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Trump's Venezuelan oil rush is doomed

One industry expert said Trump's oil dreams are less about economic prudence and more about distracting the public

Salon · Jan 10

New ICE video shows Good's last words

New video recorded by ICE officer Jonathan Ross shows new angle of deadly shooting

Salon · Jan 9

America reaches its breaking point

In Minneapolis and Venezuela, the Trump administration villainizes America's neighbors — and its own citizens

Salon · Jan 9

War is fashionable again for the GOP

The right's detour into pacifism under Trump was never going to stick

Salon · Jan 8

America needs a moral reckoning in 2026

Defeating Trumpism requires fluency in moral language

Salon · Jan 8

Navigating the worst flu season in years

A mutated flu strain is pummeling patients. Avoiding getting sick won't be easy

Salon · Jan 8

MAGA wants to be a colonial power

First Venezuela, now Greenland: Trump is promoting an international Manifest Destiny updated for the 21st century

Salon · Jan 7

Sorry, GOP. There's no Christian revival

Republicans are betting the midterms on mass conversions that aren't happening

Salon · Jan 7

Trump's Surgeon General pick is "grift"

Casey Means’ promotion of supplements and pseudoscience worry medical professionals

Salon · Jan 7

An exhausted strongman invades Venezuela

Trump's political style requires force and swagger. His "splendid little war" was meant to prove he still has both

Salon · Jan 6