House Speaker fight certainly proves one thing: MAGA is still a death cult

Steve Scalise, Tom Emmer and Jim Jordan (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Tom Emmer drops speaker bid within hours: The MAGA cult is in a death spiral

Amanda Marcotte

For Trump loyalists, the possibility of total government collapse is basically a positive

10/25/2023 06:00 EDT

Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“Plutocrats and populists”: The GOP’s “contradictory principles” make a perfect recipe for fascism

Chauncey DeVega

Professor Gavriel D. Rosenfeld on the toxic stew of tax cuts to rich people while placating racist scapegoating

10/24/2023 05:45 EDT

US President Donald Trump (L), Global Chairman of Pratt/Visy Industries Anthony Pratt and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (R) visit Pratt Industries during the plant's opening in Wapakoneta, Ohio on September 22, 2019. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s chatter with Aussie billionaire could create “additional Espionage Act charges”

Areeba Shah

Legal expert: Trump’s pattern of sharing sensitive information with pals could lead to further serious charges

10/24/2023 05:30 EDT

American Chef Anthony Bourdain (Paulo Fridman/Corbis via Getty Images)

In 2023, nobody knows how to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 2013, Anthony Bourdain did

Melanie McFarland

Instead of screaming past each other, try revisiting the 2013 "Parts Unknown" episode exploring "Jerusalem"

10/22/2023 08:00 EDT

A screen grab captured from a video shared online shows Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Russian private security company Wagner, holding a rifle in a desert area while wearing camouflage in a video for the first time after his rebellion against the Russian administration in an unspecified location in Africa on August 21, 2023. (Wagner Account/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Moscow’s man in Africa: Yevgeny Prigozhin and the collapse of the French empire

Alfred McCoy

Before his sudden demise, the shadowy Wagner Group leader helped unravel 60 years of French domination in Africa

10/22/2023 06:00 EDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin smiles during a meeting with military personnel of Russian Air Forces Base of Kant at the Ala-Archa State Residence on October 12, 2023, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. (Contributor/Getty Images)

“Putin’s Western fan club” wants to force Eastern Europe into a Russian bearhug

Josef Bouska

Arguing Eastern Europe should be left under Russia's influence makes liberty a privilege of the powerful and mighty

10/21/2023 06:00 EDT

U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) sits in the House chamber after the House of Representatives failed to elevate Jordan to Speaker of the House for the third time in the U.S. Capitol on October 20, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Jordan out as speaker candidate in secret ballot after top ally warned death threats “will continue”

Tatyana Tandanpolie

Republicans voted against keeping Jordan as the speaker designee — so they'll start from scratch next week

10/20/2023 14:36 EDT

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) speaks with Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as members of the U.S. House of Representatives gather for a second round of voting for the next speaker at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday October 18, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Jordan tries to back out of vote after GOP opponents face “death threats” and “intimidation”: report

Igor Derysh

"He's done," one Republican said after GOP moderates erupted over bullying and intimidation tactics

10/19/2023 09:24 EDT

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) talking with staff and fellow lawmakers as the House of Representatives meets to elect a new Speaker of the House at the U.S. Capitol Building on October 17, 2023 in Washington, DC. | US President Joe Biden speaking during a press conference following a solidarity visit to Israel, on October 18, 2023, in Tel Aviv. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Joe Biden visits an actual war zone; House GOP tries to pull its pants up

Brian Karem

There's a tiny, stupid war raging within the Republican Party. Joe Biden paid attention to the war that matters

10/19/2023 09:00 EDT

A Palestinian youth reacts as he sits on the rubble of a destroyed home following an Israeli military strike on the Rafah refugee camp, in the southern of Gaza Strip on Octobers 15, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)

David Rothkopf on war in Gaza: “Revenge is not a strategy. It doesn’t make people safe”

Chauncey DeVega

Israel's invasion of Gaza may "compound one set of atrocities with another" just as 9/11 did, Rothkopf warns

10/18/2023 05:45 EDT

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) speaks to reporters before heading into a House Republican caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol on September 19, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Day of the goons: Win or lose, Jim Jordan marks a new low point for the GOP

Brian Karem

Jim Jordan's threats and empty promises may not be enough to end all-out Republican chaos

