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Author Stephen King signs copies of his new book 'Revival: A Novel' at Book People on November 15, 2014 in Austin, Texas. (Rick Kern/WireImage/Getty)

King demanded "Long Walk" be violent

Alex Galbraith

The author agreed to the film adaptation on one condition: it had to be bloody

Samuel Blenkin as Boy Kavalier in "Alien: Earth" (FX)

The boy genius with a foot on our necks

Melanie McFarland

"Alien: Earth" CEO Boy Kavalier is the natural evolution of the tech oligarchs currently walking all over us

A view of chairs and a newly paved Rose Garden at the White House on Aug. 19, 2025. (Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump trashes Rose Garden contractors

Alex Galbraith

The president asked if the people who remade the Rose Garden for him were "stupid" in a post to Truth Social

After a few days of online speculation, President Trump appears alive with family at a golf outing and online with rapid social media posts. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP / Getty Images)

No, Trump isn’t dead

CK Smith

President Trump plays golf, posts AI-generated videos, shows he remains active amid social media rumors

(Illustration by Salon / Kate Green / Daniel Grizelj / Getty Images))

How Swifties will take over sourdough

Ashlie D. Stevens

Bread is Taylor Swift's latest baking obsession — and her fans are ready to follow her lead, loaf by loaf

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shakes hands with President Donald Trump at the White House on Feb. 13, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images))

RFK Jr. is strangling public health

Heather Digby Parton

But the demise of American leadership in science didn't begin with him

.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro delivers remarks with President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at the White House on Aug. 11, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Fox News star flounders in serving Trump

Sophia Tesfaye

Jeanine Pirro’s failure to indict several high-profile cases shows the cracks in Trump’s DC takeover

Armed members of the National Guard patrol on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 26, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Troops in the streets: A short history

Andrew O'Hehir

Trump isn't the first president to send troops into American cities as political theater: But there's a difference

Lisa DeNell Cook, during a hearing ahead of her appointment to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Image)

Fired Fed governor just might beat Trump

Sabrina Haake

Lisa Cook is refusing to back down from her firing without cause

Federal agents on an armored vehicle, Los Angeles, July 7, 2025. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)

Donald Trump's theater of cruelty

Andrea Mazzarino - TomDispatch.com

When Trump talked about "American carnage," he meant it — that's what he and his supporters want

Following the DC takeover, Trump sets his eye on other blue cities, especially the "sanctuary cities." In response, DOJ staff are resigning in protest. (MEHMET ESER / Getty Images)

Trump’s DOJ power play fuels revolt

CK Smith

New DOJ directive on sanctuary cities sparks internal revolt, prosecutors warn politics not law drive key decisions

Senator Bernie Sanders (R) writes an op-ed in The New York Times calling for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his controversial decisions at the CDC. (Tasos Katopodi / Lisa Lake / Getty Images / Salon Staff)

Sanders calls for RFK Jr. to resign

CK Smith

Sanders’ op-ed details RFK Jr.'s firing of CDC leadership, dismantling vax advisory boards, defunding mRNA research

Protests over the states' attempts to redistrict to try to lean the Midterms towards their parties. (John Whitney / NurPhoto / Getty Images)

Maps, money, midterms: Gerrymander 2025

CK Smith

Redistricting fights erupt as Texas and Missouri advance GOP-favoring maps, California pushes to become more blue

(L/R) Food and Drug Administration Commissioner (FDA) Martin Makary, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins eat ice cream at the end of a news conference at the USDA headquarters building in Washington, DC. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty)

RFK Jr.'s full-fat crusade

Joy Saha

Kennedy’s push for whole milk could change school lunches and the nation’s rules for what counts as “healthy"

Rep. Marc LaHood, R-San Antonio, looks at a congressional redistricting map during debate of a congressional redistricting plan in the House Chamber at the Capitol in Austin. (Photo by Jay Janner/Getty Images)

Do Texas maps offer hope to Dems?

Russell Payne

New House maps in Texas are meant to help GOP in DC — but they could benefit Democrats in big statewide races

New poll says 3 of 4 Americans believe democracy is at risk and trust their political leaders even less. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP / Getty Images)

Trump is conservatism’s realization

Chauncey DeVega

He gave the GOP permission to be themselves, says historian Allan Lichtman

Law enforcement officers search the neighborhood after a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minn. on Aug. 27, 2025. (Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images)

GOP transphobia won't stop gun violence

Nick Fulton

Fearmongering and scapegoating do nothing for community safety

Big brother electronic eye, concept (Getty Images/ValeryBrozhinsky)

When the government can see everything

Nicole M. Bennett - The Conversation

Palantir's opacity makes oversight difficult and mistakes and biases can affect countless people

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference at Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on August 8, 2024. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

"Alligator Alcatraz" may cost Fla. $218M

Blaise Malley

The Everglades detention center has faced legal challenges over environmental damage and detainee conditions.

Pickle lemonade (Anna Pervova/ Getty Images )

Pickle lemonade is the drink of summer

Joy Saha

Tangy, sweet and a little briny, this is the unexpected summer sip everyone’s talking about

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on February 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump sets up likely government shutdown

Blaise Malley

Trump's bid to claw back $4.9 billion in aid allocated by Congress tees up big legal challenge

Hostess snack cakes (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Hostess recalls snack over possible mold

Joy Saha

The company is urging consumers who purchased the recalled snack cakes not to consume them

Raw Shrimp (Getty Images/Claudia Totir)

FDA recalls radioactive Walmart shrimp

Francesca Giangiulio

Shrimp from multiple recalls tied to an Indonesian supplier may carry cesium-137, a radioactive isotope

Former Vice President Kamala Harris speaks in Rankin, Pennsylvania on November 4, 2024. (REBECCA DROKE/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump revokes Harris’ protection detail

Blaise Malley

The move comes just ahead of Harris' national book tour

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