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Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

First Iowa results: Pete, Bernie lead

Igor Derysh

Iowa Democrats released 62% of the results, nearly 24 hours after an app meltdown derailed Monday's caucuses

Cheer (Netflix)

How Cheer became fodder for SNL & memes

Ashlie D. Stevens

The docuseries' viral success — and memeability — lies in how it captured the performances off the mat

Local residents check-in after arriving at an Iowa Democratic caucus at Hoover High School, Monday, Feb. 3, 2020, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Don’t trust the techies with democracy

Keith A. Spencer

Inserting computers into the voting process makes democracy more opaque. Why do politicians keep falling for it?

Margot Robbie stars as "Kayla Pospisil" in BOMBSHELL. (Hilary Bronwyn Gayle SMPSP)

Oscars: Backing Robbie as the dark horse

Gary M. Kramer

With Harvey Weinstein's #MeToo trial in the news, "Bombshell" resonates more than ever

Donald Trump (AP Photo/Gallup)

Trump's approval rating hits record high

Matthew Rozsa

A majority of Americans polled said that they felt Trump should be acquitted in the ongoing impeachment trial

Iowa Caucus (Getty Images/Salon)

Iowa Dems were warned of app problems

Igor Derysh

Iowa Democrats should have known that the reporting app, that led to the caucus debacle, was due for meltdown

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Mystery company gave Collins PAC $150K

Igor Derysh

There is no public information about the company — except that it was created weeks before cutting a massive check

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Murkowski: I "cannot vote to convict"

Igor Derysh

The Republican senator complains about "rank partisanship," however she vows to back Trump despite his wrongdoing

Joe Scarborough (Getty/Paul Morigi)

Joe Scarborough skewers Iowa Democrats

Travis Gettys - Raw Story

"The world’s watching this," the "Morning Joe" host says. "We’re not being melodramatic"

Supporters of democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wait for results to come in at his caucus night watch party on February 03, 2020 in Des Moines, Iowa. Iowa is the first contest in the 2020 presidential nominating process with the candidates then moving on to New Hampshire. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/Salon)

Iowa: Take a chill pill, everybody

Amanda Marcotte

Iowa's technical cock-up is a good reason to end the outmoded caucus system, but not to sow conspiracy theories

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks at a campaign rally at the University of Minnesotas Williams Arena on November, 3, 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Over 10,000 people attended the rally, where Sanders was joined by Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar. (Scott Heins/Getty Images)

Sanders campaign signals victory in Iowa

Matthew Rozsa

Bernie Sanders received 29.7 percent of the vote from nearly 40 percent of precincts, according to the campaign

US President Donald Trump (Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)

After Trump's acquittal: What next?

Bob Cesca

Bill Barr and Mitch McConnell have done their worst. Only the voters can stop the Mad King from full power

(Getty/Nicholas Kamm/AP/Reinhold Matay/Salon)

America: The land of make-believe

Chris Hedges - Truthdig

This battle against collective self-delusion is a battle I fear we will not win

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Dems threaten to subpoena Betsy DeVos

Igor Derysh

Democrats on House Oversight Committee threaten to compel DeVos' testimony after she "stonewalls" and "delays"

Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg (Getty Images/Salon)

Dems in disarray? Iowa caucus a disaster

Sophia Tesfaye

After an epic meltdown in Iowa, all Democrats except Biden declare victory. They're definitely wrong about that

FILE - In this Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012 file photo, Libyan militias from towns throughout the country's west parade through Tripoli, Libya. At the heart of the Libyan capital, the open-air Fish Market was once where residents went to buy everything from meat and seafood to clothes and pets. Now it’s Tripoli’s biggest arms market, with tables displaying pistols and assault rifles. Ask a vendor, and he can pull out bigger machine guns to sell for thousands of dollars. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid Al Fergany, File) (AP)

Why the war in Libya will never end

Vijay Prashad - Independent Media Institute

Libya has been reduced to a chessboard for a multidimensional game that is hard to explain and even harder to end

A quarantine warning is displayed outside the horse racing track at Turf Paradise, Friday, Jan. 29, 2016, in Phoenix. Turf Paradise has euthanized one horse and is quarantining two others in the wake of a herpes outbreak that surfaced in New Mexico.(AP Photo/Matt York) (AP)

A brief history of quarantines

Leslie S. Leighton - The Conversation

Beginning as early as the ancient Greeks, people turned to quarantine to contain a scourge

A view of the Los Angeles city skyline as heavy smog shrouds the city in California on May 31, 2015 (Getty/Mark Ralston)

Our cars are spewing black carbon

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist

The path we've chosen to better fuel economy could end up costing the U.S. hundreds of lives each year

In this June 2014 photo provided by Transition House, a homeless shelter in Santa Barbara, Calif., Melody, 4, makes a paper whale after listening to a story about whales during the Transition House’s Technology and Literacy for Children story time. A new report released Monday, Nov. 17, 2014, by the National Center on Family Homelessness says that one fifth of America's homeless children are in California. (AP Photo/Transition House, Kimberly Kavish) (AP)

Child poverty in the age of Trump

Rajan Menon - TomDispatch.com

What excuse does the United States have for its striking levels of child poverty?

Caucus goers arrive in Iowa. (Jeff Haynes / Reuters)

Will the 2020 caucuses be disrupted?

Steven Rosenfeld - Independent Media Institute

Candidates may declare victory. But it could be many days to verify results

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) greets Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) (R) as former Vice President Joe Biden looks on ahead of the Democratic presidential primary debate at Drake University on January 14, 2020 in Des Moines, Iowa. Six candidates out of the field qualified for the first Democratic presidential primary debate of 2020, hosted by CNN and the Des Moines Register. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Sanders and Biden on collision course

Steven Rosenfeld - Independent Media Institute

Both champion ordinary Americans, but their missions and movements are not the same and not easily reconciled

Rep. Rodney Garcia of Montana (Montana State Legislature)

Montana GOPer: Socialists should be shot

Matthew Rozsa

"I agree with my Constitution," state Rep. Rodney Garcia says. "That's what makes us free"

Rush Limbaugh (Getty/Jim Watson)

Rush Limbaugh reveals cancer diagnosis

Igor Derysh

“This day has been one of the most difficult days in recent memory for me"

"Bird Summons," Leila Aboulela, "Everywhere You Don't Belong" by Gabriel Bump, "Upright Women Wanted" by Sarah Gailey. and "The Lost Book of Adana Moreau" by Michael Zapata (Black Cat/Algonquin Books/Tor/Hanover Square Press)

7 must-read novels to transport you

Hanh Nguyen, Ashlie D. Stevens, Erin Keane

From the riots in Chicago to a dystopian future with queer badass librarians, take a leap with these curated picks

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