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Before human beings used cameras to tell their stories, before books and bards and cave paintings, probably, there was the movie of the mind, the...
Abraham Lincoln referred to it as "the ludicrous incident of sewing up the hogs eyes." "As a youngster he shot a wild turkey and was so disgusted...
For decades, sports have been known as the great unifier. The most racist white men crowd around the TV to gladly cheer on their favorite Black...
This fall season could usher in another round of COVID-19 vaccines. But unlike before, it might be the first time people are injected with a dose...
Failing to cast her vote in the debt ceiling deal that was finalized this week and signed off on by President Biden, Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo....
Could organizations use artificial intelligence language models such as ChatGPT to induce voters to behave in specific ways? Sen. Josh Hawley,...
As I predicted in a previous article for Salon, Donald Trump and his evangelical following are back with a vengeance. Unfortunately, with recent...
Anthropormorphized into a green-clad mountain valley, Taylor Swift sings a new version of her song "Karma," while above her, a cloud shaped into...
President Joe Biden delivered his first televised address from the Oval Office on Friday night to applaud the final result of legislative...
Pterosaurs are perhaps the most popular dinosaur that isn't actually a dinosaur. The massive beasts, whose name is Greek for "winged lizards," are...
In 2000, the American Academy of Dermatology warned Americans : eczema was on the rise. In the warning, the group of dermatologists said that the...
What happened to the promise of 2020? Sure, Donald Trump was booted from the White House that year. But as his current status as the leading...
On Friday night, a two-day trial pertaining to an anti-drag law in Tennessee ended in a big win for the LGBTQ community. In a surprising move...
Fox News hosts and guests have repeatedly peddled false claims about Target selling "tuck-friendly" or "tuck-'em" swimsuits for children as part of...
Allow me to come clean: I worry every time Max Boot vents enthusiastically about a prospective military action. Whenever that Washington Post ...
Food and wine pairing doesn't necessarily require sommelier-level expertise, nor chemist-level abilities to calibrate a wine's acids, tannins, or...
When a friend sent me the trailer for "Bama Rush," Max's documentary about Greek life at the University of Alabama, I watched with an outcast's...
Audio of a 2021 meeting held at Trump's Bedminster golf club — in which he speaks of a classified document pertaining to a potential attack on...
In an unexpected twist that fans of one-handed reads are unlikely to have had on their Bingo cards, E. Jean Carroll is partnering with Mary Trump...
With the official end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, in May the federal government rolled back nearly all benefits that were broadened...
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The 83-year-old Hollywood legend Al Pacino has a baby on the way. His girlfriend, Noor Alfallah, is eight months pregnant, and this revelation has...
When we first meet Jemima Kirke's character Regan in the twisty Apple TV series "City on Fire," she seems an elegantly capable, early 2000s-era...
On Tuesday in New Hampshire, former Gov. Chris Christie is expected to formally announce he's entering the increasingly crowded 2024 Republican...
The Atlanta-area probe of former President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss has expanded to include activities in...
Former President Donald Trump spun wild tales during a Thursday Fox News town hall in Iowa after moderator Sean Hannity vowed not to fact-check his...
Republicans in the House of Representatives on Tuesday requested information from the Department of Justice regarding Special Counsel Jack Smith's...
The Department of Justice informed former Vice President Mike Pence in a letter Thursday night that it will not bring charges against him...
I've been tough on "Top Chef: World All Stars" over the past few weeks — and this episode shows why. When "Top Chef" is good, it's stellar —...
There's always plenty of lively conversation when you work in a kitchen. Everyone loves to share food stories, favorite foods, to debate what's...
Before the Kardashians or the real housewives of Beverly Hills or the elite real estate brokers at The Oppenheim Group attained reality TV stardom,...
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Legal experts compared former President Donald Trump to Richard Nixon after the special counsel team investigating his removal of classified...
Well, it appears that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has survived the tantrum from the right-wing Freedom Caucus members after he made a deal with...
Last week, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis finally announced that he would seek his party's 2024 presidential nomination. The mainstream...
Viktor Medvedchuk was the Rupert Murdoch of Ukraine. He ran a right-wing television network and owned TV stations across the country, while...
It is tempting to attribute the scandals now enveloping two right wing icons — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Texas Attorney General...
Acclaimed pop star Sia found herself in the middle of a negative publicity whirlwind in 2021, when her filmmaking debut "Music" was widely panned...
A woman from Tennessee was forced to endure a dangerous ectopic pregnancy due to the state's draconian abortion laws, resulting in her having to...
Donald Trump, the traitor ex-president who attempted a coup on Jan. 6, a confirmed sex predator, an indicted felon who has been arrested for his...
While speaking at an Air Force Academy commencement ceremony in Colorado on Thursday, President Biden tripped over a sandbag left on the stage and...
Last Thursday, another group of orcas (Orcinus orca), also known as killer whales, rammed into a sailboat off the southern coast of Spain and...
Federal prosecutors obtained an audio recording in which former President Donald Trump admits retaining a classified Pentagon document about a...
