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Donald Trump. Heavy smoke rises from a wildfire burning in a mountain near a residential area on September 10, 2024 in Irvine, California. (Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images)

Republicans seek revenge with LA fires

Heather Digby Parton
Published 6 months ago

People who refuse to do anything about the real crisis we're facing, climate change, pounce straight to punishment

Republican Presidential candidate, former U.S. president, Donald Trump, left, poses for photos with Republican Vice Presidential candidate, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance, (R-OH), before making remarks to a crowd during an event on August 21, 2024 in Asheboro, North Carolina at the North Carolina Aviation Museum and Hall of Fame. (Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images)

Trump-Vance access sold for $1 million

Griffin Eckstein
Published 6 months ago

Want Trump's ear during the inauguration? Be ready to pay up

Firefighters watch the flames from the Palisades Fire burning a home during a powerful windstorm on January 8, 2025 in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. (Apu Gomes/Getty Images)

LA wildfires among costliest disasters

Natalie Chandler
Published 6 months ago

Early estimates put the damage and economic losses between $250 billion and $275 billion

The Eaton Fire burns through a neighborhood on January 08, 2025 in Altadena, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

It is now painfully clear what matters

Brian Karem
Published 6 months ago

The wildfires in Los Angeles are a harbinger of our doom — yet ultimately leave me with hope

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks at a re-election rally at Maceachron Park on June 21, 2024 in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. (Joy Malone/Getty Images)

Legacy media begins to sound like Bernie

Nolan Higdon
Published 6 months ago

Bernie Sanders was right

Young female patient in the clinic suffering a coughing fit while the doctor listens to the her lungs with a stethoscope. (Getty Images/stefanamer)

Is it seasonal influenza or bird flu?

Nicole Karlis
Published 6 months ago

Public health experts weigh in on the current state of testing for bird flu amid rising cases of influenza A

A few hundred supporters of women's rights gathered in Union Square to celebrate International Women's Day. (Gabriele Holtermann-Gorden/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"Fair Shake" imagines an equal economy

Daria Solovieva
Published 6 months ago

Written before Trump's reelection, “Fair Shake: Women & the Fight to Build a Just Economy" is more timely than ever

Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY). (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

GOP Sen.: LA aid has "strings attached"

Alex Galbraith
Published 6 months ago

Wyoming Senator John Barrasso said he expects "hearings" to determine what California needs to do to receive aid

U.S. Vice President-elect Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) arrives for the Senate Republican leadership elections at the U.S. Capitol on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Vance: We have troops in Greenland

Alex Galbraith
Published 6 months ago

The vice president-elect hinted the U.S. might flex its military might to get a deal done with the small nation

Doechii at Camp Flog Gnaw 2024 Carnival held at Dodger Stadium on November 16, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Katie Flores/Billboard via Getty Images)

Doechii's anthem of Black anxiety

Nardos Haile
Published 6 months ago

The three-time Grammy nominee is taking the rap world by storm while highlighting the importance of mental health

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting on February 24, 2024, in National Harbor, Maryland. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Bannon bashes Musk as "truly evil"

Alex Galbraith
Published 6 months ago

The former Trump adviser said he would have Musk "run out of here by Inauguration Day"

Assortment of fruits and vegetables (Getty Images/carlosgaw)

2025: The year you'll eat more produce

Michael La Corte
Published 6 months ago

Dietician Nichole Dandrea-Russert gives her best tips, tricks and strategies for bulking up your intake

Special Counsel Jack Smith delivers remarks on a recently unsealed indictment including four felony counts against former U.S. President Donald Trump on August 1, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Trump gloats over Smith resignation

Alex Galbraith
Published 6 months ago

The president-elect said the "stench" of the man charged with investigating him was "gone" from the DOJ

U.S. President Donald Trump inspects the troops during a full honors welcome ceremony on the parade grounds at the Pentagon, on July 25, 2019 in Arlington, Virginia. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Under Trump, military faces a crisis

Gregory D. Foster
Published 6 months ago

This won't be the first time politics has endangered our professional military. What can we learn from the past?

Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

It's now worse than fake news

Sandra Matz
Published 6 months ago

And our efforts to eradicate fake news could inadvertently exacerbate the problem

Woman fanning herself with money (Getty Images/Marco VDM)

To earn more in 2025, learn these skills

Jake Safane
Published 6 months ago

Here are the top three skills employers say are the most important this year

Donald Trump speaks with Gavin Newsom, as they view damage from wildfires in Paradise, California on November 17, 2018. ( Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump and Newsom's fire feuds, explained

Griffin Eckstein
Published 6 months ago

They exchanged blows as LA burned this week, but this wasn't the first feud between the pair

Satellites Flying Around Earth (Getty Images/yucelyilmaz)

Scientists propose space junk cleanup

Matthew Rozsa
Published 6 months ago

Earth is surrounded by millions of pieces of space junk, which pose a constant threat to future space exploration

Bill Maher: Is Anyone Else Seeing This? (Greg Endries/HBO)

Bill Maher, the coastin' elite

Melanie McFarland
Published 6 months ago

This special is what giving up at the "concepts of a plan" stage looks like

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at the Department of Labor on December 16, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Biden blasts Meta changes as "shameful"

Griffin Eckstein
Published 6 months ago

The president slammed Zuckerberg's decision to axe fact-checking and expose "millions of people" to misinformation

A McDonald's to-go bag and an accompanying to-go cup stand in front of a McDonald's branch (Christoph Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Fast food bets big on value in 2025

Joy Saha
Published 6 months ago

Subway and Wendy's also followed suit, releasing their own discount menus and menu items

Bill Maher visits The Megyn Kelly Show at the SiriusXM Studios on May 20, 2024 in New York City. (Noam Galai/Getty Images)

Maher mocks Trump assassination attempt

Alex Galbraith
Published 6 months ago

Maher laid into conspiracy theorists and the late would-be assassin in a bit from his new stand-up special

Mel Gibson attends a special screening of "Monster Summer" at the DGA Theater Complex in Los Angeles on September 24, 2024. (VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

Gibson floats wildfire conspiracies

Alex Galbraith
Published 6 months ago

The actor was recording an episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience" as his California home burned

Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Joe Biden’s most peculiar rejection

Austin Sarat
Published 6 months ago

The decision of two death row inmates to turn down clemency sounds unthinkable, but they are not the first to do it

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