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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) questions U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing on the State Department's 2021 budget in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on July 30, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Jim Lo Scalzo-Pool/Getty Images)

Graham asks why Blake "didn't yield"

Roger Sollenberger

"It's dangerous being a cop," Graham said when asked about racial justice protesters

An empty court during the 2020 NBA Playoffs (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

NBA sits out games to protest shooting

Daniel Kreps - Rolling Stone

“We’re tired of the killings and the injustice,” guard George Hill says following Kenosha, Wisconsin shooting

Born on July 17, 1819, Eunice Newton Foote was an amateur scientist and a women's rights campaigner who was friends with American suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton.  Foote's experiments with atmospheric gases and her insights about past climate were overlooked for more than a century. (Drawing by Carlyn Iverson/NOAA/Climate.gov)

The suffragette-scientist

Dawn Starin

Not until 2011 was Foote's 19th-century scientific contribution realized and pieced together by historians

Tituss Burgess in "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy versus the Reverend" (Netflix)

"Let's get this man out of office"

Mary Elizabeth Williams

The Emmy nominee appeared on "Salon Talks" to discuss "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt," Biden & discovering "Free Bird"

A patient infected by the covid-19 caused by the novel coronavirus receives treatment at the intensive care unit of a hospital in the southwestern Tunisian town of Gabes on August 26, 2020, as cases of infection surge there. (FETHI BELAID/AFP via Getty Images)

Coronavirus reinfection is possible

Matthew Rozsa

Experts tell Salon that this reveals we still have a lot to learn about COVID-19 and the human immune system

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows speaks to the press in Statuary Hall at the Capitol on August 22, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Gabriella Demczuk/Getty Images)

Meadows calls Hatch Act worries "hoopla"

Roger Sollenberger

Numerous legal experts allege that administration officials have violated the Hatch Act during the GOP convention

In this screenshot from the RNC’s livestream of the 2020 Republican National Convention, anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson addresses the virtual convention on August 25, 2020. (Courtesy of the Committee on Arrangements for the 2020 Republican National Committee via Getty Images)

RNC speaker against votes for women

Amanda Marcotte

Abby Johnson's views on birth control and voting rights make clear she's driven by misogyny, not respect for "life"

Protesters march near the Minneapolis 1st Police precinct during a demonstration against police brutality and racism on August 24, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. - It was the second day of demonstrations in Kenosha after video circulated Sunday showing the shooting of Jacob Blake -- multiple times, in the back, as he tried to get in his car, with his three children watching. (KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images)

Two killed in Jacob Blake protest

Igor Derysh

Video shows a white man with a long gun running from a group alleging he shot someone before more shots ring out

First Lady Melania Trump speaks during the Republican National Convention filmed in the Rose Garden at the White House on Tuesday, Aug 25, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Fact-checking night two of the RNC

Igor Derysh

Some of the GOP's invitees believe in anti-semitic conspiracies — and women should defer voting rights to husbands

Donald Trump Jr. pre-records his address to the Republican National Convention at the Mellon Auditorium on August 24, 2020 in Washington, DC. The novel coronavirus pandemic has forced the Republican Party to move away from an in-person convention to a televised format, similar to the Democratic Party's convention a week earlier. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

2020 RNC: Celebration of the Trump cult

Heather Digby Parton

Fear-mongering and corruption are nothing new in Republican politics. But Donald Trump has gone far beyond that

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Vice President Mike Pence, Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, and the crown of Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Last call for the 25th Amendment

Kirk Swearingen

Trump's cabinet members have one last chance to save the republic and redeem themselves. Of course they won't

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks while William Bryan (L), head of science and technology at the Department of Homeland Security listens during the daily briefing of the coronavirus task force at the White House on April 23, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Trump compromises the FDA

Terry H. Schwadron - DCReport

Now he has compromised the Food and Drug Administration

One America News Network | Food & Drug Administration (Graphics collage by Salon/WiikiCommons/One America News Network)

Former OANN reporter gets FDA post

Roger Sollenberger

Former reporter for right-wing network has no known health expertise, and has made inaccurate coronavirus claims

Nikki Haley and Colin Powell (Getty/Mario Tama/Spencer Platt)

Nikki Haley failed to prover her point

Cody Fenwick - Alternet

“America is not a racist country. This is personal for me," said ex-UN Ambassador Nikki Haley

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo listens as US President Donald Trump speaks about Syria in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House in Washington, DC, October 23, 2019. - President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday the United States would be lifting sanctions on Turkey, hailing the success of a ceasefire along its border with Syria."Earlier this morning, the government of Turkey informed my administration that they would be stopping combat and their offensive in Syria and making the ceasefire permanent," he said in a televised address from the White House. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Pompeo slammed for Jerusalem RNC address

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams

Critics accused the secretary of state of "using Judaism as a political prop"

Balloons fall on the final session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, July 21, 2016. (Reuters/Aaron P. Bernstein)

RNC speaker booted

Cody Fenwick - Alternet

Republicans have frequently attacked Democrats in recent years for supposed cases anti-Semitism

Morning Joe (MSNBC)

"Cranks and misfits" on parade at RNC

Travis Gettys - Raw Story

“Ladies and gentlemen, your 2020 Republican National Convention, wow”

Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Steve Daines has a China syndrome

Igor Derysh

Montana Republican bills himself as China foe; has spent years building cozy relationships with Chinese officials

Stranger Things (Netflix)

Stop sexualizing "Stranger Things" kids

Zack Sharf - Indiewire

The actress calls the sexualization of young actors "a cultural issue" that extends far beyond her teenage costars

(Getty/Robyn)

Joe Exotic series to star Kate McKinnon

Joe Otterson - Variety

Have we reached "Tiger King" saturation yet?

Justin Townes Earle at Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival 2019 (Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival)

Earle died from "probable drug overdose"

Jon Freeman - Rolling Stone

Songwriter was found dead in his Nashville apartment during a wellness check, according to a NPD spokesperson

Students of economics and business studies sit in a lecture hall, observing the distance rule, and wait for the exam to begin (Getty Images)

A no-win situation for US colleges

Matthew Rozsa

Colleges cannot afford to convert entirely to remote learning, but students are put at risk by going on campus

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing at the White House August 13, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump spoke on a range of topics including his announcement earlier in the day of a new peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

GOP trails Dems in convention ratings

Sarah K Burris - Raw Story

Night one of the GOP convention scored 15.8 million viewers — a significant decline from Trump’s 2016 ratings

Danny McBride and Cassidy Freeman in "The Righteous Gemstones" | Photo of Jerry Falwell Jr. from his Instagram (Photo illustration by Salon/HBO/Instagram)

What's lost amid holy-rolling hypocrisy

Ashlie D. Stevens

While salacious details and cover-ups make for good television, it goes against everything evangelicals preach

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