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Donald Trump watching democracy burn (Getty Images/Salon)

Trump's hold on MAGA grows tighter

Chauncey DeVega

"There is virtually nothing Trump can do for the Republican base to not support him"

Yvie Oddly, Jinkx Monsoon, The Vivienne, and Jaida Essence Hall in the "Total Ru-quest Live" episode of "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars" (World of Wonder/Paramount+)

What's dragging queens down

Zina Kumok

Between makeup, hair and costumes, it’s not uncommon for performers to barely break even

A satellite image from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Milton on Tuesday October 08, 2024. (NOAA NESDIS STAR GOES-East/GEOCOLOR)

FEMA head: When is hurricane season?

Alex Galbraith

David Richardson left staff shaking their heads when he appeared unaware that hurricane season had started

President Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet in the Oval Office, Feb. 28, 2025. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump not informed of attack on Russia

Cheyenne McNeill

Ukrainian officials say the attack took more than a year to plan, but the Trump administration was kept in the dark

In this handout photo released by the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, suspect Sigfredo Ceja Alvarez poses for a booking photo on June 2, 2025 in San Antonio, Texas. He was booked on suspicion of murder of Jonathan Joss, a voice actor on the television show "King of the Hill". (Photo by Bexar County Sheriff’s Office/Getty Images)

"King of the Hill" star dies at 59

Cheyenne McNeill, Alex Galbraith

Joss, known for voicing John Redcorn on "King of the Hill," was shot in front of his San Antonio home on Sunday

People hold signs as they protest outside of the offices of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP on March 25, 2025 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Trump-friendly law firms lose clients

Cheyenne McNeill

Clients are shifting business to law firms that refused to capitulate to the president

(L to R) Mia Threapleton as Liesl, Benicio Del Toro as Zsa-Zsa Korda and Michael Cera as Bjorn in director Wes Anderson's "The Phoenician Scheme" (Courtesy of TPS Productions/Focus Features)

Wes Anderson's perfection leaves us cold

Coleman Spilde

Anderson's third film in five years is too precise to sink into. Maybe that's by design

Tomatoes on a tablecloth (Catherine Falls Commercial/ Getty Images )

Two words: Tomato. Butter

Ashlie D. Stevens

Tomato butter is sweet, spiced and sun-drunk — a fleeting summer thrill in a jar

Ana de Armas at the premiere of "Ballerina" (Olga Gasnier / Getty Images )

Ana de Armas reveals her ideal last meal

Joy Saha

The actor also revealed the one thing she hated doing in Ron Howard’s “Eden"

Rachel Cohen, a third-year law associate who resigned over a deal she says her high-powered law firm Skadden Law reached with the Trump administration, speaks during a hearing in the Dirksen Senate Building on April 7, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

The rule of law is on the ropes

Tatyana Tandanpolie

Rachel Cohen, who quit her law firm to protest its capitulation to Trump, says now is the time for resistance

Law enforcement officials are on scene to investigate an attack on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado on June 1, 2025. (Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Flamethrower used in Boulder attack

Charles R. Davis

Police have detained a suspect in Sunday's attack on a vigil for Israeli hostages

Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks at a campaign rally at First Horizon Coliseum on November 02, 2024 in Greensboro, North Carolina. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The hidden agenda of America first

Heather Digby Parton

The president stops the investments that made America wealthy in recent years

U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts before the State of the Union address in the House chamber on February 4, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Leah Millis-Pool/Getty Images)

Owning the libs is now policy

Austin Sarat

The perils of opposition party politics come back to bite

Amber Heard and Johnny Depp watch as the jury leave the courtroom for a lunch break at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, on May 16, 2022 (STEVE HELBER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Johnny Depp's trial predicted Trump 2.0

Amanda Marcotte

The trial was permission to believe men are the real victims — regardless of facts

Woman waving a "Born this Way" rainbow flag over the dancing crowd in front of the San Francisco Federal Building, at the Gay Pride Festival. (Getty Images/Tristan Savatier)

Pride is good for you, science says

Elizabeth Hlavinka

Shame, discrimination and stigma have been linked to adverse health outcomes — and pride could be the antidote

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks onstage during the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) on September 23, 2024 in New York City. (Alex Kent/Getty Images)

Clinton denies Biden decline

Alex Galbraith

The former president said he saw no reason to be concerned about Biden's mental state

Sally Hawkins in "Bring Her Back" (Ingvar Kenne/A24)

The horror of loving too much

Coleman Spilde

The sophomore feature from horror's star siblings is a haunting journey into deeply personal, aching sadness

CEO of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel And Convention Center on February 20, 2025 in Oxon Hill, Maryland. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Musk asks CBS to stick to "spaceships"

Alex Galbraith

The former head of DOGE didn't want to reflect on his time in the Trump administration

Fancy ranch (Studio Alcott / Getty Images )

The best salad dressing? Fancy ranch

Ashlie D. Stevens

A creamy, tangy love letter to the most misunderstood dressing

Donald Trump and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump: Biden is a clone

Alex Galbraith

The president shared a post late Saturday night suggesting Biden had been "executed" and replaced

Brian Johnson, also known as the Liver King, is the subject of Netflix's "UNTOLD: The Liver King" (Netflix)

The alpha male era is on its way out

Melanie McFarland

The right’s “masculinity crisis” has popular culture in a bear hug. But it may be nearer to tapping out

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Chinese President Xi Jinping pose for a photograph during their meeting in Beijing, on February 4, 2022. (ALEXEI DRUZHININ/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

Does Trump want to carve up the world?

Andrew O'Hehir

Trump longs to revive the imperialist "Great Game" alongside Xi and Putin. There's a problem: He's too dumb

A memorial and mural that honors George Floyd at the Scott Food Mart corner store in Houston's Third Ward where Mr. Floyd grew up on June 8, 2020 in Houston, Texas (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Minneapolis isn't sorry

Taylor Carik

Five years after the historic murder and civil rights uprising, not much in the city has changed

Virus (Getty Images / Yuichiro Chino)

Viruses are in us. And are us. It's ok.

Carlyn Zwarenstein

Viruses are in us. They're even part of us. Now researchers want to map the human virome

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