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Even Don Winslow's mob characters wouldn't vote for Donald Trump

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...

07.04.2024 20

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"Willing to kill": CNN’s Jim Sciutto on Putin, Trump and the threat of world war

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,...

13.03.2024 20

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America in 2024: Blind, blundering Colossus on a downward slide

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...

04.03.2024 40

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Joe Biden v. Vladimir Putin: This week's dismal propaganda war had no winners

At one point in Tucker Carlson’s 127-minute “interview” with Vladimir Putin last week — which was more like a tendentious, digressive history...

11.02.2024 7

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"There's a real risk they get away with it": Lawrence Lessig on how to steal the 2024 election

Maybe this is reassuring, and maybe it isn't: Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig, a renowned constitutional scholar, has undertaken a detailed...

30.01.2024 10

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Never mind Hitler: "Late Fascism" is here, and it doesn't need Hugo Boss uniforms

Donald Trump’s name appears only a couple of times in “Late Fascism,” the dense, concise and intellectually ambitious new book from Italian...

21.01.2024 70

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Israel's "heavy cost" in Gaza: 15 soldiers killed this weekend

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...

24.12.2023 7

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Donald Trump asks appeals court to toss Jan. 6 indictment

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...

24.12.2023 4

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Naomi Klein on her "Doppelganger" — the "other Naomi" — and navigating the far-right mirror universe

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...

12.12.2023 3

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Jon Stewart for president? Last-ditch campaign hopes to escape Biden-Trump nightmare

Democrats are worried about the polls, to put it mildly. But let's look past "Democrats," an increasingly incoherent political grouping almost...

03.12.2023 8

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My mother, the debutante Communist: An American family story of love, loss and J. Edgar Hoover

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...

26.11.2023 9

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Joe Biden at history's crossroads: Is backing Bibi's Gaza war a fatal mistake?

Joe Biden was the Democratic Party’s duct-tape solution to a national emergency, the compromise candidate who was almost everyone’s second (or...

18.11.2023 10

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"We've got a Marvel movie here": Stephen Gyllenhaal reframes the not-for-profit battle for justice

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...

30.10.2023 7

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Jim Jordan's weekend plan: Wrestle his foes into submission

Opinions among the political-observer class vary greatly as to whether Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, House Republicans' latest pick for the speakership,...

15.10.2023 4

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Louvre Museum and Palace of Versailles evacuated; Paris under terror alert

Two of France's biggest cultural landmarks and tourist attractions, the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Palace of Versailles, were evacuated on...

14.10.2023 9

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Overloaded Gaza hospitals short of power, fuel, medicine; may be forced to shut down

Palestinian health officials told CNN on Saturday that Gaza hospitals are struggling to deal with large numbers of casualties from Israeli attacks and...

14.10.2023 9

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Childhood's end: Sweet, innocent Kevin McCarthy faces the flames

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...

22.09.2023 1

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Is Democrats' Biden angst real — and is it even about Joe Biden?

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...

19.09.2023 2

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Donald Trump feeds on human vanity — and as always, the media can't resist

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...

18.09.2023 2

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Trump's core strategy is to spread chaos and confusion — duh! Is it working?

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...

15.09.2023 10

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"You ran and hid under the bed": Kari Lake gets testy with Blake Masters in Ariz. GOP feud: report

According to a report in the Daily Beast (from former Salon reporter Zachary Petrizzo), there is mounting evidence that the two defeated Republicans...

12.09.2023 8

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