Religious freedom: The 2020 battle is on
Trump's administration is pushing a Christian nationalist agenda — but a diverse coalition is pushing back hard
Did MLK fuel Bernie's idea of justice?
King is often honored as a "civil rights" leader, while his Bernie-style radical economic vision is overlooked
Childhood lead poisoning
Children from low-income families may be more susceptible to toxic environmental hazards such as lead exposure
A world envisioned by Flaubert
Is a 19th-century French author’s cosmic joke turning into a real-life global nightmare of fake news?
Trump: The white backlash president
Trump's election felt like a repudiation of a half century of black assimilation and aspiration to integration
Military drones come home
General Atomics is conducting a test flight of its SkyGuardian drone over San Diego sometime this year.
The myths that diminish MLK's legacy
America has remade Dr. King as a Disney character — a peaceful lamb who just wanted us to love each other
Protests against austerity & endless war
The sustained protests are part of a larger trend against austerity and endless war.
Why MLK detested moderates
MLK was "gravely disappointed" with white moderates, whom he believed were responsible for impeding civil rights
What to do with overripe bananas
Sticky banana-cocoa bars will change your life
Getting jiggly with it
"Show Me Your Aspics" is one of many groups that appreciate jello-like foods that range from bizarre to beautiful
Set sail on HBO's lawless space cruise
Armando Iannucci speaks to Salon about his love of sci-fi and the metaphorical promise offered by space
Here's why people don't vote
People have different reasons for not showing up on Election Day.
Impeachment and historical memory
Impeachment is an important historical moment — but we must look past it to create the possibility of real change
DoorDash is paying workers $1.45 an hour
Worse, about a third of DoorDash jobs paid less than $0 after accounting for basic expenses
My post-stroke existentialism
Salon founder David Talbot almost died — and found that what life meant to him after was completely transformed
How mathematics can save your life
In “The Math of Life and Death,” Kit Yates shows how mathematics is crucial to understanding everything we do
Facebook, Twitter & Trump’s lies
Should Facebook & Twitter stop Trump’s lies?
MLK Day: For justice, confront our past
Racist perceptions play out in prosecutors' offices and throughout the criminal justice system today
Cities push back against nuclear weapons
“We forget that all power is local. And by forgetting to act locally, we are giving away all the power.”
Trump and the "one-termers"
Donald Trump could become the 11th one-term president in American history. The list starts out well, but then ...
How to prevent ugly primary feuds
Our winner-takes-all system not only encourages this inane behavior in primaries, it almost necessitates it
Revisiting Citizens United
Kennedy is the author of one of the most controversial and scorned rulings in modern Court history: Citizens United
Why you need more Vitamin D in winter
Vitamin D is sometimes called the sunshine vitamin.