Help keep Salon independent

Latest (page 1849)

Elizabeth Warren and Ronna McDaniel (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Payday lenders brag they bought clout

Igor Derysh

Payday lending bigwig bundles big money for Trump, brags of access to RNC head: "Ronna, I need help on something"

Jack Dorsey (AP/Mary Altaffer/Richard Drew)

Twitter will ban political ads

Nicole Karlis

The announcement appears counterposed to Facebook's piecemeal policy to let politicians spread misinformation

Justin Trudeau, Julianne Hough, Jimmy Fallon, and Luann de Lesseps in blackface costumes. (West Point Grey Academy/Pacific Coast News/Devone Byrd/NBC/Saturday Night Live/Instagram/@COUNTESSLUANN/Salon)

Just say no to blackface this Halloween

D. Watkins

Yes, you can still dress up as your favorite black hero or character, but there's a way to do it – without racism

Aerial view of the Bangkok city skyline and the Chao Phraya River, Thailand. (Getty Images/Deejpilot)

These cities will drown as the seas rise

Nicole Karlis

2% of Earth's human population lives on land that may be submerged within 31 years

From the October 29, 2019, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight, with guest Dave Rubin. (Fox News)

Carlson blames fires on “woke” culture

Matthew Rozsa

“Everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” YouTube personality Dave Rubin told Carlson

Debbie Reynolds, Kimberly J. Brown, Emily Roeske, and Joey Zimmerman in Halloweentown (1998) (ABC/Disney)

Hocus Pocus has nothing on Halloweentown

Ashlie D. Stevens

Enduring and with less problematic messaging, this Debbie Reynolds movie should become traditional holiday viewing

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg poses for a photograph during an inteview with AFP onboard the Malizia II sailing yacht at the Mayflower Marina in Plymouth, southwest England, on August 13, 2019 ahead of her journey across the Atlantic to New York where she will attend the UN Climate Action Summit next month. (BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images/Salon)

Thunberg declines award for activism

Matthew Rozsa

“What we need is for our rulers and politicians to listen to the research,” Thunberg added in a statement

U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili/Alex Wong/Getty Images/Salon)

NSC official appears to contradict Perry

Igor Derysh

Vindman claimed that Perry was at a meeting where the Biden probe was discussed, which Perry has repeatedly denied

Still from the Netflix documentary "Little Miss Sumo" (Netflix)

New doc defies sexism in sumo wrestling

Ashlie D. Stevens

The tradition of sumo wrestling is over a thousand years old and is long overdue for change when it comes to women

Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for his confirmation hearing to be the new U.S. ambassador to Russia, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. President Donald Trump's nominee faced questions about Russian election interference and the ouster of the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine at his Senate confirmation hearing. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Russia ambassador breaks with Trump

Shira Tarlo

Soliciting probes into a domestic political rival is "not in accord with our values," John Sullivan said

TV personality Alex Trebek attends the screening of 'The Bridge on The River Kwai' during the 2017 TCM Classic Film Festival on April 7, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for TCM)

Trebek opens up about dying of cancer

Matthew Rozsa

Trebek said that pancreatic cancer is "the only major cancer with a five-year survival rate in the single digits"

White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney (AP Photo/Evan Vucci/Twitter)

Mulvaney learned of ISIS raid from tweet

Igor Derysh

Obama's chief of staff was front and center during the Osama bin Laden raid, but Mulvaney was sitting at home

Donald Trump (Getty Images)

Is Trump too dumb? That won't work

Amanda Marcotte

Trump doesn't need to be a stable genius to get away with this stuff. He has the whole Republican Party behind him

Rep. Ilhan Omar and Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite/Elise Amendola)

Omar accused of being cozy with dictator

Matthew Rozsa

The NBA player claimed that Omar prioritized the interests of Turkey’s Recep Erdoğan over “the American people”

Former National security adviser John Bolton walks up to the podium to begin speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, Monday, Sept. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

John Bolton warned of Giuliani: reports

Shira Tarlo

Bolton warned that Giuliani's influence over Trump's views on Ukraine "could be an obstacle," the official will say

U.S. Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks as Chairman of House Intelligence Committee Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) listens during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol October 15, 2019 in Washington, DC. Pelosi said she is holding off on a full House vote to authorize an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Dems prepare to formalize Trump inquiry

Shira Tarlo

House Democrats are expected to vote Thursday on a resolution establishing the procedures of the impeachment probe

Laura Ingraham (Fox News)

MSNBC host swears at Laura Ingraham

Sarah K Burris - Raw Story

“Except those people aren’t chickensh*t like the three of you,” Wallace said of the recent panel on Ingraham's show

Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA) (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Hill reporter worked for GOP: report

Igor Derysh

Shortly before Hill’s resignation, Jennifer Van Laar posted a tweet urging followers to “help us flip" Hill's seat

National Security Council Director for European Affairs Alexander Vindman arrives for a closed-door deposition at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on October 29, 2019. - A White House official plans to tell Congress Tuesday that he witnessed efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate President Donald Trump's rival Joe Biden, and that he reported it as a national security risk. Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman will be the first White House official to testify to the House impeachment inquiry that Trump and allied diplomats improperly pressured the Ukraine government to open investigations designed to help Trump politically. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

GOPers admit testimony was "damaging"

Bob Brigham - Raw Story

“The GOP reaction to Vindman comes as the party faces frontal attacks on two of its major talking points"

George Papadopoulos (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Papadopoulos to run for Hill's seat

Bob Brigham - Raw Story

Papadopoulos served 12 days in a federal prison after he pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI

John F Kennedy, George McGovern, John Kerry, and Alexander Vindman (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

GOP smears a combat vet, like usual

Heather Digby Parton

Republicans claim to "support the troops." Going back to JFK, McGovern and John Kerry, their true record is ugly

Donald Trump with transcripts of his phone call with the President of Ukraine (AP Photo/The White House/Salon)

Transcript "omitted" key words: report

Cody Fenwick - Alternet

The incomplete transcript itself is damning evidence of President Donald Trump’s misconduct

A Cal Fire firefighter monitors the Kincaide Fire as it burns a hillside on October 24, 2019 in Geyserville, California. Fueled by high winds, the Kincaide Fire has burned over 7,000 acres in a matter of hours and has prompted evacuations in the Geyserville area. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images))

Farmworkers face health risks in fires

Anna Maria Barry-Jester - KFF Health News

As wildfires of this strength and intensity grow more frequent, so do concerns for field workers

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson and  Rep. Marsha Blackburn (Alex Wong/Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

GOP senators: Enmeshed in Trump's crimes

Sophia Tesfaye

Ron Johnson and Marsha Blackburn are tied to Russian money and Trump's conspiracy theories. They're not alone

« Previous
Page: 1849
Next »