Republicans are kicking off a gerrymandering arms race that Democrats can’t win, according to the analysis of most election watchers. The question now is whether Democrats can generate enough seats to ...

At the time of the interview, however, he was not in New Jersey at all. Rather, Ciattarelli was in Israel. His Democratic opponent, meanwhile, was appealing to the state’s Black voters, naming ...

The argument is so preposterous it feels unlikely that even this far-right Supreme Court, complete with three justices appointed by President Donald Trump, would struggle to pretend that the mere ...

But as the heads of CPB, PBS and NPR have separately warned, the real loss will be in rural areas like Eureka, California’s KEET-TV. CPB funding accounts for nearly half of its operating budget. The ...

The press has turned scraps into something ceremonial. Even budget dinners, the kind you’d normally rush through, take on the gravity of occasion when they emerge golden, oozing, crisp-edged. We kept ...

But in diplomatic terms, we go back to 1938. Germany said, “Listen, we have all these German citizens living in this new country of Czechoslovakia. They’re not being treated right. We want them to ...

Perhaps no event looms larger than the Beatles’ August 15, 1965, performance at Shea Stadium in front of 55,600 fans. The concert ushered in a new era in rock music in which superstardom was defined ...

Matthew Rozsa is a former Salon staff writer. He received a master's in History from Rutgers-Newark in 2012 and was awarded a science journalism fellowship from the Metcalf Institute in 2022.