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Ron DeSantis, Donald Trump and Greg Abbott (Getty Images/Salon)

Will virus doom GOP in the Sun Belt?

Heather Digby Parton

Cases are exploding in Arizona, Texas and Florida — and that's driving Trump and the GOP toward electoral disaster

Police officers pepper spray a woman next to the Colorado State Capitol as protests against the death of George Floyd continue (Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

Maintaining capitalist order with racism

Richard D. Wolff - Independent Media Institute

U.S. capitalism solved its instability problem by making cyclical downturns afflict a minority of the working class

Cornel West | BLM Protest (Getty Images/Salon)

Cornel West: We need radical democracy

Chauncey DeVega

Cornel West talks about the bigger paradigm shift we still need — away from military spending and neoliberalism

(Getty/Nicholas Kamm)

Trump revives tyrannical playbook

Stephen M. Underhill - The Conversation

Hoover and Trump's similarities are troubling as the U.S. faces historic challenges to its democracy

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General view of voters during Tuesdays Kentucky primary election on June 23, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky. The Kentucky Exposition Center is the only polling location for Tuesday's Kentucky primary in Jefferson County, home to Louisville and 767,000 residents. (Brett Carlsen/Getty Images)

Kentucky: "The people want to vote"

Erin Keane

A "disaster" predicted in Louisville didn't materialize. That doesn't mean disenfranchisement isn't happening

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Suraj Patel and Jamaal Bowman (Getty Images/Suraj Patel for Congress/Salon)

This week's primaries bode well for GND

Zoya Teirstein - Grist

Climate advocates had hoped 2020 would be the year climate change took center stage politically

U.S. President Donald Trump (Getty Images)

White House vows to veto D.C. statehood

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams

"D.C. will never be a state"

Sean Hannity interviews Donald Trump (Fox News)

Trump foiled by Hannity softball

Bob Brigham - Raw Story

Watch: President Donald Trump foiled by softball question from Sean Hannity during Fox News interview

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West Virginia Governor Jim Justice (Saul Loeb/Getty ImagesWest Virginia Governor Jim Justice)

WV governor ousts top health official

Igor Derysh

“We had overstated the amount of active cases we have," Gov. Jim Justice claimed, without any explanation

1,500 mile-long dust plume hits the US

Nicole Karlis

A huge dust plume from the Sahara will cloak parts of the US this week — and could have adverse health effects

Lindsey Graham | Data Encryption (Getty Images/Salon)

The GOP wants to make encryption useless

Matthew Rozsa

The bill "[mis]understands how encryption works. You can't create a backdoor just for 'good guys,'" one expert says

Jordan Peele in "The Twilight Zone" (CBS All Access)

Making "The Twilight Zone" great again

Melanie McFarland

The second season of Jordan Peele's "Twilight Zone" reboot remains uneven, but one episode speaks to our moment

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Coronavirus economic assistance checks that were sent to citizens across the country (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

What the next stimulus will look like

Matthew Rozsa

President Trump says he plans on supporting another stimulus bill that could include checks to citizens

Dawn light shining on the tidepools (Getty Images)

How life emerged from lifelessness

Matthew Rozsa

The research provides a plausible explanation for how proteins could form before cells

Jenny Slate as Missy Foreman-Greenwald in "Big Mouth" (Netflix)

Slate exits "Big Mouth" for Black actor

Joe Otterson - Variety

Slate stated that voicing the biracial character was "engaging in an act of erasure of Black people"

Donald Trump | A statue of Confederate States President Jefferson Davis lies on the street after protesters pulled it down in Richmond, Virginia, on June 10, 2020 (Getty Images/Salon)

Why does Trump care about the statues?

Amanda Marcotte

Despite the tear gas and Tulsa, Trump still believes he can win by inciting cops to crack protesters' skulls

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White House Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Conway defends Trump over racist term

Roger Sollenberger

In March, Conway called the racist term “hurtful” and “wrong,” pointing out she herself was “married to an Asian"

Carly Fiorina (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Carly Fiorina plans to vote for Biden

Matthew Chapman - Raw Story

"We need humility and empathy everywhere in public life right now, and I think character counts"

Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, Osama Bin Laden, and aliens (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

What's Trump up to on YouTube? (Aliens?)

Alice Wilder - ProPublica

Mostly stymied from holding his mass rallies, Trump is turning to a different part of the internet

U.S. President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr speak in the Oval Office before signing an executive order related to regulating social media (Doug MIlls-Pool/Getty Images)

Democrats mull impeaching William Barr

Igor Derysh

"I think the weight of the evidence and of what's happened leads to that conclusion," Jerry Nadler says

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Donald Trump | Mail-in-Voting ballot (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

America is exceptional in the wrong ways

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed what has long been true

Donald Trump and Joe Biden (AP Photo/Salon)

No victory dance: Trump's not done yet

Chauncey DeVega

Yeah, Trump seems like a beaten man. But have we learned nothing? Declaring victory now means certain defeat

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

Texas Republican gov. reverses course

Patrick Svitek - The Texas Tribune

Gov. Greg Abbott recommends Texans stay home as coronavirus cases surge

Wesley Lowery in an appearance on CBS News' "Face the Nation." (Screenshot)

Media "neutrality": A fake white guy

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch

Mainstream media's quest for "neutrality" and "objectivity" has always been racially coded. Finally we can see that

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