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Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Jeff Sessions to announce Senate bid

Shira Tarlo

A decision by Sessions to run for his old Senate seat in Alabama could set up a high-profile battle with ex-boss

FILE - In a Friday, March 24, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump announces the approval of a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) (AP)

Meet Trump's energy commission nominee

Sarah Okeson - DCReport

In just two years, James Danly has jumped from law firm associate to FERC general counsel to would-be commissioner

US President Donald Trump smiles during a phone conversation with Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto on trade in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on August 27, 2018. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)

Is "The Apprentice: White House" a go?

Tom Boggioni - Raw Story

"It is something Burnett thinks could be a money-spinner and Trump is very keen on doing," a source reportedly said

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham and U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland (Getty Images/Mark Wilson/AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Graham: Did Sondland talk to Schiff?

Bob Brigham - Raw Story

"Was there a connection between Sondland and Democratic operatives on the committee? Did he talk to Schiff?"

Donald Trump (Brandon Dill/Getty Images)

Here's how Donald Trump wins again

Chauncey DeVega

All the pieces for Trump's re-election are in place. At this turning point in American history, will we fight?

Sherrod Brown (Nannette Bedway)

Sherrod Brown isn't running (exactly)

Andrew O'Hehir

Ohio senator visits Salon to talk history, try out lines for a campaign that absolutely, definitely isn't happening

This undated image provided by journal Science shows a campsite in Pucuncho Basin. Stone tools and other artifacts have revealed the presence of hunter-gatherers at about 14,700 feet above sea level, between 12,000 and 12,500 years ago in the Peruvian Andes. (AP Photo/Science, Matthew Koehler) (AP)

How humans kicked off a new age of fire

Kate Yoder - Grist

This “fire age” is reshaping our planet much like the last ice age carved out our rivers and lakes

Demonstrators protest President Donald Trump's visit to Chicago outside Trump International Hotel & Tower on October 28, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. Trump, who visited Chicago for the first time since taking office addressed the International Association of Chiefs of Police meeting at McCormick Place and attended a fundraiser. (Joshua Lott/Getty Images)

Trump Chicago hotel profits down 89%

Igor Derysh

Trump's company blames drop on Chicago "violence" — but his lawyers admit his unpopularity is hurting business

A homeless man sleeps on the grass at Civic Center Plaza on May 17, 2019 in San Francisco, California. (Getty/Justin Sullivan)

California is living a dystopian future

Stephanie LeMenager - The Conversation

The infernos that have consumed parts of the state are a preview of what awaits the rest of America.

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2015, file photo, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin speaks to the spectators gathered on the steps of the Kentucky Capitol following his public swearing in ceremony, in Frankfort, Ky. Bevin ordered the state to prepare new marriage licenses that do not include the names of county clerks in an attempt to protect the religious beliefs of clerk Kim Davis and other local elected officials. It was one of five executive orders he issued Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015, the first of his administration, that mostly revised or suspended recent actions by former Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File) (AP)

Are the 2019 elections a preview?

Steven Rosenfeld - Independent Media Institute

A GOP incumbent governor won’t admit defeat. Elsewhere, new voting systems underperform.

In this Friday, March 17, 2017 photo a sign advertises a program that allows food stamp recipients to use their EBT cards to shop at a farmer's market in Topsham, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) (AP)

"SNAP saves lives"

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams

"There is no excuse that in our first world country we have children who are malnourished."

Kellyanne Conway (AP/Evan Vucci)

Conway gives linguistics lesson to Fox

Matthew Rozsa

"In the case of ambassador Sondland, he said that he 'presumed,'" Conway tells the hosts of "Fox & Friends

Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The big Trump story: Abuse of power

Dan Froomkin

Media is starting to grasp the master narrative of the Trump presidency: His attempt to maximize presidential power

Joy Behar on The View (ABC)

Joy Behar suggests Democrats back Biden

Matthew Rozsa

“Look at the black community, because black men in particular — and probably the women — are backing Joe Biden"

John Kransinki in "Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Season 2" (Kurt Iswarienko/Amazon Studios)

"Jack Ryan" is an old spy in a new world

Melanie McFarland

Tom Clancy's operative will always have an appeal to a certain audience. But he feels like yesterday's man

The Lyft logo is displayed on a car on March 11, 2019 in San Francisco, California. On-demand transportation company Lyft has filed paperwork for its initial public offering that is expected to value the company at up to $25 billion. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Lyft, Uber taxed at SF ballot box

Nicole Karlis

Rideshare companies are “cannibalizing public transportation,” one expert noted, adding, "this tax makes sense"

Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) speaks during a press conference at the 9/11 Tribute Museum in Lower Manhattan on October 29, 2019 in New York City. Gabbard called for the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI declassify and release 9/11 investigative documents that she claims would implicate the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the 2001 terrorist attacks. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Gabbard pushes a 9/11 conspiracy theory

Shira Tarlo

The congresswoman accused the government of actively covering up "Saudi ties" from Americans and 9/11 families

A woman places her ballot paper in the box during early voting (Getty Images/Mark Ralston)

Ohio Republicans busted for fraud

Igor Derysh

Ohio men distribute phony sample ballots in local election. Republicans blame Democrats, somehow, for the charges

Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck in "Joker" (Niko Tavernise/Warner Bros. Entertainment)

Phoenix really wants a "Joker" sequel

Matthew Rozsa

The actor went to some pretty creative lengths to try to convince director Todd Phillips a sequel is needed

Meghan McCain on The View (ABC)

McCain runs out of excuses for Graham

Travis Gettys - Raw Story

Graham won't read evidence from the House impeachment inquiry, which he says he has written off as "a bunch of BS"

Virginia voters head to the polls at Nottingham Elementary School November 5, 2019 in Arlington, Virginia. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/Salon)

Big election winner: Election reform?

David Daley

Democratic victories in Kentucky and Virginia, and for ranked choice voting in NYC, are wins for electoral reform

John Mulaney hsa been cast as Henry David Thoreau in AppleTV+'s series Dickinson (Apple/Getty Images/Salon)

Mulaney should play weird historical men

Ashlie D. Stevens

From the mustachioed J.J. Bittenbinder to Henry David Thoreau on "Dickinson," the comedian occupies a unique niche

Sen. Rand Paul (Bryan Woolston/Getty Images)

Russian media names "whistleblower"

Igor Derysh

Paul said he "probably will" publicly disclose the identity of the whistleblower in spite of federal law

Jack Nicholson in The Shining (1980) (Warner Bros.)

“The Shining” prep for “Doctor Sleep”

Matthew Rozsa

Why Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation is actually a hopeful movie that challenges social issues and death itself

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