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“We Will Be Taking Kharg Island” — Trump Threatens Invasion of Iran
President Donald Trump said he has reversed plans to launch a massive attack on Iran Thursday night, mere hours after stating that he intended to […]
Trump’s Deportation Machine Is Still Targeting Pro-Palestinian Protesters
An immigration judge has ordered the deportation of Columbia University graduate student Mohsen Mahdawi, who is Palestinian, to Jordan in a legal filing published Wednesday. […]
GOP candidate doubles down on promise to hire anti-Semitic MAGA podcaster
A GOP candidate for governor in Colorado doubled down on his shocking promise to hire a MAGA podcaster with anti-Semitic views. Republican Scott Bottoms claimed […]
‘Buyer’s remorse era’: Jen Psaki tracks the real-time collapse of Trump’s coalition
President Donald Trump‘s coalition is falling apart in earnest as more and more of his voters start to break away, MS NOW’s Jen Psaki said […]
The Military Budget Is Twice as Big as Social Security’s Projected Shortfall
The release of the 2026 Social Security Trustees Report got the usual suspects (aka “very serious people”) genuflecting about the large projected shortfall. As of 2034, the […]
White House Refuses To Say Why Trump Is Being Examined By Dozens Of Specialists
It is becoming more difficult for the White House to hide Donald Trump’s apparent decline. From doing most of his events sitting down to having […]
House Republicans Keep Not Showing Up And Putting Democrats In The Majority
In what feels like a sneak preview of January 2027, Democrats have found themselves in the House majority multiple times as many Republicans have stopped […]
Karmelo Anthony and the Futility of Claiming Self-Defense While Black
Last spring, during a track meet at a Texas high school, 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony stabbed and killed Austin Metcalf, a white student and fellow athlete […]
Editor’s Notes: Entering the Circular Firing Squad
Today, we published the second Alan Elrod article in a week on the toxic politics surrounding the Democratic candidate for Maine’s Senate seat, Graham Platner. […]
Sportswashed: FIFA’s Long Love Affair With Authoritarians
The last major tournament staged by FIFA, the body behind the World Cup, was last summer’s Club World Cup—an international tournament where Donald Trump crashed […]
White House targeted Mukesh Ambani. Then, he went into business with the Trumps
In late November in Jamnagar, India, the scions of two of the most powerful families in the world stood face-to-face. On one side was 30-year-old […]
FIFA Peace Prize Recipient Vows to Hit Iran ‘VERY HARD’ on First Night of World Cup
On Thursday, President Donald Trump said that the US would strike Iran “VERY HARD TONIGHT,” in a bid to “assume total control of their Oil […]
‘Gnats will swarm’: Weather forecast perfect for bugs to take over Trump’s UFC fight
The weather forecast for Trump’s White House UFC fight on Sunday looks perfect — for gnats. UFC Freedom 250 kicks off at 8 p.m. ET […]
Trump abruptly backs down on bombing threat
President Donald Trump called off his threatened strike on Iran. The 79-year-old president announced Thursday morning on his Truth Social website that he planned to […]
Beyond Orgasm: OneTaste Case Is About Freedom of Conscience, Says European Religious Freedom Group
A European religious freedom group is slamming the prosecution of OneTaste founder Nicole Daedone and former executive Rachel Cherwitz. The group, CAP LC—official (French) name […]
The Culture of Sexual Violence in the Department of Homeland Security
Dozens of federal immigration agents have been arrested — and in some cases, convicted — of crimes related to sexual and gender-based violence, according to […]
Can the worst World Cup ever find a way to redeem itself?
By the time this article appears on Salon, the men’s national teams of Mexico and South Africa will be almost ready to take the field […]
GOP’s bogus claims of fraud pose a dire threat to democracy
We should have known what was going to happen all the way back in 2016 when Donald Trump won the election after refusing to say, during […]
My Half-Baked Attempt to Cook Through the World Cup
I can’t really say why I decided to cook, or otherwise procure, a dish representing every nation at the World Cup, except that I thought […]