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A television monitor on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange headlines the rate decision of the Federal Reserve, Wednesday, July 31, 2019. The Federal Reserve is cutting its key interest rate for the first time in a decade to try to counter threats ranging from uncertainties caused by President Donald Trump's trade wars to chronically low inflation and a dim global outlook. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

The post-coronavirus global economy

Marshall Auerback - Independent Media Institute

Policymakers have a tricky task ahead of them

Andrew Cuomo and Donald Trump (AP Photo/Salon)

Cuomo vs. Trump: Two guys from Queens

Jim Sleeper

The president and New York's governor are locked in a bad long-term relationship. But they need each other badly

President Donald Trump takes questions during press briefing with the coronavirus task force, at the White House, Thursday, March 19, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Media still letting Trump set the agenda

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch

White House reporters have gotten more skeptical — but they're still playing Trump's clown-show way too straight

Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., talks to supporters as he gives his acceptance speech after winning re-election in Winston-Salem, N.C., Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016 (AP Photo/Nell Redmond) (AP)

Was senator involved in insider trading?

Robert Faturechi, Derek Willis - ProPublica

Richard Burr’s selloff came around the time he was receiving daily briefings on the health threat

Sen. James Inhofe (Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

GOP's COVID-19 stock selloff scandal

Bob Brigham - Raw Story

Multiple GOP senators revealed in public filings that they had sold large stock holdings after private briefings

Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

"Morally bankrupt"

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams

Trump blasted for multibillion-dollar Big Oil bailout

Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, speaks at a news conference (Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images)

GOPer dismisses COVID-19 as "beer virus"

Matthew Rozsa

"This beer virus I call it — they call it a coronavirus, I call it a beer virus — how do you like that?"

Alison Pill in "Devs" (FX)

These days "Devs" feels a lot more human

Melanie McFarland

Salon talks to "Devs" stars Alison Pill, Nick Offerman, and Sonoya Mizuno about the show's meaning

Still life of a face mask on red background (Getty Images)

How scammers are exploiting COVID-19

Stacey Wood, Yaniv Hanoch, Marian Liu, David Hengerer

Every epidemic brings with it accompanying grifts. Here’s how scammers think

Grocery stores were packed with big crowds and long lines as latest spike of COVID-19 cases prompted panic buying across the country on March 12, 2020 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images)

What's on your disaster grocery list?

Melanie McFarland

You're going to need more than pasta and toilet paper. Here's a strategic list of what to buy in a crisis

Drew Pinsky in "Final Kill" (Cinedigm)

Dr. Drew's fears about porn & COVID-19

Alli Joseph

The addiction medicine therapist appeared on "Salon Talks" to discuss singing, his career, and problems youth face

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Texas senator defends Trump's racism

Matthew Rozsa

"I think China is to blame because (of) the culture where people eat bats, and snakes and dogs"

Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI) speaks at the start of a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on the government's response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak on March 5, 2020 in Washington, DC. COVID-19 has taken hold in the United States and national and local governments are rushing to contain the virus and to find a cure. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

GOP senator downplays coronavirus risk

Matthew Rozsa

"We don't shut down our economy because tens of thousands of people die on the highways"

Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, John Cornyn, and Kellyanne Conway (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

Trump's new virus tactic: Full-on racism

Amanda Marcotte

No longer able to write pandemic off as a "hoax," Trump and his supporters exploit crisis in ugliest possible way

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Biden (AP Photo/Salon)

Gabbard endorses Biden as she drops out

Matthew Rozsa

Biden "has a good heart" and is "motivated by his love for our country and the American people," Gabbard says

President Donald Trump speaks as he visits a new section of the border wall with Mexico in Calexico, CA, April 5, 2019. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump visa policy threatens food supply

Igor Derysh

“This threatens our ability to put food on Americans’ tables," the American Farm Bureau says

(Getty/Sean Gallup)

Jared forms "shadow" COVID-19 task force

Igor Derysh

"The federal government is not designed to solve all our problems," Kushner says in a rare interview

(Getty/Spencer Platt)

Kushner's link to COVID-19 testing site

Alex Henderson - Alternet

“There was once a direct connection between Jared Kushner and Oscar"

Fox's coronavirus hypocrisy, exposed

Fox's coronavirus hypocrisy, exposed

Alex Henderson - Alternet

Of all the shameful things that Fox News has done over the years, its most blatantly irresponsible could be this

Green stethoscope forming a dollar sign with the tube ( Atomic Imagery/Getty Images)

Coronavirus as an index of inequality

Chauncey DeVega

Author of "Dying of Whiteness": Trump's response has been "exactly wrong" for America, but his base doesn't care

FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2016 file photo, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. For months Donald Trump has dominated the political scene like no other. But listen to endangered Senate Republicans as they campaign for re-election and you might not even know he exists.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

No big deal if coronavirus kills

Matthew Chapman - Raw Story

“Getting coronavirus is not a death sentence except for maybe no more than 3.4 percent of our population"

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden accompanied by Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C. speaks at a primary night election rally in Columbia, S.C., Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Who wants a revolution? Not the media

Julie Hollar - FAIR

Media assures us that Biden's victory means the voters are "centrist." Actual data offers a different picture

Workers stand watch as containers are loaded into a cargo ship at Qingdao Port in Qingdao in east China's Shandong province, Thursday, April 13, 2017. China's export growth accelerated in March in a positive sign for global demand, though import growth cooled. (Chinatopix via AP) (Chinatopix via AP)

COVID-19 is a globalization shock

Andrés Ortega - The Globalist

The coronavirus crisis has become the third great globalization shock of this still relatively new century

President Donald Trump listens to a question during press briefing with the coronavirus task force, at the White House, Wednesday, March 18, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Is Trump delusional or a gaslighter?

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch

Either Trump inhabits an alternate reality or he wants his fans to ignore the facts. Either way, call him out

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