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A ballot inspector prepares ballots to be counted from the Los Angeles primary election in the tally area at Piper Technical Center March 4, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images)

More than 1M ballots could be rejected

Igor Derysh

“Rejecting thousands of ballots would be enough” to swing a close race, says Columbia professor Richard Briffault

Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

Why our anxious nation clings to polling

W. Joseph Campbell - The Conversation

Election polling projects a sense of precision, and that holds considerable appeal in troubled times

The News Corp. building on 6th Avenue, home to Fox News, the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal (Kevin Hagen/Getty Images)

How Fox News viewers write about "BLM"

Mark Kamlet, Ashique KhudaBukhsh, Tom Mitchell - The Conversation

Talking politics increasingly seems like an exercise in talking past one another

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

Texas early votes surpassa 2016 turnout

Roger Sollenberger

Two election forecasters have moved Texas into "toss-up" territory amid a surge in new voters

Sen. John Cornyn (Al Drago/Getty Images)

No, Cornyn didn't "graduate" from Oxford

Roger Sollenberger

Cornyn attacked an opponent a few years later for "padding his resume," referencing a lie about a college degree

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

Mark Meadows accused of finance crimes

Roger Sollenberger

The complaint draws on Salon's exclusive reporting from last week about the possible violations

President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at U.S. Bank Arena on August 1, 2019 in Cincinnati, Ohio. The president was critical of his Democratic rivals, condemning what he called "wasted money" that has contributed to blight in inner cities run by Democrats, according to published reports. (Andrew Spear/Getty Images)

Trump fans get heat stroke at FL. rally

Kenny Stancil - Common Dreams

"Trump campaign goes into home stretch by infecting, freezing, and burning its own supporters"

Trump

Trump "worst criminal in human history"

Alex Henderson - Alternet

"I'm not talking about Trump the human being. I couldn't care less about him. I'm talking about the policies"

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

Are Biden aides panicked over turnout?

Bob Brigham - Raw Story

Symone Sanders disputes the report: "Earning the support of diverse voters is the beating heart of our operation"

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump (Getty/S)

Lincoln Project trolls Javanka yet again

Sarah Toce - Raw Story

The couple threatened to sue the GOP group for “enormous” sums if it didn't take down billboards with their images

SARAH COOPER as SARAH COOPER, EDDIE PEPITONE as ACCESS HOLLYWOOD MAN, HELEN MIRREN as BILLY BUSH in SARAH COOPER: EVERYTHING’S FINE (LACEY TERRELL/NETFLIX © 2020)

Mirren recreates "Access Hollywood" tape

Bob Brigham - Raw Story

The scene is from Trump impersonator Sarah Cooper’s new Netflix special “Everything is Fine"

Man using tablet pc, laptop and smartphone (Getty Images)

Multitasking is bad for memory

Matthew Rozsa

People who use several digital or screen-based media at the same time may suffer memory issues as a result

Steve Bannon (Getty/Sean Gallup)

Bannon's darkest plot yet is imploding

Alex Henderson - Alternet

Bannon's ideas for getting Trump reelected include firing FBI Director Christopher Wray and smearing Hunter Biden

U.S. President Donald Trump holds a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House August 19, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Officials worry about Trump on Nov 3rd

Brad Reed - Raw Story

Officials say Trump will claim some kind of “victory” on November 4th even if the vote tallies show him behind

The Mandalorian (Disney+)

"Mandalorian" shows us how to win 2020

Melanie McFarland

The Season 2 premiere expands the "Star Wars" mythology with a fable about overcoming cultural division to survive

One yellow binder clip between black ones (Getty Images)

On "camouflaging" autism in a pandemic

Matthew Rozsa

Workplace discrimination against the neurodivergent is so common, most co-workers have no idea they're doing it

The Donut King (Greenwich Entertainment)

The riveting saga of "The Donut King"

Gary M. Kramer

Filmmaker Alice Gu spoke to Salon about the charming Ted Ngoy, who created a donut empire for Cambodian immigrants

Busy businessman wearing mask checking his schedule (Getty Images)

Why you're resisting making future plans

Ashlie D. Stevens

With pandemic and election stress at an all-time high, I found myself unable to schedule things past Nov. 3

Guns for sale at a Walmart, July 19, 2000. (Photo by Newsmakers)

Walmart pulls guns amid unrest concerns

Igor Derysh

Human rights groups worried over election violence: "Guns, protests and elections do not mix well”

This illustration shows the lightning phenomenon known as a sprite and what a sprite could look like in Jupiter's atmosphere. Named after a mischievous, quick-witted character in English folklore, sprites last for only a few milliseconds. They feature a central blob of light with long tendrils of light extending down toward the ground and upward. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI)

Sprites haunt Jupiter’s atmosphere

Nicole Karlis

Sprites, "spectacular flashes of light" high in the atmosphere, have been seen on another world for the first time

(Fox News)

Don Jr.: COVID deaths "almost nothing"

Igor Derysh

Deaths rose to 1,040 on Thursday as the number of new COVID-19 cases hit the highest number on record

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally on October 28, 2020 in Bullhead City, Arizona. With less than a week until Election Day, Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden are campaigning across the country. (Isaac Brekken/Getty Images)

Trump will play victim — no matter what

Amanda Marcotte

Trump may slink away in shame if he loses. If he wins, we're in for four years of tantrums and recrimination

(Getty/filadendron)

The spooky possibility of thrift stores

Francesca Lyman - InvestigateWest

Consumers and donors may be surprised to learn that not all thrift stores are nonprofits

Tucker Carlson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Tucker Carlson, UPS and the Bidens

Roger Sollenberger

Carlson implied he was the target of a deep-state plot when "damning" documents went missing. Then UPS found them

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