10/17/2023 12:49 EDT

Jada Pinkett Smith (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Jada Pinkett Smith opens up about depression, writing “Worthy” and her version of a happy ending

D. Watkins

The "Red Table Talk" host talks trauma, Tupac and the "layered, complex event" that was Will Smith's Oscars slap

10/17/2023 12:00 EDT

Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, conducts the House Judiciary Committee hearing in Rayburn Building on Wednesday, June 21, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

“Carnival of idiots”: GOP holdouts threaten embarrassing defeat for Jordan as “bullying” backfires

Gabriella Ferrigine

Fox News hosts sound the alarm as detractors threaten to sink Jordan's speaker bid in House vote

10/17/2023 10:31 EDT

A man wails after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City, Gaza on October 09, 2023. Search and rescue works continue. (Belal Khaled/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Military expert on Gaza war: “When politicians act like children, children wind up dying”

Chauncey DeVega

Former Marine turned author Elliot Ackerman on how emotion and psychology are driving the world's bloody new war

10/17/2023 05:45 EDT

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is seen outside a House Republican Conference speaker election meeting before he was voted to be the party's nominee for speaker of the House in Longworth Building on Friday, October 13, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

“Approximately” 20 Republicans plot to block Jim Jordan amid the “dumbest” pressure campaign

Gabriella Ferrigine

Jordan ally Dan Crenshaw warns "high-pressure campaign" could backfire on MAGA Republicans

10/16/2023 11:23 EDT

Jonah Hauer-King as Harry in "World on Fire" (Mammoth Screen/Masterpiece)

World War II drama “World on Fire” returns with more terrifying and rage-inducing untold stories

Ani Bundel

While Lesley Manville and Jonah Hauer-King return, it's the recent additions that offer new and richer insights

10/15/2023 16:00 EDT

Beyond the right’s “woke” slurs, what would a “progressive” U.S. military really look like?

William J. Astore

I'm not talking about painting rainbow flags on B-52s — imagine a humble, faithful and much smaller U.S. military

10/15/2023 06:00 EDT

Donald Trump | An aerial view of destroyed buildings following the Israeli airstrikes in Al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City, Gaza on October 12, 2023. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

From MAGA to Gaza: Trump’s disorder engine has global consequences

Chauncey DeVega

Donald Trump claims the Gaza war is all about him — and at this point, that staggering narcissism is no surprise

10/13/2023 05:45 EDT

A man stands by as a fire rages in a livestock market area in al-Fasher, the capital of Sudan's North Darfur state, on September 1, 2023, in the aftermath of bombardment by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). (AFP via Getty Images)

Suffering in the shadows: The humanitarian calamities that aren’t on the world’s agenda

Priti Gulati Cox, Stan Cox

When was the last time you heard or read or saw anything about the devastating war still ongoing in Sudan?

10/13/2023 05:00 EDT

Israeli troops gather around a cordoned-off Israeli police station that was damaged during battles to dislodge Hamas militants who were stationed inside, on October 8, 2023. (MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)

How did Israeli intelligence miss Hamas’ preparations to attack? Expert on how Israeli intel works

Javed Ali

How did Israel fail to piece together clues about this large-scale and highly complex plot in advance?

10/12/2023 17:00 EDT

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

“Republicans are embracing this guy”: Trump slams Israeli intelligence, calls Hezbollah “very smart”

Igor Derysh

Ex-Pence adviser calls out GOP for claiming "to stand by Israel while still standing by Trump"

10/12/2023 09:20 EDT

Hamas and the GOP are both terrorist groups — it’s just a matter of degree

Brian Karem

Most Americans understand the truth about Donald Trump and his followers: They're deranged, violent and dangerous

10/12/2023 09:00 EDT

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) listens during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol Building following passage in the House of a 45-day continuing resolution on September 30, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

House speaker debacle holds promise for democracy: The Jeffries Compromise

Frederick Baron

Could GOP chaos lead to a historic compromise with Democrats?

10/12/2023 05:30 EDT

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

A House in turmoil: Republicans struggle to find a speaker amid boiling tensions over Kevin McCarthy

Heather Digby Parton

Whoever is ultimately selected, the new speaker will have the same sword hanging over his head that McCarthy had

10/11/2023 09:57 EDT