How to reduce drunk driving
Today's holiday is one of the nation's most deadly when it comes to fatalities relating to drunk driving
Frederick Douglass: Hope on the Fourth
The former slave imagined a better America than this. Too many white people want to go backward: But there's hope
Radical Republicans punish poor people
From trying to gut Medicare to overhauling government agencies, the party targets the country’s most vulnerable
Justice Kennedy's environmental legacy
Kennedy has been in the majority in an outstanding number of environmental cases
Ingraham blames family for separations
The Fox News host blames separated families for the Trump administration policies: "You made a decision to cross!"
The life of a pyrotechnician
A pyrotechnics expert explains how fireworks technology has changed, and what it's like being on the front lines
These two planets may look like Earth 2
Two Kepler-discovered exoplanets could have changing seasons and a climate like Earth, according to a new study
Trump's anti-affirmative action agenda
Trump will reportedly roll back Obama-era admissions guidelines
Could America have a second civil war?
Salon talks to "American War" author Omar El Akkad about why "the first civil war doesn’t feel to have truly ended"
Jim Jordan denies he ignored sex abuse
"These are serious allegations": House Speaker Paul Ryan responds to allegations against Ohio Republican Jim Jordan
"Cleveland, it's your time"
Salon talks to the director of the short documentary "Balloonfest," streaming now on Salon Premium
Putin approved meddling to help Trump
Donald Trump is scheduled to have a one-on-one meeting with Putin later this month
Weinstein charged with three new counts
In total, the criminal charges facing Weinstein involve three women and span nearly a decade from 2004 to 2013
The Whitney Houston you didn't know
"Whitney" director Kevin Macdonald talks to Salon about making a documentary about the woman behind the voice
EPA Whistleblower: Pruitt kept secrets
Both Pruitt and several of his aides have reportedly kept "secret" calendars for meetings with big business leaders
Puerto Rico hid leptospirosis outbreak?
A mortality database states that 26 deaths in the half year following Maria were "caused" by the bacterial disease
Amber Tamblyn opens up about #TimesUp
With family separations at the border and SCOTUS dominating the news, can #MeToo regain America's attention?
Conway retweets fake Mike Pence account
Kellyanne Conway unknowingly retweeted a fake vice presidential twitter account, that took a shot at CNN
Nanette and the case for quitting comedy
Gadsby's Netflix special explains how jokes have prevented us from sharing the stories that maintain our humanity
Legacy power is being upended
From issues to campaign techniques, Joseph Crowley was left in the dust
Trump presidency: Another failed product
Trump's entire career has been a story of fakery, lies and upward failure. Will his uncanny luck hold in 2020?
"Fake News" attacks after paper shooting
After initially declining a request to lower flags for Capital Gazette journalists, Trump continues anti-press rant
Trump's violent threats are no joke
History has a lesson: Courtesy and "civility" are no way to oppose creeping authoritarianism. They only enable it
"Morning Joe" nails Paul Manafort
On "Morning Joe," former Republican National Committee head Michael Steele agreed that Paul Manafort is an "agent"