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News & Politics (page 16)

Salon covers national news and politics through investigations, insightful reporting, commentary and analysis.

A supporter attends an book event by Trump-supporting author Nick Adams for the DC Young Republicans at the Capitol Hill Club on January 29, 2024, in Washington, DC. His book is called "Alpha Kings" and he prides himself as being endorsed by Trump. (Photo by Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post/Getty Images)

MAGA education charity may be a scam

Kali Bomeli - ProPublica
Ryan Reynolds in his Deadpool costume speaks during 2026 Comic-Con International in San Diego, July 25, 2026. (Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

Politics is broken — but Comic Con isn't

Brian Karem
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche (Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images)

The reason Blanche won't drop slush fund

Amanda Marcotte
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick listens to testimony during the former attorney Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's impeachment trial on September 06, 2023 in Austin, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Texas Senate mulls ways to push religion

Alejandro Serrano - The Texas Tribune
People visit a makeshift memorial at the intersection where Corey Ruiz was shot and killed by Madison Police on July 23, 2026 in Madison, Wisconsin. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)

Accountability can't stop at ICE

Insha Rahman
In a scene from "Hadestown," actors Eva Noblezada and Reeve Carney demonstrate the capacity to hold another’s reality without collapsing it into their own. (Walter McBride/Getty Images)

Performing arts and the empathy crisis

Stephen Brown-Fried, Pablo Helguera
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche attends a news conference on November 19, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images))

Judges slam Trump's "unethical" DOJ

J. David McSwane, Pratheek Rebala, Carla Astudillo - ProPublica
CNN's chief White House correspondent and anchor Kaitlan Collins on the job at the White House following a shooting incident at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 25, 2026.

CNN is complicit in the Trump circus

Sophia Tesfaye
Vice President JD Vance (Mark Schiefelbein-Pool/Getty Images)

Vance will never be the GOP Obama

Amanda Marcotte
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico speaks during a press conference at the Hyatt Centric Congress Avenue on July 22, 2026 in Austin, Texas. The discussion comes as data centers have emerged as a major political issue in Texas, with Gov. Greg Abbott calling for stronger oversight of their expansion. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Talarico leads Paxton in new poll

Gabby Birenbaum - The Texas Tribune
The Republicans' new Education Freedom Tax Credit will siphon money away from public schools that most need it (Celal Güne/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Private school on the public's dime

Glenn Sacks
Donald Trump and Elon Musk (Brandon Bell / Getty Images)

Trump and Musk's history obsession

Sonja Drimmer
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting on February 23, 2024, in National Harbor, Maryland. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Talarico: Paxton committed voter fraud

Zach Despart - The Texas Tribune
Secretary of State Marco Rubio (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Fighting Marco Rubio's enemies list

Keri Leigh Merritt
Former vice president Kamala Harris speaks during the National Action Network (NAN) 35th Anniversary Convention (Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Harris’ biggest 2028 opponent is herself

Jason Kyle Howard
Thomas Jefferson (Photo illustration by Salon/VCG Wilson/Corbis/Getty Images/HappyFoto)

A founding father's queer legacy

Nicholas Boston
Large group of school kids raising their hands to answer the teacher's question on a class at elementary school. (Getty Images/skynesher)

Tax-funded private schools are wild west

Jennifer Smith Richards, Megan O’Matz, Mollie Simon, Jennifer Berry Hawes - ProPublica
Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin should acknowledge the view of the party's base on Israel ((Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

DNC chair Ken Martin is under fire

Jason Kyle Howard
A Trump executive order to limit mail-in ballots just hit a roadblock as a federal court ruled against the administration to enforce the order. But there's still four months until the midterms. (Ronaldo Bolaños / Getty Images)

Court rebuffs Trump on mail voting rules

CK Smith
Bernie Sanders attends during "Bernie Sanders: It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism" at Royal Geographical Society on February 22, 2024 in London, England. (Joe Maher/Getty Images For Fane)

Sanders to Emanuel: Shut up and go away

Alex Galbraith
People created memorials for the dead and injured at the site where a suspect rammed a van into crowds at a German Pride festival. (Omer Messinger / Getty Images)

Berlin Pride attack kills 1, injures 29+

CK Smith
The golf course at Trump National Doral now features a 22-foot golden statue of its namesake. (Ben Jared / PGA TOUR / Getty Images)

The last gasp of Trump's foreign policy

Andrew O'Hehir
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (Pet Hegseth)

Hegseth's Iran war math doesn't add up

Heather Digby Parton
North Dakota state capitol building in Bismarck, ND. (Getty/powerofforever)

Red state socialist institutions thrive

Jeffrey Anvari-Clark - The Conversation
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