Barbados The roots of America’s white nationalism reach back to this island’s brutal historySalon - J.M. OpalTourists paddles by near a beach in Bridgetown, Barbados on May 4, 2015. AFP PHOTO/JEWEL SAMAD (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images) (Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images) The vicious ideology
QAnon QAnon is the conspiracy theory that won't die: Here's what they believe, and why they're wrongSalon - Matthew RozsaIf you follow the squeaks and squawks of far-right conspiracy theorists, you have almost certainly encountered QAnon believers — individuals who follow the oft-debunked predictions of an anonymous man
Recession Economist Robert Reich warns of the "sugar high" of "Trumponomics"Salon - Alex HendersonEconomist Robert Reich, who served as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton in the 1990s, has been a blistering critic of the GOP corporate tax cuts passed in late 2017 — often arguing that have
Hong Kong Island Hundreds of thousands protest peacefully against Hong Kong extradition billSalon - Matthew RozsaProtesters chant slogans during a protest on June 12, 2019 in Hong Kong China. (Photo by Anthony Kwan/Getty Images) Hundreds of thousands of people turned out to protest peacefully in Hong Kong as the
Medicare Public option proposals vary from modest to total overhauls — here's what they could look likeSalon - Shira TarloUS Senator Elizabeth Warren (C), Democrat from Massachusetts, speaks with US Senator Bernie Sanders (2nd R), Independent from Vermont, as they discusses Medicare for All legislation on Capitol Hill in
Pete Buttigieg Pete Buttigieg: Voting for Trump in 2020 means "looking the other way on racism"Salon - Matthew RozsaPete Buttigieg holds a town hall meeting in South Bend, Indiana on June 23, 2019. (ABC News) Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana who is running for president in 2020, told CNN's Jake Tapper
El Salvador The case that made an ex-ICE attorney realize the government was relying on false "evidence"Salon - Melissa del BosqueLaura Peña could see that her 36-year-old client was wasting away. Gaunt and haggard after nearly two months in jail, he ran his fingers through his hair and opened his hands to show her the clumps that
Jeffrey Epstein Jeffrey Epstein used his wealth to avoid his prison cell, empty out vending machines while in jailSalon - Matthew RozsaThis July 27, 2006 arrest photo made available by the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office, in Florida, shows Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein was suspected nearly a decade ago of paying for sex with underage girls. The
Alaska Alaska becomes target for GOP's infamous budget mercenarySalon - Lindsay BennettDonna Arduin, director of the Office of Management and Budget, at podium, comments on the governor's state budget vetoes at the state capitol in Juneau, Alaska Friday, June 28, 2019. At right, with Alaska
Bill Maher Rashida Tlaib suggests a boycott of Bill Maher's showSalon - Matthew RozsaRep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., suggested a boycott against HBO host Bill Maher after he denounced the international movement to boycott Israel as a "bullshit purity test by people who want to appear woke
Confederate Monuments Confederate monuments: Where are they now?Salon - Kali HollowayAbout 100 protesters gather at the Jefferson Davis Monument August 19, 2018 in Richmond, Virginia. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) This article was produced by Make It Right, a project of the Independent
Trump University Donald Trump and the Republican Party hate America: It's time to say itSalon - David MasciotraDonald Trump speaks during a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., Thursday, March 28, 2019. (AP/Paul Sancya) Unusual times demand unusual measures. If you value Salon's original reporting and commentary, we you
Fake News The language gives it away: How an algorithm can help us detect fake newsSalon - Fatemeh Torabi AsrHave you ever read something online and shared it among your networks, only to find out it was false? As a software engineer and computational linguist who spends most of her work and even leisure hours
Trump Tariffs Federal Reserve: Trump tariffs hit manufacturers and consumers the hardestSalon - Tom BoggioniU.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference after the G-20 Summit on June 29, 2019 in Osaka, Japan. (Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images) According to a report issued on Friday by the Federal
