"Dead to Me" is a captive audience soap
Being stuck with someone can be the best, or the worst, or both, and this show plays that out with lots of soap
Trump wants autocracy — where's media?
In the last week, Trump's administration has tried to assert and consolidate total power. Who's telling the people?
Study: Social distancing works
A new study finds the nation's drastic measures saved 35 million people from contracting the virus
An artist paints her burglar in Hulu doc
Filmmaker Benjamin Ree spoke to Salon about the three-year process of filming his two subjects and ethical choices
Kroger won't demand overpaid wages back
Just as the grocery chain canceled its workers' "hero pay," Kroger was asking for emergency overpayment money back
Wisc. election linked to spike in cases
University of Wisconsin study finds a "significant" link to increase in infections in weeks following Election Day
Trump direct agencies to gut regulations
"And we want to leave it that way," Trump says, indicating an appetite to make the sweeping deregulation permanent
Jane Roe and anti-choice lies
Norma McCorvey said she was paid to "convert": Yet more evidence of the deep sleaze on the Christian right
Trump-backed company gets $1.3B contract
A scandal-plagued company under inspector general probe gets another contract after its CEO appeals to Trump on Fox
Trump appears to violate court order
A unanimous federal appeals court ruling found last year that Trump was prohibited from blocking Twitter followers
Trump willing to let benefits expire
"Trump's plan is to cut off the boost to unemployment benefits and shower his wealthy buddies with more tax cuts"
DOT IG fired amid Chao probe: Democrats
Ousted official was probing allegations of special treatment to allies of Chao's husband, Mitch McConnell, Dems say
Trump fumes over absentee ballots
The president's threat shows the lengths to which he is willing to go to stop an expansion of voting rights
Is Lindsey Graham setting a Trump trap?
Barr proclaims that no president can be investigated — but Graham's Obamagate show trial could hurt Trump badly
Fox News slashes its pandemic coverage
Fox's coverage has also shifted from public health and scientific concerns to economic anxiety and fringe protests
Social distancing & car-free culture
Where does that leave people who don’t own cars?
The left and Joe Biden: No future
Is the "New New Left" being immature if it rejects compromise? At some point, we must demand real change
Trump turns Secret Service into captives
Investigative reporter: Trump made the Secret Service "captive customers" in almost $1 million of gov. transactions
Mike Pompeo's scandal gets slimier
An $8 billion Saudi arms deal, a revolving-door lobbyist and a fired inspector general: Is Pompeo in trouble?
The Church of QAnon
The QAnon movement is now being used by some charismatic Christians as a way to interpret the Bible
"Neither ironic or funny"
"The behavior we're seeing at protests carries a high risk of infection," said an emergency care physician
“You’re a political toy!"
"What has he really done for truckers or any average American worker? Please, prove me wrong Mr. President”
12% of minority firms got relief: survey
Experts say the Paycheck Protection Program was set up in a way that excluded most black and Latino business owners
Graham to seek subpoenas for Obama staff
Graham told the president he would not subpoena Obama. Now, his frequent golf buddy could get the next best thing