More schmaltzy melodramas, please! The latest Colleen Hoover adaptation shows how mid-budget tearjerkers can still draw audiences Salon · Mar 19
How to spring clean your kitchen A practical, guilt-free guide to resetting your kitchen in a single weekend — no overhauls required Salon · Mar 19
“America First” becomes America alone The nation’s allies are refusing to help in Iran, leaving the president increasingly isolated on the world stage Salon · Mar 19
Trump’s shoe gifts keep Cabinet in line The Florsheim presents aren’t about style — they reveal the mechanics of MAGA authoritarianism and if it can endure Salon · Mar 19
Baseball resists the war mindset Team USA’s rah-rah, military-inflected approach clashed with a sport built on looseness — and lost Salon · Mar 18
Irish leader survives Trump ordeal Trump misgenders Ireland's president, rants about "windmills," demands world's gratitude — all in all, it went OK Salon · Mar 18
ICE “course correction”? Mullin isn’t it The department of homeland security shutdown shows Republicans still answer to Stephen Miller Salon · Mar 18
Trump is all in on the SAVE America Act Republicans are pushing to get historically restrictive voter ID bill to the president’s desk Salon · Mar 18
RFK Jr.'s vaccine fight isn't over Kennedy's critics celebrated the ruling, while the Trump administration vowed to overturn it Salon · Mar 18
A sweet Irish potato impostor This candy looks like a potato, tastes like coconut and rarely travels far from Philadelphia Salon · Mar 17
Trump to media: Cheer the war — or else The president and FCC Chair Brendan Carr are threatening journalists and broadcasters for their Iran coverage Salon · Mar 17
Even MAGA country is protesting Trump New research shows a small but growing protest movement in areas that voted overwhelmingly for the president Salon · Mar 17
Big money shapes Illinois Senate primary Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi has raised much more cash than Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton and other primary challengers Salon · Mar 17
Trump is weaponizing climate change The Iran war shows how fossil fuels, conflict and planetary crisis are now inseparable Salon · Mar 17
Salon · Mar 16 Iran exposes Vance and Rubio's rivalry The widening Middle East war has made it clear that Republicans learned nothing from Democrats' political missteps
Salon · Mar 16 Draft talk returns to Washington Leavitt’s comments about a possible draft hint at something far more plausible: expanded presidential powers
Salon · Mar 16 DHS funding lapse fuels domestic fears Some worry the partial shutdown leaves the U.S. vulnerable amid the war with Iran
Salon · Mar 15 Horror's crucial less-is-more lesson A24's latest chiller is a master class in getting under the skin — until it falls back on old tricks
Salon · Mar 15 How to become a potluck person A guide to hosting — or showing up to — the modern potluck without the awkwardness
Salon · Mar 15 When a narcissist led the world into war Kaiser Wilhelm II was an erratic despot known for unhinged foreign policy schemes. The result was catastrophe
Salon · Mar 15 Trump's Strait of Hormuz problem Oil prices surge as the Trump administration shows no clear plan for the world’s most critical shipping lane
Salon · Mar 15 The modern prophecy behind the Iran war Religious leaders warn that apocalyptic beliefs might outweigh the nuclear taboo
Salon · Mar 14 "The Murdochs" is a messier "Succession" Netflix's strangely entertaining new docuseries explains the ascendance of Fox News in the age of Trump
Salon · Mar 14 Foraging is the new food tourism Travelers are trading restaurant reservations for seaweed hunts, truffle dogs and lionfish dives — ushering in the
Salon · Mar 14 Why the Iran war was inevitable There were many reasons behind Trump's decision to attack — but none of them were about US national security