Donald Trump's black hole of lies
Media critic Eric Alterman warns that Trump's lies are a black hole which has sucked in the country and news media
Trump needs Dems more than GOP allies
A pandemic aid calendar would have saved the GOP a lot of grief
Barrett more "extreme" on guns than GOP
Barrett's position on felon gun rights is at odds with Trump's Justice Department and Senate Judiciary Republicans
First defeat Trump, then push Biden left
No one has described the current crossroads more astutely than Naomi Klein: "Vote for a more favorable terrain"
Michigan AG accuses Bill Barr of perjury
Dana Nessel said too little attention is being paid to Barr’s words before a House committee
How Lincoln, GOP remade the Court
History shows that political contests over the ideological slant of the Court are nothing new
Barrett has no "firm views" on climate
"We don’t need a climate denier on the Supreme Court."
When fascism and capitalism combine
The tendency of capitalism is toward instability, inequality, and fascism
Experts slam "garbage fire" Biden story
"It's a garbage fire story with obscene numbers of legal holes and flaws," one expert tells Salon
Controversy over Melania tell-all book
"The United States seeks to hold Ms. Wolkoff to her contractual and fiduciary obligations"
Barrett: Roe isn't "super-precedent"
"It's not a case that everyone has accepted and doesn't call for its overruling," Barrett says of Roe
Why the GOP wants to punish Facebook
A questionable New York Post story smearing Joe and Hunter Biden is limited in its social spread, sparking GOP fury
Treating essential workers as expendable
"I'm at work anxious about getting sick, but customers are acting like the pandemic is a thing of the past"
Not even Thanksgiving is safe: CDC
While there's social pressure against ragers, Robert Redfield says even small parties are causing outbreaks
Facebook's soft ban on anti-vax content
In light of flu season and COVID-19 vaccine research, the social media giant draws a soft line in the sand
"Martin Eden" & the individualist artist
Stunning Italian cinema meets the Künstlerroman in Pietro Marcello's new adaptation of Jack London's classic novel
America won't survive second Trump term
“Through the Trump years, institutions have failed again and again to check corruption," David Frum writes
Graham: "Good old days of segregation"
Graham, a vocal Trump supporter, is running against the first Black man to lead the South Carolina Democratic Party
Human arm is "evolving," scientists say
The presence of the median artery in the arm has become more prevalent in the last few centuries, scientists say
Trump defends fake "official" drop boxes
“Screw you!” Rep. Devin Nunes told state officials as he vowed the GOP would maintain the boxes that misled voters
Another Trump cheating scheme implodes
Bill Barr's ludicrous "Unmasking" probe falls flat, but that doesn't mean Republicans are done
Pelosi labels Blitzer a GOP "apologist"
Blitzer pressed Pelosi on why she had not accepted the Trump administration's stimulus proposal amid a need for aid
Yes, Biden should pack the court
Republicans are betting that Democrats don't have the will to fight fire with fire. Biden should prove them wrong
L.A. County's nursing home debacle
Some observers say it’s time to hand over L.A. County’s oversight of its nursing homes to California