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Katherine Langford as Nimue in "Cursed" (LUDOVIC ROBERT/Netflix)

"Cursed" isn't blessed with greatness

Melanie McFarland

The quest for the next great fantasy franchise and a believable heroine at the heart of it continues . . .

Illuminati triangle on a dollar bill | COVID-19 (Getty Images/Salon)

Experts debunk COVID-19 conspiracies

Matthew Rozsa

Researchers and professors comment on the origin of pandemic misinformation, and how to debunk such claims

Donald Trump | An Infographic of the Electoral vote breakdown from the 2016 Presidential Election (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

The Electoral College is vulnerable

Steven Heilman - The Conversation

When attempting to protect an election from outside influence, the Electoral College is weaker than a popular vote

Doctors treat a homeless person suffering from an ear infection on July 25, 2019 in Caracas, Venezuela. Panabus is a network of assistance for homeless people, which seeks to enhance the dignity of those who care for, offering through mobile units the basic services of: personal hygiene, primary medical care and community kitchen. (Carolina Cabral/Getty Images)

How the pandemic hit Americans

Rajan Menon - TomDispatch.com

Selective in its impact, the virus has struck the homeless hard

Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

Trump's campaign is disintegrating

Lucian K. Truscott IV

Brad Parscale? Who’s he? Nothing Trump did in 2016 is working — his campaign is being managed by the coronavirus

Michael Spatz, L, a volunteer with the Alexandria medical reserve corps, helps AshaLetia Henderson through her first positive-case call as a coronavirus contact tracer, where the Alexandria Health Department set up offices for coronavirus contact tracing and investigations at the Oswald Durant Arts Center in Alexandria, VA, on Wednesday, June 24, 2020. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Here’s what contact tracers really do

Julie Appleby - KFF Health News

Contact tracing is a tried-and-true public health tool being applied to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear on November 5, 2019 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Getty Images)

Kentucky to insure "all" Black residents

Igor Derysh

The effort is already underway, Beshear told Salon. State Rep. Attica Scott says it's just a "short-term Band-aid"

White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx, left, and Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci, both wearing face masks listen as President Donald J. Trump participates in a vaccine development event in the Rose Garden at the White House ( Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images))

Trump's futile ventilator donations

Yeganeh Torbati - ProPublica

Trump’s plan to make the U.S. "king of ventilators" may crowd out more urgently needed aid to foreign countries

Chris Wallace and Donald Trump (Noam Galai/WireImage/Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

WATCH: Wallace shuts Trump's lie down

Eric W. Dolan - Raw Story

WATCH: Trump flips out after Fox’s Chris Wallace tells him Joe Biden doesn’t support defunding police

WASHINGTON - MARCH 17: Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) is photographed in his offices in the Canon House office building on March 17, 2009. (Photo by Jeff Hutchens/Getty Images)

Civil rights icon John Lewis dies at 80

Joseph Neese

The Democratic representative announced that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in December

Advertisements featuring Fox News personalities, including Bret Baier, Martha MacCallum, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Sean Hannity, adorn the front of the News Corporation building, (Getty Images/Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Fox misinformation: 253 times in 5 days!

Roger Sollenberger

Laura Ingraham was single-handedly responsible for about a quarter of the misleading claims, averaging 12 per show

A man calling himself Henry Hemp inhales marijuana using a vaporizer pen at HempCon medical marijuana show (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Lifting the veil on Puff Bar

Eli Wolfe - FairWarning

A corporate filing in California has provided a glimpse of those involved with the e-cigarette company

Sky Palma

Whoopi Goldberg and Meghan McCain on The View (ABC)

McCain blames Fauci for COVID resurgence

Sarah K. Burris - Raw Story

McCain says she "turned on him" because "there has to be some responsibility for why we're still in the position"

Top Chef, Love Is Blind and Survivor (Netflix/Bravo/CBS)

Reality TV is not our new reality

Melanie McFarland

The heightened fantasy of reality TV plays different in an era with fewer options, more anxiety, and endless dishes

Deb Fischer (R-NE), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV),Joni Ernst (R-IA),Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS),Marsha Blackburn (R-TN),Martha McSally (R-AZ), and Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP panicked over Dem's fundraising

Alex Henderson - Alternet

“We’re scared to death by what we see,” a GOP strategist told the Wall Street Journal

Protesters barricade the street with bikes and hundreds of people at City Hall, Manhattan. (Ira L. Black/Corbis/Getty Images)

DHS: Masks will break facial recognition

Matthew Rozsa

The revelation originates from a leaked bulletin in a trove of hacked documents from law enforcement agencies

The Painted Bird (IFC Films)

The Painted Bird is a brutal masterpiece

Gary M. Kramer

This 169-minute, black & white adaptation of the controversial novel is unrelenting in its violence and despair

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, US President Donald Trump and police confronting demonstrators as Black Lives Matter supporters demonstrate in Portland, Oregon (Getty Images/Salon)

Trump declares war on America's cities

Amanda Marcotte

Trump sends in the troops and Republicans encourage the spread of coronavirus — war on the cities is now for real

Texas Governor Greg Abbott (Lynda M. Gonzalez-Pool/Getty Images)

Raga Justin

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Ginsburg treated for cancer recurrence

Travis Gettys - Raw Story

Ginsburg says her recent hospitalization for an infection was unrelated to the cancer

Police confront demonstrators as Black Lives Matter supporters demonstrate in Portland, Oregon on July 4, 2020 for the thirty-eighth day in a row at Portland's Justice Center and throughout Portland, with a riot declared about 12.20 am on July 5. CS tear gas and less-lethal weapons were used, and multiple arrests were made. (John Rudoff/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Feds grab Portland protesters into vans

Igor Derysh

Trump is "weaponizing the DHS" as his "own occupying army to provoke violence," Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden says

Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and Governor Brian Kemp (Getty Images/Salon)

Kemp sues Atlanta over mask requirement

Igor Derysh

Kemp sued after Bottoms accused Trump of violating her city’s laws by refusing to wear a mask on his recent visit

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event with citizens positively impacted by law enforcement, in the East Room of the White House on July 13, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Trump's down, but the damage is deep

Heather Digby Parton

Is Trump profoundly incompetent or a major threat to democracy? Those two things don't have to be different

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