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White House chief of staff Mark Meadows (Getty/Alex Wong)

Mark Meadows: Trump's worst sidekick?

Heather Digby Parton

Former Freedom Caucus head is in over his head, obeying his worst instincts and wrecking the place — like his boss

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Harris will "chew" up Pence in debate

Bob Brigham - Raw Story

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace on Joe Biden’s pick of Kamala Harris to be his running mate

How TV paints women presidents

Karrin Anderson - The Conversation

Showrunners "go out of their way to demonstrate that pursuing the presidency isn’t her life’s goal"

Still life of a face mask on red background (Getty Images)

Public health officials are losing jobs

Michelle R. Smith, Associated Press, Lauren Weber - KFF Health News

At least 49 state and local public health officials have resigned or lost jobs since April across 23 states

US President Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why cutting payroll taxes won't work

Terry H. Schwadron - DCReport

Trump’s dubious move to cut Social Security taxes won’t revive the virus-infected economy

Donald Trump being interviewed by ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos (ABC News)

Why Trump’s attacks on Biden are missing

Alex Henderson - Alternet

Trump is not describing the Joe Biden that countless people know in Washington, D.C.

Mary Trump, the niece of Donald Trump and author of "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man" (Peter Serling/Getty Images/Lev Radin)

Mary Trump on how her uncle got that way

Dean Obeidallah

Psychologist and bestselling author says her uncle can't help being cruel — but his enablers should know better

Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

Trump super PAC runs "news" site

Roger Sollenberger

The American Herald looks like a conservative news site, but it's run by pro-Trump super PAC America First Action

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris (Getty Images/Salon)

Kamala is a safe pick — and that's OK

Amanda Marcotte

Harris was the favorite all along — picking her was smart politics, and speaks well of our country's progress

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) (Getty Images/ Jim Lo Scalzo-Pool)

Cruz criticized for COVID-19 relief joke

Roger Sollenberger

"Millions of families are facing hunger, the threat of eviction, and the loss of their health care . . . Get real"

"Meet the Press with Chuck Todd" (William B. Plowman/NBC)

Chuck Todd haters, we take your point

Melanie McFarland

When Todd should have reclaimed the mic from a guest who came prepared to steamroll him, he got flattened – again

Barack Obama and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump forgets standard he set for Obama

Igor Derysh

"I think it's been amazing what we've been able to do," Trump said of his response to the coronavirus pandemic

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks on the South Lawn of the White House on July 16, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Trump threatens seniors — media yawns

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch

Is the media so jaded it barely noticed that Trump just proposed "bankrupting Social Security" — and Medicare too?

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) (Getty/Cliff Hawkins)

Harris makes history as VP candidate

Roger Sollenberger

Biden has tapped his former rival for the party's presidential nomination to be his running mate

Riot police blocking the entrance to I-195 during the demonstration (Adam DelGiudice/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Defund police, re-fund mental health

Matthew Rozsa

Police are often terrible at dealing with mental illness — leading many to rethink how "policing" might work

(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Dumping Falwell won't save evangelicals

Amanda Marcotte

After Trump, the right doesn't need to hide behind the Bible. Why even pretend to care about Falwell's antics?

Uber/Lyft drivers conduct a ‘caravan protest' (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Uber and Lyft to reclassify drivers

Nicole Karlis

California gig economy workers are apt to see an improvement in wages and benefits — assuming the companies comply

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnel (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Kentuckians "furious" with Mitch: report

Alex Henderson - Alternet

"I can’t imagine a state that needs additional relief more than Kentucky does"

Former President Donald Trump (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Judge rejects executive privilege claim

Alex Henderson - Alternet

Officials have claimed that a batch of 2019 emails discussing Trump's hold on military aid to Ukraine are protected

White House Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Conway links shooting to 2020 election

David Edwards - Raw Story

“People are also worried that Donald Trump is going to get four more years, and they’re starting to lose it"

Brad Reed

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O'Reilly to join accuser's radio station

Igor Derysh

O'Reilly set to join WABC Radio, whose staff includes another former Fox host who accused him of sexual harassment

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally  | COVID-19 patient attached to a ventilator (Getty Images/Salon)

White House overpaid for ventilators

Patricia Callahan, Sebastian Rotella - ProPublica

A House panel says "gullible" White House negotiators overpaid for Phillips ventilators

U.S. President Donald Trump (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Trump's massive Social Security blunder

Bob Cesca

Trump's payroll-tax gambit could be the dumbest thing he's ever done — unless it works. Either way, it's a disaster

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