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Corey Lewandowski and Donald Trump (AP Photo/Susan Walsh/Jacquelyn Martin)

Corey Lewandowski forgoes Senate run

Matthew Rozsa

“While taking on a career politician from the Washington swamp is a tall order, I am certain I would have won"

Donald Trump golfing (Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)

Trump spent 1 out of 5 days at golf club

Shira Tarlo

Over the course of his presidency, Trump has spent 252 days at one of his golf clubs

Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) speaks during a press conference at the 9/11 Tribute Museum in Lower Manhattan on October 29, 2019 in New York City. Gabbard called for the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI declassify and release 9/11 investigative documents that she claims would implicate the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the 2001 terrorist attacks. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Gabbard: Impeachment will help Trump win

Matthew Rozsa

Tulsi Gabbard voted "present" when Trump was impeached in the House of Representatives earlier this month

Greta Thunberg, the climate strike, and Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

2020s: The "OK Boomer" Decade?

Amanda Marcotte

Young people are starting to wake up to how much their elders screwed them over — and they will fight back

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Ivanka Trump, senior advisor to the president of the United States and daughter of President Donald Trump (MUSTAFA ABUMUNES/AFP via Getty Images)

State probed who "liked" Clinton's tweet

Igor Derysh

"Irate" State Department officials ordered a weeks-long probe to find the culprit "liker"

Outraged Iraqi protesters storm the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, protesting Washington's attacks on armed battalions belong to Iranian-backed Hashd al-Shaabi forces on December 31, 2019. At least 25 people were killed in weekend U.S. airstrikes on positions of Kataib Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed militia group, in Iraq and Syria. Hundreds of Iraqi protesters gathered early Tuesday near the embassy to show their anger at the U.S. move. (Photo by (Murtadha Sudani/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

US embassy compound in Baghdad besieged

Shira Tarlo

The protests follow U.S. airstrikes, which killed 24 members of an Iranian-backed militia over the weekend

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Collins "open" to impeachment witnesses

Shira Tarlo

Collins, who is up for re-election in 2020, has emerged as a possible swing vote in the Senate impeachment trial

Democratic presidential candidates South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and former Vice President Joe Biden (Scott Olson/Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Pete Buttigieg takes aim at Joe Biden

Igor Derysh

Buttigieg told the Associated Press that he “would not have wanted to see” his son serving on the Burisma board

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Donald Trump (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images)

How to spell out Donald J. Trump?

Alon Ben-Meir - The Globalist

Trump has brought shame and dishonor to the most prestigious office in the world — the U.S. Presidency.

A sign is displayed at an AT&T retail store (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

AT&T outsources jobs after $3B tax cut

Igor Derysh

After giving workers $1,000 bonuses, AT&T is allegedly forcing some to train their own foreign replacements

(Photo Courtesy of The Nation)

Remembering Bill Greider

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams

Longtime correspondent for The Nation and Rolling Stone, who died Christmas Day, spoke truth to power for decades

FILE -- In this Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014 file photo released by the U.S. Air Force, a U.S. Navy F-18E Super Hornet fighter jet receives fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker over northern Iraq. A refueling accident involving a similar model of jet, the F/A-18D, resulted in the tragic death of six U.S. Marines. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Shawn Nickel, File) (AP)

Preventable disaster killed six Marines

Robert Faturechi, Megan Rose, T. Christian Miller - ProPublica

When a training exercise ended in death, leadership blamed the very men they had neglected

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Michael Bloomberg (AP/Rebecca Blackwell)

Bloomberg revs up Texas campaign

Alex Samuels, Patrick Svitek

Bloomberg is staffing up in Texas and planning to open a Houston headquarters and 16 field offices.

New York Cty Mayor Bill De Blasio visits the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights and the Chabad Lubavitch Headquarters to speak on recent anti-semitic attacks in the New York City area, while Rudy Giuliani complains about his handling of the situation. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik/mpi43/MediaPunch /IPX)

Rudy claims de Blasio exploited tragedy

Matthew Rozsa

The guy who spread "anti-Semitic conspiracy theories over cocktails can take a seat," de Blasio says in response

Left: Steve and Tina; Right: Andra and Ona (Photos courtesy of the author)

Life in the house of alternative facts

Ona Gritz

Before we all lived in a country where truth doesn't matter, there was no shared objective reality in my family

Greta Thunberg on December 13, 2019 in Turin, Italy. The 16-year-old environmental activist Greta Thunberg, just been elected Time Magazine's Person of the Year, on her way back from Madrid (where COP25 is happening) to Stockholm decided to partecipate to 50th Friday For Future in Turin. (Mauro Ujetto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Activism lifted Greta from depression

Matthew Rozsa

Greta previously did not eat or talk to people because of her depression, her father reveals in a new interview

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Employees working on an assembly line at an Auto Plant (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Auto plants close, opioids deaths rise

Nicole Karlis

Researchers find a shockingly strong link between economic opportunity and opioid use

Ivanka Trump (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Ivanka dodges family separation question

Matthew Rozsa

CBS anchor Margaret Brennan was also criticized for what many perceived as a "softball" interview of Trump

Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Kristen Wiig, and Ellie Kemper in "Bridesmaids" (2011) (Universal Pictures)

Forget superheroes, "Bridesmaids" ruled

Mary Elizabeth Williams

The raunchy comedy was groundbreaking for the early 2010s & paved the way for "Booksmart," "Pitch Perfect" and more

Strike against Spectrum (Robert Hennelly)

1,800 remain out of work at NY1 parent

Bob Hennelly - The Chief-Leader

Council threatens Charter’s franchise as local 3 strike goes 1,000 days

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Rose Tico in "The Rise of Skywalker" (Walt Disney Studios)

Star Wars writer: Why Rose was sidelined

Matthew Rozsa

The reduction of Kelly Marie Tran's part wasn't deliberate, but it does show Disney didn't care enough to fix it

(Getty/Salon)

Fox News hits highest ratings in history

Igor Derysh

Fox News finished 2019 with the highest viewership of any cable network for the fourth consecutive year

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) greets people during a campaign event at NOAH's Event Venue on December 30, 2019 in West Des Moines, Iowa. The 2020 Iowa Democratic caucuses will take place on February 3, 2020, making it the first nominating contest for the Democratic Party in choosing their presidential candidate to face Donald Trump in the 2020 election. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Bernie Sanders releases medical records

Shira Tarlo

"He has the mental and physical stamina to fully undertake the rigors of the presidency," his cardiologist says

US Senator Lindsey Graham and Trump Attorney Rudy Giuliani (Michael Brochstein / Echoes Wire / Barcroft Media/Saul Martinez/Getty Images/Salon)

Graham suspicious of Giuliani's "info"

Shira Tarlo

"I'm very suspicious of what the Russians are up to all over the world," the senator says

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