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Demonstrators participate in a protest against the police killing of Tyre Nichols on January 27, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

America's most enduring myth

Chauncey DeVega

Policing is inherently conservative and authoritarian as an institution

Gigi Sohn (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden FCC nominee faces GOP, dark money

Rae Hodge

Gigi Sohn battles Republican hostility and onslaught of Big Telecom dark money in "proxy fight for net neutrality"

This photo taken on April 16, 2010 shows a giant NASA science balloon being inflated at the launch site near Alice Springs. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Why aliens wouldn't spy with balloons

Nicole Karlis

Astronomers weigh in on the latest balloon conspiracy theory

Nikki Haley visits "Hannity" at Fox News Channel Studios on January 20, 2023 in New York City. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images)

Critics: Nikki Haley "is no moderate"

Julia Conley - Common Dreams

"The same politics of lies and division that Trump used, just in a softer voice," says Rev. Dr. William Barber II

The Baphomet statue is seen in the conversion room at the Satanic Temple in Salem, Massachusetts. (JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

Satanic Temple opens abortion clinic

Kelly McClure

The clinic will prescribe medication for a “religious abortion ritual,” aiding those who live in New Mexico

Drone footage shows the freight train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, U.S., February 6, 2023 in this screengrab obtained from a handout video released by the NTSB. (National Transportation Safety Board/WikiCommons)

The major public health disaster in Ohio

Troy Farah

Despite reassurances from public officials, concerns linger about a train derailment that released toxic chemicals

A person with rainbow colored eye makeup looks on as members and supporters of the LGBTQ community attend the "Say Gay Anyway" rally in Miami Beach, Florida on March 13, 2022. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Report: Women face "brutal violence"

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams

A first-of-its-kind report looks "beyond the criminalization of same-sex conduct"

Greta Gerwig as Babette, Raffey Cassidy as Denise, May Nivola as Steffie, Sam Nivola as Heinrich and Adam Driver as Jack in "White Noise." (Netflix)

Eerie "White Noise" unfolding in Ohio

Alison Stine

Noah Baumbach's film, based on the 1985 book, echoes the toxic event and its ecological aftermath in East Palestine

Texas governor Greg Abbott (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Official: Abbott plan would hurt schools

Brian Lopez - The Texas Tribune

"Maybe that’s one less fourth grade teacher,” the official shrugged

Njinga (ADESUWA ONI) in "African Queens: Njinga." (Netflix)

All hail Netflix's African Queens Njinga

Melanie McFarland

Narrated by Jada Pinkett Smith, Netflix's hybrid docuseries highlights how much history Hollywood tends to ignores

Breakfast cereal in spoon (Getty Images/Anna Blazhuk)

Cereal for the self-deprecating humorist

Maggie Hennessy

"You ever eat a pine tree?"

Elon Musk Twitter account private page seen on Mobile with Elon Musk in the background on screen. (Photo Illustration by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Musk forced change to boost own tweets

Samaa Khullar

Frustrated about his engagement on Twitter, Musk forced his team of engineers to overflow the feed with his tweets

A sign stands outside of a McDonald's restaurant (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

McDonald’s and Black America

FoodPrint - FoodPrint

"While it’s true that fast food is everywhere, it is even more prevalent in predominantly non-white communities"

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee speaks at a hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 30, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Sanders bill: $60K teacher minimum wage

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams

The average starting salary for teachers is less than $42,000. The bill would raise pay for 43% of teachers

U.S. President Donald Trump announces that he has accepted the resignation of Nikki Haley as US Ambassador to the United Nations, in the Oval Office on October 9, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

MAGA fumes after Trump ally backs Haley

Areeba Shah

Ralph Norman, who called for "Marshall Law" to keep Trump in office, is supporting his new nemesis this time around

Mifepristone (Mifeprex) and Misoprostol, the two drugs used in a medication abortion (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Prepping for a new post-Roe reality

Nicole Karlis

A decision on a lawsuit in Texas could lead to nationwide mifepristone ban

Smoke rises from a derailed cargo train in East Palestine, Ohio, on February 4, 2023. (DUSTIN FRANZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Ohio train disaster follows deregulation

Kenny Stancil - Common Dreams

The East Palestine derailment is the "latest in a long string of corporate malfeasance"

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Jonathan Ernst-Pool/Getty Images)

89-year-old Dianne Feinstein to retire

Lincoln Mitchell - The Conversation

Some may remember what happened the last time Feinstein announced her retirement from politics

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a 2024 election campaign event in Columbia, South Carolina, on January 28, 2023. (LOGAN CYRUS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump lawyer becomes "hostile witness"

Igor Derysh

Jack Smith is seeking to invoke the crime-fraud exception to compel Trump attorney's testimony

Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump preps for more American carnage

Heather Digby Parton

In order to run to Ron DeSantis' right, Trump to paint a picture so grim of America he'll bring back firing squads

Gun safety advocates participate in the 'March For Our Lives' rally in downtown Orlando, Florida, United States on June 11, 2022. (Paul Hennessy/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

GOP still seeks to ban books — not guns

Amanda Marcotte

It's about control, not protection: Despite Michigan State shooting, Republicans will treat books as more dangerous

Ron DeSantis (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

DeSantis' hypocrisy is his secret weapon

David Mura

That DeSantis relies on this foundational principle of white supremacy is actually evidence of systemic racism

Steve Scalise and Kevin McCarthy (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP's tough talk on crime is hypocrisy

Austin Sarat

Crime is much worse in "red states" — and that's been true for years. Why don't Democrats ever just say it?

A US Air Force (USAF) fifth-generation supersonic multirole F-35 fighter jet flies past during a flying display on February 14, 2023. (MANJUNATH KIRAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Defense contractors' "merger mania"

Julia Gledhill, William D. Hartung - TomDispatch.com

Tackling Pentagon waste means battling the big weapons makers and asking more of Congress

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