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U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein, right, speaks at a news conference in Baltimore, Wednesday, March 1, 2017, to announce that seven Baltimore police officers who worked on a firearms crime task force are facing charges of stealing money, property and narcotics from people over two years. Standing alongside Rosenstein is Baltimore Police Department Commissioner Kevin Davis. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) (AP)

Limbaugh pushes coronavirus conspiracy

Igor Derysh

The brother of a top Centers for Disease Control official is former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein

Mike Pence (Getty/Joe Raedle)

Health "expert" Pence botched HIV crisis

Igor Derysh

Mike Pence's "defining moment" as a one-term governor was "enabling an HIV outbreak" in 2015

U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wave after a "Namaste Trump," event at Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020, in Ahmedabad, India. India poured on the pageantry with a joyful, colorful welcome for President Donald Trump on Monday that kicked off a whirlwind 36-hour visit meant to reaffirm U.S.-India ties while providing enviable overseas imagery for a president in a re-election year. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

"Namaste Trump"

Sumit Ganguly - The Conversation

Trump’s visit diverges from past presidents by focusing on India’s increasing spending on U.S. military supplies

President Donald Trump, with members of the President's Coronavirus Task Force, holds a paper about countries best and least prepared to deal with a pandemic, during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump's coronavirus snafu and the GOP

Sophia Tesfaye

Republican response to potential pandemic aims at protecting Trump with cowardice, hypocrisy and outright lies

Indian Muslim women participate in a rally to protest against a new citizenship law in Rupahi hat village, east Gauhati, India, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020. The law fast-tracks naturalization for non-Muslim migrants from neighboring Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who are living in the country illegally. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Indian citizenship laws spur uprisings

Alka Kurian - The Conversation

Today's activists fully embrace the idea that women's freedom means little if other groups are still oppressed

David Wright (LORENZO BEVILAQUA/WALT DISNEY TELEVISION/GETTY IMAGES)

ABC newsman tells truth, is punished

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., right, with his wife Jane, speaks during a campaign event in San Antonio, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Bernie can't win! Except, yeah, he can

Jim Naureckas - FAIR

Even at "liberal" Mother Jones, bad science is deployed to pour cold water on Sanders' electoral prospects

Donald Trump during Press Briefing with Press Secretary Sarah Sanders (YouTube/The White House)

300+ days without a press briefing

Charles Bierbauer - The Conversation

“Bringing the American people in on the process, early and often, makes for better democracy”

The One Franklin Square Building in Washington that houses the Washington Post. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File) (AP)

WaPo editor ripped for "ignorant" op-ed

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams

That attempted comparison spurred a wave of criticism from progressive critics and informed experts.

Donald Trump and Richard Nixon (AP Photo/Alex Brandon/Getty Image/Ketstone)

Watergate atty.: Trump worse than Nixon

Alex Henderson - Alternet

"Donald Trump is a much more existential threat to democracy than Richard Nixon was," says Jill Wine-Banks

A team of nurses with Livio Health Group took the vital signs of Anthony Nichols 52, at the large homeless camp Monday September 24, 2018 in Minneapolis, MN. Nichols said that he has a heart condition and had not been taking his medicine; he was later transported to local hospital by ambulance. Nichols said that he had been staying at the camp for only two days. (Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images)

Can you afford a coronavirus test?

Nicole Karlis

Those with poor insurance have a financial disincentive to seek medical help — which will only worsen the crisis

Donald Trump and the market plunging (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Trump "furious" CDC "spooked" markets

Igor Derysh

The CDC issued a public health safety warning about possible pandemic. Trump is pissed that it scared investors

The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez (Netflix)

Inside "The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez"

Ashlie D. Stevens

The producers of the series spoke to Salon about how the heartbreaking case went from courtroom to streaming

Greed (Sony Pictures Classics)

No, Gordon Gekko, "Greed" is not good

Gary M. Kramer

We have Michael Winterbottom to thank for this ham-handed comedy that also stars Shirley Henderson & Isla Fisher

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a community event at Hyde Park Middle School on February 21, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Biden is campaigning one day before the Nevada Democratic presidential caucuses. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Biden admits Mandela story is false

Igor Derysh

Biden recently started telling voters he was "arrested" while trying to visit Nelson Mandela. That didn't happen

Pete Davidson and Colin Jost during Weekend Update on Saturday, December 21, 2019 (Will Heath/NBC)

Davidson: SNL castmates think he's dumb

Matthew Rozsa

The comedian aired his dirty laundry to Charlamagne tha God in a YouTube interview this week

Harvey Weinstein arrives at a Manhattan courthouse as jury deliberations continue in his rape trial, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Accusers talk Weinstein's walker, Streep

Matthew Rozsa

The film mogul still has a Los Angeles trial to go through, and the women known as the Silence Breakers are ready

Hank Azaria, voice actor for Apu from "The Simpsons" (AP Photo/FOX/Salon)

Azaria wants to make up for voicing Apu

Matthew Rozsa

Hari Kondabolu first called attention to how the portrayal perpetuated negative Indian American stereotypes

Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders (AP Photo/Salon)

Boomer politics in 2020: Just say no

Amanda Marcotte

Free advice for Bernie Sanders: This election has to be about the 21st century, not "We Didn't Start the Fire"

Democratic presidential candidates, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, raises his hand during the Democratic presidential primary debate at the Gaillard Center, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, in Charleston, S.C., co-hosted by CBS News and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Mike nearly says he "bought" Dems seats

Igor Derysh

Bloomberg nearly said he "bought" seats for Democrats after Warren called him out over support for Republicans

From left, Democratic presidential candidates, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and businessman Tom Steyer, participate in a Democratic presidential primary debate at the Gaillard Center, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, in Charleston, S.C., co-hosted by CBS News and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Did Bloomberg buy the debate crowd?

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams

The crowd at Tuesday's Democratic debate booed Bernie Sanders and cheered Mike Bloomberg

Gov. Kate Brown of Oregon denounces a walkout by Republicans in the state Senate that prevented a quorum on Monday, Feb. 24, 2020 in Salem, Ore. Republican lawmakers are trying to doom a contentious climate change bill. Brown said the Republicans are not against the climate policy but are against the Democratic process. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)

Oregon GOP flees to block climate bill

Igor Derysh

Republicans again fled the Senate to block a vote on a climate bill despite getting extensive "concessions"

US President Donald Trump (R) and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi wave at the crowd during 'Namaste Trump' rally at Sardar Patel Stadium in Motera, on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, on February 24, 2020. (MONEY SHARMA/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump in India: Fluffed and bamboozled

Heather Digby Parton

Trump had a great time being hosted by Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi: Just another strongman yanking his chain

US Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents take part in a safety drill in the Anapra area in Sunland Park, New Mexico, United States on January 31, 2019. (Getty/Herika Martinez)

FBI looks into Border Patrol union funds

A.C. Thompson, Jeff Ernsthausen - ProPublica

The theft raises more questions about lawlessness in the union’s ranks.

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