What's driving the Midwest COVID surge?
We know how to stop the coronavirus' spread. But culture and politics are getting in the way in the heartland
Beware of bad debate coverage
Anyone who chooses to focus on gaffes, zingers and optics is doing a disservice to this campaign — and the country
Reading list to survive the plague year
How Emily Dickinson, Octavia Butler, Joan Didion, Jericho Brown, and other authors helped me survive
Barrett tied to far-right religious cult
Barrett's connection to the extremist quasi-Catholic cult People of Praise is once again coming under scrutiny
Attack Trump as a failure, not a cheat
Trump is no bold captain of industry: He's a loser who kept afloat by selling ringtones and defrauding Granny
Inequality: The real debate topic
Biden is correct to focus on COVID and health care. But both parties built the edifice of American inequality
Fox News' obsession with the word "hate"
Tucker Carlson is a big fan of the phrase "they hate." Usually, he’s talking about Democrats
McEnany backs “criminal" probe of NYT
McEnany claims it was "unacceptable for these documents of the president to leak illegally to The New York Times"
Fox News host floats bonkers conspiracy
“The Trump team asked to inspect the ears of each debater for electronic devices or transmitters,” Bill Hemmer says
Conway predicts Trump will go "bankrupt"
The bottom line, Conway says, is that Trump is "done . . . not just politically, but financially and legally"
AG to release Taylor grand jury records
Grand juror said AG Daniel Cameron misrepresented the deliberations. Cameron agreed to release grand jury recording
Fauci calls out Scott Atlas, Fox News
"Fox News . . . some of the things that they report there are outlandish, to be honest with you"
Ted Cruz corned on "The View"
Cruz tried to defend Trump's response to the COVID-19 pandemic — and it didn't go well for the GOP senator
Why did Trump push to reopen so hard?
Donald Trump is broke, and his resorts are bottomless money pits. He needed "reopening" to keep his business afloat
New SCOTUS may hurt Trump supporters
President Trump continually pushed his supporters to take Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate to fight COVID-19
Trump sought to deter 3.5M Black voters
In act of "21st century voter suppression," Trump's 2016 campaign sought to "methodically" deter Black voters
Trump's debt: National security threat?
President's personal debt could be "one of the greatest individual security risks in the history of this country"
Cracking down on vehicle pollution
Public health advocates say that diesel emissions contribute to increases in fine particulate matter
Barrett's problem with the Constitution
Amy Coney Barrett sees the law as a cruel, harsh master of the individual
Atlas "spreading misinformation": expert
Trump adviser Dr. Scott Atlas "has been spreading misinformation for a long time," said one epidemiologist
Wild scene: Brad Parscale in custody
Ousted Trump campaign chair Brad Parscale involuntarily hospitalized after alleged suicidal behavior, spousal abuse
FDA dragging feet on food safety law
The Food Safety Modernization Act became law in 2011. One NGO says the FDA still hasn't abided by it
The Korean Vegan recipe for anti-racism
Salon spoke to Joanne Molinaro about Trump as an inspiration, her most popular recipe, and getting through 2020
A lot of liquid water may exist on Mars
A spacecraft scanning the red planet has found evidence for briny lakes beneath Mars' south pole