The Trump administration keeps borrowing ancient prestige to make its brutality look noble ...

Steve Kornacki is a national political correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC. Previously, he hosted “Up with Steve Kornacki” and was a co-host on MSNBC’s ensemble show “The Cycle.” He has written for ...

Sophia A. McClennen is Professor of International Affairs and Comparative Literature at the Pennsylvania State University. She writes on the intersections between culture, politics, and society. Her ...

Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t win last week’s election in Israel. But he didn’t exactly lose it either. The real loser may have been Israel’s fragile democracy, already corrupted from within, perhaps past ...

The Since You Asked advice column by Cary Tennis ran in Salon.com from Oct. 17, 2001 to Oct. 1, 2013, and can be found in its entirety in Salon’s archives. The column now continues on Cary’s own site.

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