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Marjorie Taylor Greene and Mitch McConnell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Mitch or Marjorie: Who's the face of GOP

Amanda Marcotte

Senate Republicans can whine all they want — but if they vote to acquit Trump, they're throwing in with the QAnoner

President-elect Joe Biden's nominee for Secretary of Defense, retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin testifies at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee at the U.S. Capitol on January 19, 2021 in Washington, DC. Previously Gen. Austin was the commanding officer of the U.S. Central Command in the Obama administration. (Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images)

Austin purges last-minute Trump picks

Igor Derysh

Trump's acting defense secretary had replaced dozens of board members with Trump loyalists following election loss

Pres. Trump at the 2019 National Prayer Breakfast, with co-chairs Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), who objected last week to electoral-vote counting, and, on the right, Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE). (Screengrab from C-SPAN video)

Breakfast leaders backed Trump's lies

Jonathan Larsen - The Young Turks

Since 1953, every U.S. president has addressed the National Prayer Breakfast. Will Joe Biden break the tradition?

Mitch McConnell and Liz Cheney, haunted by Paul Ryan, John Boehner and Eric Cantor (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Radical chickens have come home to roost

Heather Digby Parton

The GOP is haunted — not by Trump — but by ghosts of the Republican Party of past

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Sidney Powell, Donald Trump and Mike Flynn (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The craziest meeting of the Trump era

Brad Reed - Raw Story

Massive report details "the craziest meeting of the Trump presidency" — here are the 5 most hilarious parts

Members of the National Guard in the plaza in front of the U.S. Capitol Building on Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021 in Washington, DC. After last week's riots and security breach at the U.S. Capitol Building, the FBI has warned of additional threats in the nation's capital and across all 50 states. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

The future of war, American-style

Danny Sjursen - TomDispatch.com

A Bidenesque tour of America’s regional and global military adventures

Joe Biden (Getty Images)

Biden must not surrender

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org

The real reason Republicans don’t want Biden’s plan is they fear it will work

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), listens during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee reviewing coronavirus response efforts on September 16, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images))

Graham blocking Garland all over again

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams

Using "last vestiges of power," Graham stalls Biden's nomination of Merrick Garland in bizarre replay of 2016

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Crowds arrive for the "Stop the Steal" rally on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Trump supporters gathered in the nation's capital today to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over President Trump in the 2020 election. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Why are so many people loyal to Trump?

Seth D. Norrholm, Alan D. Blotcky

Trump's mass of followers is a huge problem for America — but they're not all the same. This taxonomy should help

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows speaks to the press in Statuary Hall at the Capitol on August 22, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Gabriella Demczuk/Getty Images)

Meadows "likely" under investigation

Roger Sollenberger

Former Trump chief in jeopardy: Watchdog group filed complaint against Meadows in October, based on Salon's report

US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) wears a "Trump Won" face mask as she arrives on the floor of the House to take her oath of office as a newly elected member of the 117th House of Representatives in Washington, DC on January 3, 2021. (ERIN SCOTT/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Throw her out of Congress!

David Cay Johnston - DCReport

Marjorie Taylor Greene is a menace and a traitor

Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Don’t blame Fox for the Capitol riot

Ashique KhudaBukhsh, Mark Kamlet, Tom Mitchell - The Conversation

Fox was just as likely to use the phrase "president-elect" as MSNBC and CNN

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U.S. Postal Service Postmaster General Louis DeJoy arrives at the Rayburn House Office Building for a hearing before House Oversight and Reform Committee on August 24, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The committee is holding a hearing on "Protecting the Timely Delivery of Mail, Medicine, and Mail-in Ballots." (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Pool)

Biden urged to fire Postal Service Board

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams

"Through the devastating arson of the Trump regime, the USPS Board of Governors sat silent"

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., leaves her news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Window to pass legislation is closing

Nathanael Johnson - Grist

Here’s what’s likely to make the cut

Mediterranean hurricane (Medicane) Ianos makes landfall in Greece. (Gallo Images/Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data 2020)

A "disasterologist" talks climate change

Tara Lohan - The Revelator

An emergency management expert explains why the climate crisis should be a key part of emergency planning

Ammonite fossils (Getty Images)

A rare fossil find

Matthew Rozsa

Like the dinosaur butthole whose discovery was announced last month, this fossil involves soft tissue preservation

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Brad Parscale and Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

Trump campaign owes itself money

Roger Sollenberger

Another theory: The campaign owes money to a shell company it owns — that owes the money to someone else

Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan and Liz Cheney (Getty Images/Salon)

Cheney too liberal for GOP extremists

Alex Henderson - Alternet

The backlash against Cheney by pro-Trump Republicans has been intense

Planet Venus (Getty Images/3quarks)

Sulfur dioxide mistaken for life sign?

Matthew Rozsa

Scientists thought they found a gas on Venus that is associated with bacteria. Was it a sulfurous mirage?

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

Biden might deny Trump intel briefings

Jon Skolnik

"It's something, obviously, that's under review," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said of Trump's

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An empty public restroom (Getty Images)

Is it safe to use public restrooms?

Nicole Karlis

We asked public health experts just how COVID-safe public bathrooms are — and what to be wary of

Young woman feeling bored while staying home for safety during a global pandemic (Getty Images)

Try mindfulness this Groundhog Day

Jeremy David Engels - The Conversation

A scholar argues there's more to the film "Groundhog Day" — it's a lesson in mindfulness

Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, US President Donald Trump, and Sen. Mitt Romney (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call/Steve Parsons-WPA Pool/Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Graham warns Dems not to call witnesses

Jon Skolnik

Sen. Lindsey Graham issues a threat to protect Trump, warns that calling witnesses would “open up Pandora's Box”

Anchor Michael Che during Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live (Will Heath/NBC)

SNL's Che slammed for transphobic joke

Ashlie D. Stevens

Che has a history of using transphobic material in both "Weekend Update" and his stand-up

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