Midway through the recently completed third season of "Ted Lasso," Jason Sudeikis' existentially adrift football coach stumbles into a revelation...
For months, former President Donald Trump's legal team has been embroiled in an internal conflict and deep distrust that ultimately led to the...
On Wednesday evening the House finally passed debt ceiling legislation — over the heads of the members of the Freedom Caucus, who threatened "a...
It is, of course, deeply ahistorical and borderline offensive to call the founding fathers of the American republic a bunch of "woke" liberals. Yes,...
After securing a debt ceiling agreement that caps federal spending and threatens food aid for hundreds of thousands of poor adults, House...
"I didn't go to Second City. I didn't study improv," says Leslie Bibb. Yet from her roles as Carley Bobby in Will Ferrell's "Talladega Nights" to...
Now that some ultra-conservatives have vowed to boycott Chick-fil-A over the company's corporate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, Fox...
Former President Donald Trump admitted to holding onto a classified Pentagon document about a potential attack on Iran, according to an audio...
Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday fumed over a damning report that special counsel Jack Smith has obtained an audio recording of him...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' campaign team is bizarrely refusing to confirm the correct pronunciation of the presidential contender's last name. The...
Right-wing Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., revealed that she gets disappointed when her office receives "a real" call from constituents as opposed to...
On Wednesday, a Los Angeles jury found Danny Masterson guilty on two counts of forcible rape, compelling online critics to address the actor's...
In the early 2000s and after a three-year, debilitating battle with arthritis, I met a kindred spirit named Melina. She was a talented vegetarian/...
Food insecurity — difficulties getting enough nutritious food for a healthy life — is a growing problem globally. It has been linked to many...
One of the most common stereotypes about the human past is that men did the hunting while women did the gathering. That gendered division of labor,...
Last Thursday, Stuart Rhodes, the founder of the right-wing paramilitary "militia" group the Oath Keepers, was sentenced to 18 years in prison by a...
By the time you read this, it's possible that the debt ceiling saga will finally be over. Senate leaders have said they have the votes to pass it...
Far-right House Republicans on Tuesday fumed over House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's, R-Calif., debt ceiling deal with President Joe Biden — and some...
In a newly obtained audio recording that's now in the hands of Federal prosecutors, former President Trump is heard weighing the dangers of making...
The number of Democratic lawmakers who said they plan to oppose legislation to raise the debt ceiling steadily grew on Wednesday, due to...
I t could have been a scene from Jurassic Park: ten golden lumps of hardened resin, each encasing insects. But these weren't from the age of the...
On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump announced on his campaign site that, if he's elected in 2024, on his first day back in the White House...
The current price of two weeks' worth of groceries for a family of three is about $72k. OK, maybe it doesn't cost much, but I'm not the only one...
After discovering a months-old update on Chick-fil-A's website about the company's diversity and inclusion initiatives, some ultra-conservative...
On Wednesday, anonymous sources close to Mike Pence leaked news of the possibility of a 2024 presidential campaign announcement from the former...
An employee at Mar-a-Lago who assisted with moving boxes of documents last June was questioned regarding his behavior in relation to a government...
Former President Donald Trump is facing a deluge of criticism after he attacked Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany, his former White House press...
A former Senate aide who in 2020 accused President Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her has relocated to Russia ahead of the upcoming election and...
Special counsel Jack Smith's team investigating former President Donald Trump's efforts to remain in office after the 2020 election subpoenaed two...
After returning to work Tuesday following Congress' long weekend recess, a House Republican complained that legislators only have 72 hours to...
The artificial intelligence world faced a swarm of stinging backlash Tuesday morning, after more than 350 tech executives and researchers released...
"Sensually perfect" is how Salon Food columnist Bibi Hutchings describes the food of Rebecca Barron, her friend and the James Beard Award-nominated...
If you've been into a fish and chip shop in the last twelve months, you may well have seen a notice tacked to the wall about the impact of the...
A free trade agreement between Australia and the United Kingdom begins on Wednesday. When it was announced in 2021, then-prime ministers Boris...
If you were to take a boat into the middle of the Pacific Ocean, you would eventually stumble into a submarine fracture zone that is twice the size...
It was a really bad week for America's wetlands and for flood-prone neighborhoods in New Jersey. The same ultra-right-wing Supreme Court that...
When Japan invited the leaders of Brazil, India and Indonesia to attend the G7 summit in Hiroshima, there were glimmers of hope that it might be a...
Since its founding in 2016, Elon Musk's neurotechnology company Neuralink has had the ambitious mission to build a next-generation brain implant...
[The following is excerpted and adapted from David Barsamian's recent interview with Norman Solomon at AlternativeRadio.org .] David Barsamian:...
Over the last couple of weeks, we watched as the FDA approval of mifepristone hung in a precarious state. Finally, the Supreme Court issued an...
Newly announced GOP presidential candidate and Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R) signed a bill into state law on Thursday that protects private...
Children in Western countries have long been taught the virtues of recycling. Because plastic products never decompose on their own, kids are...