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Garrett Owen

Email: garrett.owen@salon.com

Garrett Owen is a National Affairs Fellow for Salon. His extensive coverage of the Trump administration includes reporting on the Epstein files, the Iran War, the Justice Department, and gerrymandering efforts across the country.

He is based in New York City and is the 2025 recipient of the Silurians Press Club Award for his local reporting in Manhattan. His work has appeared in Time Out, Byline, Brooklyn Magazine, Straus News, and others.

He can be reached on email, and tips can be sent via Signal to garrettowen.05

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The best albums of the year (so far): Music to stop the doomscrolling

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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testifies during a House Select Intelligence Committee hearing on March 19, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Trump’s national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard resigns

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In June 2025, Trump Mobile began pre-orders for their new "patriotic" gold phone. Almost a year later, customers are still waiting for their orders. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)

The Trump phone is here. Critics say it’s junk

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An aerial view shows Alan Montag, a third-generation Iowa farmer, planting soybeans on farmland he leases on May 06, 2026 near West Bend, Iowa. As the spring planting season moves into full swing, farmers are facing big spikes in fuel and fertilizers costs overs last spring due to the war with Iran. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Trump’s Iran war is pushing American farmers to the brink

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Jim O’Neill & U.S. National Science Foundation building (Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Alex Wong / Department of Health and Human Services)

Trump’s pick for science director: a Silicon Valley investor with no science background

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President Donald Trump speaks during an event with the Artemis II astronauts in the Oval Office of the White House on April 29, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump’s latest science purge could bring major risks, experts say

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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth looks on during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the Department of Defense budget request for Fiscal Year 2027 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on April 30, 2026. (Photo by Alex Wroblewski / AFP via Getty Images)

Republican lawmakers increasingly concerned over Hegseth’s ideological military

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The conflict in the Middle East has hit the global fuel and fertilizer markets that, in turn, have increased farmers' costs right as planting season begins. (Mark Mirko/Connecticut Public via Getty Images)

Trump’s $12B farm aid was meant as relief. The Iran war is wiping it out

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InfoWars founder Alex Jones speaks to the media outside Waterbury Superior Court during his trial on September 21, 2022 in Waterbury, Connecticut. (Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images)

“Fraud!”: Alex Jones spirals on social media as The Onion prepares to take over Infowars

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies during a hearing of the House Education And Workforce Committee on Capitol Hill on April 17, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

RFK Jr.’s medical racism is to be expected

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Former Virginia Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Former Virginia lt. governor killed wife in murder-suicide while their children were home: police

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White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought testifies before the House Budget Committee at the U.S. Capitol on April 15, 2026 in Washington, DC. Vought is testifying on President Trump's FY2027 budget request. ((Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images))

“Never seen spending like this”: House Dems grill Vought on war spending

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A ship is seen in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Sharjah the day after the failure of US-Iran peace talks on April 13, 2026. The failure of US-Iran peace talks has left the US President with several unpalatable options, as analysts say his order to blockade the strategic Strait of Hormuz could further complicate his next move on April 12, 2026. Any hopes that US Vice President would emerge from the marathon day of negotiations with top Iranian officials with a deal to end a war that has rippled across the Middle East were dashed when he left hosts Pakistan emptyhanded. (Photo by AFP/Getty Images)

Chinese oil tanker breaks US blockade in Strait of Hormuz

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Pope Leo XIV responds to questions regarding US President Donald Trump's recent statements during the flight to Algeria on April 13, 2026 in Algiers, Algeria. (Photo by Matteo Pernaselci - Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images)

Catholics warn of serious juncture as Trump targets Pope Leo XIV

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Melania Trump attends the premiere of her documentary "Melania" at the Kennedy Center (Craig Hudson/Variety via Getty Images)

“Completely false”: Melania Trump denies any “relationship” to Jeffrey Epstein

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Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims in St. Peter's Square on Oct. 11, 2025. (ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)

“Reasonable discussion”: Pentagon denies reports that official threatened Pope Leo

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The Artemis II crew snapped a photo of the moon as it drew close in the window of the Orion spacecraft on April 6, 2026. (Image Credit: NASA)

Trump’s race to the moon is about dominance over China, not discovery

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Vice President JD Vance and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban address the media during a joint press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Budapest, Hungary, on April 7, 2026. (Photo by Balint Szentgallay/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

“Will you stand for Western civilization?”: Vance demands Hungary reelect Viktor Orbán

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President Donald Trump takes the stage during a rally with U.S. Army troops on June 10, 2025 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“An out-of-touch plea for more money”: Trump seeks $1.5 trillion for new defense budget

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President Donald Trump speaks about the Iran war from the Cross Hall of the White House on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool via Getty Images)

Trump is considering a ground war in Iran. Experts say he should walk away

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President Donald Trump speaks during his meeting with Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at Winfield House, London on December 3, 2019. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP via Getty Images)

“They weren’t there for us”: Trump vows to leave NATO after allies refuse to enter Iran War

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A warehouse purchased by the Department of Homeland Security that is slated to become an immigration detention facility is seen on March 10, 2026 in Williamsport, Maryland. DHS spent $102.4 million earlier this year to buy the 830,000-square foot warehouse in an industrial park "to provide short-term housing for individuals in immigration custody awaiting immigration processing and related administrative procedures," according to a DHS notice. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Dozens of lawmakers to investigate companies building Trump’s detention centers

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President Donald Trump at the "Shield of the Americas" Summit at Trump National Doral in Miami, Florida, March 7, 2026. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump and Latin allies push rebrand of failed War on Drugs

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Attorney General Pam Bondi attends a press briefing held at the White House February 20, 2026 in Washington. (Photo by Aaron Schwartz/Getty Images)

“Damning evidence”: Trump’s DOJ shares memo alleging Trump took docs related to business interests

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