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Demonstrators gather at the Capitol Reflecting Pool near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on February 17, 2025 to protest against Project 2025 and the Trump administration. (BRYAN DOZIER/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Senate Dems wary of government shutdown

Russell Payne

Some Democrats fear taking the blame if they don't offer their votes for a Republican spending proposal

Presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr. speaks at the Nixon Library on June 12, 2024 in Yorba Linda, California. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

RFK Jr. directs FDA to revise this rule

Joy Saha

The HHS Secretary said eliminating this loophole will provide more food transparency to consumers nationwide

President Donald J. Trump speaks with members of the coronavirus task force during a briefing in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Thursday, April 23, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

COVID amnesia puts US at risk

Heather Digby Parton

The pandemic has gone so far down the memory hole that it's like it never happened

Supporters of transgender youth held a protest in St. Paul, Minnesota on March 6, 2022. (Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Trump attacks Maine over trans girls

Callie Ferguson, Erin Rhoda, Jennifer Smith Richards, Jodi S. Cohen - ProPublica

“The president is trying to crush the opposition. He’s trying to crush Maine,” said attorney David Webbert

A view of the famous 'Morant's Curve' offering a beautiful view of the frozen Bow River and the Canadian Pacific Railway at Banff National park near Lake Louise, Canada, late on December 06, 2013. (Photo by JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Mining violates rights of nature

Joseph Winters, Taylar Dawn Stagner - Grist

Tribunal judges found the industry guilty of “ongoing ecocide.”

U.S. President Donald Trump and White House Senior Advisor, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk sit in a Tesla Model S on the South Lawn of the White House on March 11, 2025 in Washington, DC (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

How Musk love-bombed Trump's MAGA cult

Amanda Marcotte

How Elon love-bombed Trump's MAGA cult

U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, Minority leader U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters and civil rights leaders Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson lead marchers during the Bloody Sunday 60th anniversary march at Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on Sunday, March 09, 2025. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Dems need to ditch the unity pitch

Chauncey DeVega

Political science professor M. Steven Fish on why the Dems don't need to pander to polls to fight for justice

Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump worsening our mental health crisis

Anthony Estreet

The consequences of mass firing federal employees will ripple through society for years

Linda McMahon, former Administrator of Small Business Administration, speaks during the final night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Thursday, July 18, 2024. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

DOE to layoff half of workforce

Alex Galbraith

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said her end goal is to completely shutter the department

Sarah McBride, Democrat running for Delaware's Congressional seat, is seen on the second night of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Ill., on Tuesday, August 20, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Hearing comes to halt over McBride diss

Alex Galbraith

Rep. Bill Keating refused to allow a meeting to proceed until the chair addressed Rep. Sarah McBride correctly

SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk speaks at a town hall with Republican candidate U.S. Senate Dave McCormick at the Roxain Theater on October 20, 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Michael Swensen/Getty Images)

Trump cuts Tesla ad at White House

Alex Galbraith

Trump made good on a promise to buy a Tesla from DOGE head Elon Musk, showing off his Model S at the White House

Mel Gibson (Getty/Andreas Rentz)

Gibson case may have led to DOJ firing

Alex Galbraith

Elizabeth Oyer says her firing came after she opposed restoring actor and Trump supporter Mel Gibson's gun rights

A Southwest Airlines plane lands at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) in San Francisco, California, United States on June 8, 2023. (Tayfun CoSkun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Checking bags on Southwest will cost you

Quinn Sental

The airline is ditching its “bags fly free" policy despite having built decades of brand identity and loyalty

L-R: Sophie Nélisse as Teen Shauna, Liv Hewson as Teen Van and Alexa Barajas as Teen Mari in "Yellowjackets." (Kailey Schwerman/Paramount+ with SHOWTIME)

"Yellowjackets" values fighting to exist

Racquel Marie

By embracing resilience, the show's deeply human characters remind us of the right to exist without justification

Stock Market Arrow Graph Going Down (Getty Images)

Stocks slump as trade war grows

Quinn Sental

The Dow fell more than 400 points on Tuesday as Trump announced he would increase tariffs on Canada

Thousands are backed up and waiting to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge to commemorate the 60th anniversary of events that occurred on the bridge iin Selma, Alabama in 1965. These marchers came to Selma today, Sunday, March 09, 2025. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Black voters' power hangs in the balance

Tatyana Tandanpolie

Conservatives have challenged the drawing of some Black-majority congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterms

The US and Canadian flags are pictured at Peace Arch Historical State Park in Blaine, Washington, on March 5, 2025.) (Jason Redmond / AFP) (Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump escalates economic war on Canada

Charles R. Davis

In a post on Truth Social, Trump stressed that his goal is to make Canada a "cherished" part of the United States

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

There is only one end to MAGA dominance

Chauncey DeVega

Political scientist M. Steven Fish explains that otherwise Trump is "going to seem like a boss"

(Getty/Mark Wilson)

TSA hit with “PATCO on steroids”

Robert Hennelly

“This is sending a message to the rest of corporate America that contracts don’t matter”

Elon Musk and Robert Kennedy Jr. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why RFK is letting Musk run wild in HHS

Amanda Marcotte

Some Cabinet officials loathe Musk, but Kennedy grabs his chance to destroy science-based medicine

Girl with measles on their body (Getty Images/StockPlanets)

You don't want to throw a measles party

Carlyn Zwarenstein

As the anti-vaccine movement brings measles surging back, we must also recall why we need a vaccine for it

100 dollar banknote with medical mask (Getty Images/Anton Petrus)

Money saved our marriage from COVID

Bob Brody

It was as if talking about money, and earning it, would act as a vaccine that endowed our family with immunity

SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk participates in a town hall-style meeting to promote early and absentee voting at Ridley High School on October 17, 2024 in Folsom, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Musk having trouble running DOGE, Tesla

Alex Galbraith

The Tesla and SpaceX head told Fox Business' Larry Kudlow that trying to run his companies and DOGE has been taxing

Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak during an election night event at the Palm Beach Convention Center on November 06, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump promises more protester arrests

Alex Galbraith

Trump celebrated the arrest of Mahmoud Kalil, a former student at Columbia University, in a post to Truth Social

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