salon.comadded August 2026
Salonby Brian Karem24d ago
“This is not who we are.” After every recent political tragedy, from shooting American citizens to killing Iranian schoolchildren, someone always says that: Somehow, it’s not who we really are.
Salonby Amanda Marcotte24d ago
Kash Patel wants to be the White House’s preeminent attack dog. But as usual, he can’t help but break through the fence and run into traffic.
Salonby Alex Galbraith24d ago
If you’ve ever read anything by biographer Robert Caro, you get the feeling that he could wring 100 pages out of what he had for breakfast.
Salonby Eleanor Klibanoff24d ago
After the routing they delivered in the 2024 election, Texas Republicans were on a roll, pushing through conservative priorities, drawing redder congressional maps and excising Democrats from...
Salonby Coleman Spilde24d ago
Tom Cruise is intense. We know this. Whether he’s pressing interviewers about their glibness or just holding eye contact for an inordinate amount of time, Cruise — the last movie star, as he’s been...
Salonby Kristen Lopez24d ago
In a series of now-deleted posts on X, independent film journalist Jeff Sneider expressed frustration about being “ghosted” by the publicity team of “Obsession” breakout star Inde Navarrette.
Salonby Troy Farah25d ago
Sen. Mitch McConnell is back — but is he really? After three months of total absence from the public eye, that’s the question many are asking about the Kentucky Republican.
Salonby Sophia Tesfaye25d ago
This may have been the week that the Trump family’s sprawling and brazen corruption finally broke out of containment, with the level of American kleptocracy in such sharp focus this week that...
Salonby Heather Digby Parton25d ago
Donald Trump recently claimed that when he goes to international gatherings, all the leaders stand up.
Salonby Shefali Luthra25d ago
This story was originally reported by Shefali Luthra of The 19th. Meet Shefali and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy.
Salonby Alex Galbraith25d ago
Looking closely at the top tier of popular music stars is a bit like measuring a coastline. What you thought at first was one solid mass that could be measured from A to B is more like an...
Salonby Francesca Giangiulio26d ago
Before Anthony Bourdain became Anthony Bourdain, he was writing crime novels about cooks. That’s the strange pleasure of “Three Crime Novels,” a new collection of “Bone in the Throat” (1995), “Gone...
Salonby Coleman Spilde26d ago
In one of her new ads for the peer-to-peer sports betting platform Novig, actress Sydney Sweeney — wearing nothing but underwear and a football placed suggestively across her bare chest — turns her...
Salonby Amanda Marcotte26d ago
If there’s ever been anything Donald Trump loves more than gold, it’s a camera. The former reality TV host has willingly debased himself in a myriad of ways — doing an ad for Pizza Hut, shaving...
Salonby Troy Farah26d ago
Humans are probably the only species on Earth that actively fantasizes about its own extinction — and definitely the only one that actively participates in it.
Salonby Troy Farah26d ago
On Tuesday, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., moved to impeach Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth over the war in Iran, introducing a resolution which accuses him of high crimes and misdemeanors.
Salonby Ashlie D. Stevens26d ago
The other day, I grated two enormous zucchini into a bowl containing a quarter-can of pumpkin, brown sugar, cocoa powder and enough chopped bittersweet chocolate to make the whole operation look...
Salonby Dion Nissenbaum, Votebeat26d ago
This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access.
Salonby Melanie McFarland27d ago
On paper, selecting “Law & Order: SVU” star Mariska Hargitay as host of the 2026 Emmys telecast probably made sense.
Salonby Heather Digby Parton27d ago
The definition of a Mafia made man is one who has Italian blood and is formally initiated into the “family,” having sworn an oath of omerta and promising to put the crime family above all else.
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