 46th President of the United States on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. During today's inauguration ceremony Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States. (Jim Lo Scalzo-Pool/Getty Images)

Experts back Biden's COVID-19 policies

Matthew Rozsa

Medical experts agree: Biden's new measures for fighting COVID-19 are a big step in the right direction

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