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Americans of all stripes across the political spectrum have been understandably transfixed by the wave of student protests against the Gaza war that...
Of arms and the man he sings — no, seriously, he does. Don Winslow's latest novel, "City in Ruins," completes his Danny Ryan trilogy, the saga of a...
CNN national security analyst Jim Sciutto showed up at Salon's New York studio by himself, fresh off the train from Washington. He's a genial,...
As Alexis de Tocqueville observed 175 years ago, Americans always think it’s all about them. OK, he didn’t put it exactly that way. But he did say...
At one point in Tucker Carlson’s 127-minute “interview” with Vladimir Putin last week — which was more like a tendentious, digressive history...
Maybe this is reassuring, and maybe it isn't: Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig, a renowned constitutional scholar, has undertaken a detailed...
Donald Trump’s name appears only a couple of times in “Late Fascism,” the dense, concise and intellectually ambitious new book from Italian...
Military officials in Israel reported Sunday that at least 15 soldiers have died in fierce fighting in Gaza this weekend, with Saturday one of the...
Donald Trump's lawyers asked a federal appeals court on Saturday to throw out special counsel Jack Smith's indictment of the former president related...
Naomi Klein's "Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World" is a difficult book to describe. I'll cut to the chase by saying that it stands...
Democrats are worried about the polls, to put it mildly. But let's look past "Democrats," an increasingly incoherent political grouping almost...
The story I want to tell you begins with a woman in a car in the middle of the night, in the middle of the last century. To be specific, it is late in...
Joe Biden was the Democratic Party’s duct-tape solution to a national emergency, the compromise candidate who was almost everyone’s second (or...
Stephen Gyllenhaal has decades of experience as a filmmaker and Hollywood insider. In person he's a charming raconteur who stuck around Salon's New...
Opinions among the political-observer class vary greatly as to whether Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, House Republicans' latest pick for the speakership,...
Two of France's biggest cultural landmarks and tourist attractions, the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Palace of Versailles, were evacuated on...
Palestinian health officials told CNN on Saturday that Gaza hospitals are struggling to deal with large numbers of casualties from Israeli attacks and...
By all appearances, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is not personally corrupt, or at least not in the most familiar sense of that word. Given existing...
Joe Biden became the oldest president in American history on the day he was inaugurated in 2021, two weeks after a mob incited by his immediate...
Donald Trump's widely publicized interview with Kristen Welker, the new host of NBC's "Meet the Press," was simply too boring to watch all the way...
It's never easy, or necessarily possible, to figure out who's winning in Donald Trump's tangles with the law. That's because the rule of law is based...
According to a report in the Daily Beast (from former Salon reporter Zachary Petrizzo), there is mounting evidence that the two defeated Republicans...