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China eradicated COVID-19 within months. Why won't America learn from them?

The US has vilified China so much during the COVID-19 era that it is ignoring what the country has done right

Talking to the boogaloo, part 2: Exclusive conversations with a would-be revolutionary

Salon's boogaloo informant talks up BLM alliance, disavows Gretchen Whitmer plot. But he still wants destruction

Todd Rundgren on no more Trump songs, his high-tech «spectacle» of a tour, and the new Sparks collab

The music legend talks about writing songs and everything fans can expect from his multiple-city virtual tour

Our moral fate: Allen Buchanan on escaping tribalism

As human politics becomes increasingly polarized, a philosopher explains how to escape the gyre of tribalism

How patent laws are hindering the fight against COVID-19

A handful of pharmaceutical companies use patent laws to limit supply when the world most needs their drugs

Joe Biden needs to emulate FDR and LBJ — but so far, he's not even close

Like the two legendary liberal presidents, Biden faces massive, historic challenges. Is he up to the task?

My night in Judgement House, the church play about hell that made me a teenage born-again zealot

An evangelical theater experience like «Sleep No More» meets Dante's «Inferno,» as interpreted by Franklin Graham

A love letter to all the produce I haven’t picked

I know one day I'll be back in my beloved produce department, palming every last avocado and smelling all the plums

Julie Delpy on breaking motherhood taboos in «My Zoe» & seeing the last of the «Before» franchise

«I could kill them with my teeth,» the director, writer & star said on «Salon Talks» of anyone threatening her kids

I grew up in the city, not hiking or camping. As an adult, I want my family to enjoy nature's beauty

As a kid, nature felt far from my city neighborhood. I've made it a priority for my kids to experience it

America's power grid is broken. Here's how to fix it

The US electrical grid is an engineering marvel that isn't being managed well nor maintained, engineers say

Talking to the boogaloo: An exclusive series of conversations with a would-be revolutionary

A member of the semi-ironic militia movement speaks out: «We hate Trump. We hate Biden. We hate the entire system»

The Capitol assault was an act of expressive politics. A backlash is surely coming—against the left

With roots in the 1960s, this now-prominent form of protest politics has long proven futile and counterproductive

«WandaVision» gave us the MCU's first superpowered Black woman, which is long overdue yet not enough

My love of superheroes began with «Power Rangers,» but I've waited decades to see the hero I wanted to be on-screen

Meet the spouses whose marriages were destroyed by QAnon

A therapist who specializes in cult recovery says he's «never seen anything like this before»

Republicans roll out “tidal wave of voter suppression”: 253 restrictive bills in 43 states

GOP is using Trump’s “big lie” to push a historic “contraction of voting rights," says Democratic lawyer Marc Elias

Biden’s reckless Syria bombing: This is not the diplomacy he promised

This ill-advised attack, at a delicate moment in U.S.-Iran relations, sends exactly the wrong signal to the world

Hulu's irksome «United States vs. Billie Holiday» is a stunning, soul-wrenching debut for Audra Day

The star's passion carries Lee Daniels' latest film, which never allows the audience to fully connect with her song

Vaccine «scavengers» are waiting outside clinics for leftover doses — and their strategy often works

People are lining up at vaccination sites hoping to get a leftover dose that would otherwise go in the trash

“I Care A Lot” is a stinging indictment of neoliberal “girlboss” feminism

Rosamund Pike’s character Marla Grayson justifies her exploitative con as a crusade against men

How McDonald's recouped its image with a catchy jingle that sparked a sonic branding revolution

«Twenty Thousand Hertz» host Dallas Taylor discusses how «I'm Lovin' It» came to be & the future of sonic logos

How the abuse of Britney Spears led to the GOP's war on women

The obsession with Britney Spears' virginity was the first shot in a 20-year war on millennial women

Debunked: Republicans are not beholden to GOP voters

The Biden administration's Covid relief plan is backed by wide majorities of Americans — including Trump voters

Conservatives are the new «good Germans,» enabling and defending Trump's crimes

Whatever «conservative» once meant in American politics, it's now just a flimsy rhetorical shield for fascism

Republican hypocrisy is not a good reason to support Neera Tanden

For the left, Tanden's «mean tweets» are not the problem. Her long-term crusade to torpedo progressive causes is

Fox News is stoking anti-immigration hysteria again. Are we ready to defeat it this time?

Mainstream media keeps getting suckered by Trump-style rhetoric on immigration. But there's a better way

Donald Trump is an attention addict — his appearance at CPAC will offer the latest proof

America has indulged one man's attention addiction for far too long. Let's drive him out of politics forever

DeSantis touts lack of vaccine plan as study finds more than 95,000 Floridians may die without one

Gov. Ron DeSantis defended Florida’s open-ended vaccine plan. Then a data firm predicted «complete chaos»

Michelle Obama & Breonna Taylor portraitist on Black artists: «We've been here all along»

Amy Sherald appeared on «Salon Talks» to discuss HBO Max's new doc «Black Art» & the importance of Black curators

«Pathogen porn»: Two papers about a New York coronavirus strain spark a scientific war of words

A new hybrid virus appearing in the New York region has prompted a debate over pandemic reporting

Trump's failed coup continues: CPAC set to be a celebration of the Capitol insurrection

CPAC sets out to defend Trump's coup, celebrate his election lies and paint him as the real victim

What planet is NATO living on? Because it's no longer useful on this one

U.S.-ruled alliance founded to fight communism has long outlived its usefulness, and is now a dangerous war machine

Ted Cruz has raided campaign funds for travel «security» (but apparently not in Cancún)

Cruz appears to have tapped into campaign and Senate funds for security costs, including for personal travel

If Perseverance finds life on Mars, this is what it will look like

No, it won't be little green men – here's what the rover is apt to see if it finds signs of life

GOP is still gaslighting about the Capitol riot: Trump's allies claim coup and QAnon never happened

After the riot comes the gaslighting

Fox News' COVID denialism now threatens U.S. vaccine rollout — but its roots are deeper

Beyond Fox News or Trump, the GOP has a bone-deep antipathy to any collective attempt to extend a helping hand

Pro-Trump Black group that solicited foreign investors is now under FBI investigation

Probe's scope includes events reported in Salon's investigation into the group that gave cash to Black voters

The GOP's Ayn Rand death cult: Trump's party is literally killing the American people

Imagining themselves as virile heroes from Ayn Rand's terrible books, Republicans have become the pro-death party

Bernie Sanders breaks with Democrats to vote against a Joe Biden Cabinet nominee

Sen. Sanders was just one of seven senators to object to Tom Vilsack’s confirmation as Agriculture Secretary
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