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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media during a meeting with Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis in the Oval Office of the White House January 7, 2020 in Washington, DC. Prime Minister Mitsotakis is expected to discuss various issues with President Trump, including Greece’s relations with Turkey. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Trump whines he didn't win Nobel Prize

Igor Derysh

Trump wants credit for Ethiopia's peace deal, but Ethiopian officials say the president had nothing to do with it

1917 (Universal Pictures)

"1917" is irresponsibly nationalistic

Matthew Rozsa

The film has amazing acting and technical achievements, but its simplistic storytelling falls in line with Trumpism

Woman eating pizza and drinking wine in front of the refrigerator during the night (Getty Images)

The psychology behind better habits

Ashlie D. Stevens

Science suggests that deprivation is not the way to achieve your New Year goals

Bombay Bicycle Club (Josh Shinner)

Bombay Bicycle Club's dramatic return

Kenneth Womack

On "Everything Else Has Gone Wrong," Bombay Bicycle Club challenges us to feel something good for a change

(Getty/urbazon)

FDA under scrutiny

Hillel Aron - FairWarning

The Food and Drug Administration’s problem-plagued efforts to inspect overseas plants is under growing scrutiny.

Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

Trump makes stuff up; media plays along

Dan Froomkin

Trump's dubious claim that Soleimani planned "to blow up our embassy" was swallowed whole by way too many pros

US President Donald Trump and Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)

Did Trump kill Soleimani to appease GOP?

Igor Derysh

Trump reportedly said that "he was under pressure to deal with Gen. Soleimani from GOP senators" key to his trial

Stormy Daniels; Donald Trump;  Karen McDougal (AP/Matt Sayles/Evan Vucci/Getty/Dimitrios Kambouris)

Details about hush money scheme revealed

Tom Boggioni - Raw Story

Trump was actively involved in paying off a woman with whom he allegedly had an affair, Wall Street Journal reports

Dems: Stop withholding Puerto Rico funds

Dems: Stop withholding Puerto Rico funds

Julia Conley - Common Dreams

"Boricuas deserve so much better than this"

(Getty/Salon)

Trump's trade war costs us — not China

Cody Fenwick - Alternet

New working papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research reveal the sweeping impacts of Trump's trade war

E. Jean Carroll, a New York-based advice columnist, claims Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a dressing room at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s. Trump denies knowing Carroll. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Judge slams Trump's bid to toss lawsuit

Igor Derysh

"There is not even a tweet, much less an affidavit by Trump in support of his motion," the judge said

(AP Photo/David Goldman)

DOJ Hillary probe comes up empty: report

Igor Derysh

"As time went on, a lot of people just forgot about it,” one senior DOJ official says

Quentin Tarantino / The Golden Girls (Jim Smeal/Ron Galella Collection/Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Tarantino: "Golden Girls" helped career

Matthew Rozsa

Tarantino played an Elvis impersonator in a "Golden Girls" episode, and the residuals really paid off

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, and President Donald Trump whisper during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Tuesday, July 16, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon/Salon)

Pompeo contradicts Trump on Soleimani

Igor Derysh

"We don't know precisely when, and we don't know precisely where, but it was real," Pompeo tells Fox News

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (Drew Angerer/Alex Edelman/Getty Images/Salon)

An impeachment trial is finally coming

Heather Digby Parton

Blood in the water: McConnell will allow a vote on witnesses, and vulnerable Republicans are under pressure

US Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents take part in a safety drill in the Anapra area in Sunland Park, New Mexico, United States on January 31, 2019. (Getty/Herika Martinez)

"We were all told to do this"

Julia Conley - Common Dreams

"Ah, so he was just doing his job? Where have we heard that defense before?"

African-American men voting in a state election in the south during reconstruction in an 1867 illustration from Harper's Weekly. That year in the reconstruction states 703,000 Blacks and 627,000 Whites voted. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

What to know about Reconstruction

Tiffany Mitchell Patterson - The Conversation

Many African Americans made education a high priority after the Civil War

Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden (Getty images/Salon)

Polls show Bernie top threat to Biden

Igor Derysh

Biden campaign “increasingly views Sanders as his most formidable opponent in Iowa and beyond,” says Politico

Oregon Senator Wayne Morse engages in a debate over President Johnson's Vietnam policy with General Maxwell Taylor, former Ambassador to Vietnam, who is appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, February 17th, 1966. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

Too many Democrats are still pro-war

Norman Solomon

Not enough Senate Democrats remember Wayne Morse, a defender of peace who stood up early against the Vietnam War

(AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

IRS tried to crack down on tax loophole

Peter Elkind - ProPublica

The tax agency, Justice Department and Congress have all taken aim at a deduction exploited by wealthy investors

Traffic on the northbound and the southbound lanes of the Interstate 405 freeway near Los Angeles International Aiprort (Getty/Kevork Djansezian)

U.S. emissions dipped in 2019

Nathanael Johnson - Grist

Coal has been in a slow-motion death spiral over the past ten years

Dan Quayle and George H.W. Bush at the 1988 Republican National Convention. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

A report card on the American Project

Andrew Bacevich - TomDispatch.com

The “Revolution of ’89” reassessed

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

How Facebook misunderstands free speech

Keith A. Spencer

Freedom of speech doesn't matter much if only the wealthy and corporations can afford to proselytize

Uber vehicles are lined up at the  ride-hail passenger pickup lot at an airport (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Uber is trying to trick its drivers

Nicole Karlis

A seemingly benign change in how the Uber app works in California is actually a plot to dodge regulation

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