Trump Administration Federal court dismisses Trump claim that immigrant children aren't entitled to soap and toothbrushesSalon - Jake Johnson<> on November 3, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. (John Moore/Getty Images) This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Feel
Ackerman McQueen Document shows NRA money helped its chief search for a personal mansionSalon - Mike SpiesIn news reports this week, the National Rifle Association’s outside counsel, William A. Brewer III, has insisted that “not a cent” of the nonprofit’s money was “ultimately spent” on a plan to buy a multimillion-dollar
The White House White House is pushing to reauthorize law that allows surveillance on Americans' phone recordsSalon - Cody FenwickU.S. President Donald Trump, left, is flanked by national security adviser John Bolton, right during a press conference after a summit of heads of state and government at NATO headquarters in Brussels,
Puerto Rico Out of the ashes of Puerto Rico’s economy emerges a promising currency for allSalon - Valerie Vande PanneTOPSHOT - Demonstrators wave flags as they participate in a march the day after the governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rossello resigned from his charge in San Juan, on July 25, 2019. - Puerto Rico's embattled
Democrats Does anyone understand the 2020 race? This scholar nailed the blue wave — here's her forecastSalon - Paul RosenbergThese are tough times for independent journalism. If you value Salon's original reporting and commentary, we urge you to support it — by supporting our writers directly. Right here, right now, you can
Democrats Blue Texas, at last? Maybe — but the real fight isn't for the White HouseSalon - David DaleyFILE - In this May 30, 2013 file photo, Texas state Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa looks at maps on display prior to a Senate Redistricting committee hearing in Austin, Texas.(AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) (AP/Eric
Disease The U.S.’s culture of violence is killing us allSalon - César ChelalaThe two recent mass shooting incidents in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, are one more manifestation of a culture of violence that threatens not only people’s lives but also the United States’ future
QAnon Trump's former national security adviser set to speak at event hosted by QAnon conspiracy theoristSalon - Alex HendersonMany right-wing activists avoid discussing the bizarre QAnon conspiracy theory, which claims that: (1) Democrats are involved in an international ring of pedophiles and child sex traffickers, (2) President
Guns It's not Democrats who are making guns a political issue: It's all the dead bodiesSalon - Lucian K. Truscott IVPeople gather at makeshift memorial for the victims of Saturday's mass shooting at a shopping complex in El Paso, Texas, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019. (AP/Andres Leighton) We can’t keep up. We can’t keep up with
United Nations The U.N.'s bleak view of the planet's futureSalon - Terry H. SchwadronIn this Thursday, May 23, 2019 photo, floodwaters overtake a home in Holly Bluff, Mississippi. (AP/Rogelio V. Solis) That we cannot take gun control seriously, that we can’t talk about abortion or race
Politics Leaked emails show GOP lawmaker made videos for extremist groups that provided "biblical training"Salon - Alex HendersonFILE - In this Feb. 8, 2012 file photo Rep. Matt Shea, R-Spokane Valley, speaks about in Olympia, Wash. Newly leaked emails show that Shea, a Republican from Spokane Valley, has had close ties with a that
Rashida Tlaib Netanyahu denounced for barring Muslim Congresswomen Omar and TlaibSalon - Eoin HigginsU.S. Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share
Burnout The answer to work burnout is unionizingSalon - Kayla BladoIt’s Monday morning and your alarm goes off. As you wake up, the dread of going to work creeps in. You’re feeling exhausted, stressed out, underpaid and underappreciated. It's a mindset you can’t shake,
Asia It was more like a couple of Asian decades than a centurySalon - Marshall AuerbackChina's President Xi Jinping (bottom) attends a welcoming ceremony for Colombia's President Ivan Duque (not pictured) outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on July 31, 2019. (Photo by WANG ZHAO
Protest Lou Dobbs: Man who plowed truck into ICE protesters is the real victim, "well within his rights"Salon - Igor DeryshFox Business host Lou Dobbs praised a corrections officer who intentionally plowed his truck into a crowd of protesters outside a Rhode Island ICE facility, saying the attack was justified. A correctional
