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Former U.S. President Donald Trump stands with his lawyer Alina Habba as she speaks to the media at one of his properties, 40 Wall Street, following closing arguments at his civil fraud trial on January 11, 2024 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Newark mayor sues Alina Habba

Blaise Malley

Mayor Ras Baraka accuses the U.S. attorney for New Jersey of acting like a MAGA "political operative"

US Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York, attends a news conference introducing the Equality Act, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on June 21, 2023. (STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

House Democrats condemn "reckless" DHS

Cheyenne McNeill

The detention of a congressional aide shows a "deeply troubling disregard" for the law, Democrats say

A child playing at school (Getty Images / Manu Vega)

Trump's cuts make it hard to be a parent

Tatyana Tandanpolie

Efforts to slash childcare and other social spending will compound the difficulties of raising young kids

Judge Amy Coney Barrett meets with U.S. Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) on October 21, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Sarah Silbiger-Pool/Getty Images)

Now Trump's mad at Amy Coney Barrett

Blaise Malley

Frustrations with the conservative justice, simmering for over a year, are spilling out in MAGA media

Universe starscape 3D illustration with colorful soundwave. (Getty Images / EzumeImages)

Space is noisy. We just can't hear it

Elizabeth Hlavinka

Space isn't quiet. It's just that humans can't hear it

Various characters from HBO shows (Photo Illustration by Salon / Courtesy HBO)

Lesbians get more crumbs for Pride Month

Kelly McClure

A smattering of lesbian-coded media feels like an uptick for a community subsisting on "The L Word" for decades

Cash raining down on the masses (Getty Images/Salon)

Prosperity sharing: Not just for the 10%

Paul Bucheit

Socialized dividends — sometimes called sovereign wealth funds — are common in conservative states

Activists hold up torches during a rally as they commemorate slain indigenous peoples and environmental defenders on November 10, 2022 in Quezon city, Metro Manila, Philippines. (Getty Images / Ezra Acayan / Stringer)

Indigenous defenders face rising threats

Miacel Spotted Elk - Grist

The past decade has seen “a consistent, sustained pattern against people who speak out against" human rights abuses

Donald Trump watching democracy burn (Getty Images/Salon)

Trump's hold on MAGA grows tighter

Chauncey DeVega

"There is virtually nothing Trump can do for the Republican base to not support him"

Yvie Oddly, Jinkx Monsoon, The Vivienne, and Jaida Essence Hall in the "Total Ru-quest Live" episode of "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars" (World of Wonder/Paramount+)

What's dragging queens down

Zina Kumok

Between makeup, hair and costumes, it’s not uncommon for performers to barely break even

A satellite image from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Milton on Tuesday October 08, 2024. (NOAA NESDIS STAR GOES-East/GEOCOLOR)

FEMA head: When is hurricane season?

Alex Galbraith

David Richardson left staff shaking their heads when he appeared unaware that hurricane season had started

President Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet in the Oval Office, Feb. 28, 2025. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump not informed of attack on Russia

Cheyenne McNeill

Ukrainian officials say the attack took more than a year to plan, but the Trump administration was kept in the dark

In this handout photo released by the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, suspect Sigfredo Ceja Alvarez poses for a booking photo on June 2, 2025 in San Antonio, Texas. He was booked on suspicion of murder of Jonathan Joss, a voice actor on the television show "King of the Hill". (Photo by Bexar County Sheriff’s Office/Getty Images)

"King of the Hill" star dies at 59

Cheyenne McNeill, Alex Galbraith

Joss, known for voicing John Redcorn on "King of the Hill," was shot in front of his San Antonio home on Sunday

People hold signs as they protest outside of the offices of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP on March 25, 2025 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Trump-friendly law firms lose clients

Cheyenne McNeill

Clients are shifting business to law firms that refused to capitulate to the president

(L to R) Mia Threapleton as Liesl, Benicio Del Toro as Zsa-Zsa Korda and Michael Cera as Bjorn in director Wes Anderson's "The Phoenician Scheme" (Courtesy of TPS Productions/Focus Features)

Wes Anderson's perfection leaves us cold

Coleman Spilde

Anderson's third film in five years is too precise to sink into. Maybe that's by design

Tomatoes on a tablecloth (Catherine Falls Commercial/ Getty Images )

Two words: Tomato. Butter

Ashlie D. Stevens

Tomato butter is sweet, spiced and sun-drunk — a fleeting summer thrill in a jar

Ana de Armas at the premiere of "Ballerina" (Olga Gasnier / Getty Images )

Ana de Armas reveals her ideal last meal

Joy Saha

The actor also revealed the one thing she hated doing in Ron Howard’s “Eden"

Rachel Cohen, a third-year law associate who resigned over a deal she says her high-powered law firm Skadden Law reached with the Trump administration, speaks during a hearing in the Dirksen Senate Building on April 7, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

The rule of law is on the ropes

Tatyana Tandanpolie

Rachel Cohen, who quit her law firm to protest its capitulation to Trump, says now is the time for resistance

Law enforcement officials are on scene to investigate an attack on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado on June 1, 2025. (Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Flamethrower used in Boulder attack

Charles R. Davis

Police have detained a suspect in Sunday's attack on a vigil for Israeli hostages

Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks at a campaign rally at First Horizon Coliseum on November 02, 2024 in Greensboro, North Carolina. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The hidden agenda of America first

Heather Digby Parton

The president stops the investments that made America wealthy in recent years

U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts before the State of the Union address in the House chamber on February 4, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Leah Millis-Pool/Getty Images)

Owning the libs is now policy

Austin Sarat

The perils of opposition party politics come back to bite

Amber Heard and Johnny Depp watch as the jury leave the courtroom for a lunch break at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, on May 16, 2022 (STEVE HELBER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Johnny Depp's trial predicted Trump 2.0

Amanda Marcotte

The trial was permission to believe men are the real victims — regardless of facts

Woman waving a "Born this Way" rainbow flag over the dancing crowd in front of the San Francisco Federal Building, at the Gay Pride Festival. (Getty Images/Tristan Savatier)

Pride is good for you, science says

Elizabeth Hlavinka

Shame, discrimination and stigma have been linked to adverse health outcomes — and pride could be the antidote

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks onstage during the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) on September 23, 2024 in New York City. (Alex Kent/Getty Images)

Clinton denies Biden decline

Alex Galbraith

The former president said he saw no reason to be concerned about Biden's mental state

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