Sean Duffy's Great American Road Grift
Salonby Melanie McFarland23 Aug 2026
At least once while watching “The Great American Road Trip,” I found myself wondering what the Founding Fathers would make of all this.
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top 87%What if the fascists win in Germany?
Salonby Andrew O'Hehir23 Aug 2026
When German Chancellor Friedrich Merz finally rose to power in May 2025 after years of political failure and an inconclusive election, he already faced what looked like an impossible situation.
Donald Trump has made the world go nuclear
Salonby Heather Digby Parton23 Aug 2026
Donald Trump has always believed himself to be an expert at what he calls “nuclear,” due to the fact that his uncle, John Trump, was a physicist who taught at MIT.
Hegseth fires "Stars and Stripes" journalists, deepens Pentagon press crackdown
Salonby CK Smith22 Aug 2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth‘s Pentagon has spent months restricting journalists’ access to the military.
Even in loud movies, the power of silence is undeniable
Salonby Melanie McFarland22 Aug 2026
It is bizarre to watch someone like Alan Ritchson follow in the footsteps of Charlie Chaplin. That’s less of a stretch than it seems, I promise. Stick with me.
“I wish I had never supported him”: MTG fires back after Trump's attack on "MAGA losers"
Salonby CK Smith22 Aug 2026
Marjorie Taylor Greene, the former Georgia congresswoman, issued a blistering response Saturday morning after Donald Trump attacked her, Tucker Carlson and Thomas Massie as “LOSERS ALL” in a...
Scott Jennings as press secretary could be Trump's final coup
Salonby Sophia Tesfaye22 Aug 2026
Scott Jennings’ appointment as White House press secretary would not be a surprising turn in Donald Trump’s second administration.
DEA investigates Panettiere's death amid its own fentanyl scandal
Salonby Troy Farah22 Aug 2026
Even as Donald Trump’s war against Iran drags on with no end in sight, let alone any sort of victory for the U.S., there’s another conflict America will definitely never win: the drug war.
Talarico floods Texas airwaves in U.S. Senate race as Paxton, GOP stay quiet
Salonby Gabby Birenbaum22 Aug 2026
WASHINGTON — With under nine weeks to go until early voting begins in Texas’ U.S. Senate race, both Ken Paxton and James Talarico have been campaigning around the state, meeting voters everywhere...
The best band you’re probably not listening to yet
Salonby Kelly McClure21 Aug 2026
If you’ve never heard of the band Black Marble, that should change, and today’s as good a day as any for that to happen, because their new album, “Life in Small Spaces,” was just released on Sacred...
Columbia House closure sparks nostalgia for a bygone music scam
Salonby Alex Galbraith21 Aug 2026
Even if you aren’t old enough to remember the heyday of Columbia House, you’re probably familiar with the scam at its center.
GOP is finally running out of people to blame
Salonby Brian Karem21 Aug 2026
Now that Donald Trump no longer has a White House press secretary with a ready cherubic smile and a ton of snark, we can all see that the paint is peeling off his delusional presidency.
ICE gloves reveal how Trump’s revenge agenda is failing
Salonby Amanda Marcotte21 Aug 2026
Since Markwayne Mullin took over the Department of Homeland Security in March, Immigration and Custom Enforcement has dialed back on the trolling.
Trump's Asia pullback is a gift to China and North Korea
Salonby Troy Farah21 Aug 2026
Donald Trump’s war against Iran is going so well that the U.S. is now yanking the USS George Washington from the western Pacific to relieve the beleaguered USS Abraham Lincoln, which is stationed...
Experts question new Trump admin analysis claiming noncitizens voted in 2020
Salonby Dion Nissenbaum, Votebeat21 Aug 2026
This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access.
Trump admin amps up pressure on Cuba
Salonby Troy Farah21 Aug 2026
The Trump administration announced new sanctions against Cuba on Thursday, threatening to deepen an ongoing economic crisis in the island nation.
Harry and Meghan's UK return tests a press under fire
Salonby Melanie McFarland20 Aug 2026
There can be many reasonable reactions to the surprising news that Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, along with their children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, are returning to Britain.
Jon Ossoff knows what he's doing on the campaign trail
Salonby Jason Kyle Howard20 Aug 2026
It was a punch delivered in Atlanta on Sunday and felt all the way in Washington, smooth and fluid, like one of Sugar Ray Robinson’s left hooks or Muhammad Ali’s left jabs.
"The End of Oak Street" does pastiche right
Salonby Coleman Spilde20 Aug 2026
In 2015’s “Jurassic World” — the first of the “Jurassic Park” franchise’s largely interminable bastard step-children — there’s a moment of action that briefly suggests the film might exist for...
I don't want another restaurant app
Salonby Ashlie D. Stevens20 Aug 2026
The other afternoon, I was trying to take a nap. I had worked late the night before, and dinner was still several hours away, and I had achieved that particular state of adult exhaustion in which...