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Members of the National Guard patrol near the Capitol and Union Station on Aug. 14, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trump's DC actions scratch an old itch

Sabrina Haake
Video of Amy Cooper with her dog in Central Park was widely shared on social media on Monday. (Twitter/@melodyMcooper)

"I'm not a racist," Amy Cooper says

Roger Sollenberger
Aunjanue Ellis and Ethan Herisse in "When They See Us" (Atsushi Nishijima/Netflix)

"When They See Us" plaintiff settlement

Tambay Obenson - Indiewire
Linda Fairstein attends the God's Love We Deliver's 3rd Annual "Authors in Kind" Luncheon held at The Rainbow Room April 4, 2006 in New York City. ( (Getty/Amy Sussman)

Central Park 5 prosecutor under fire now

D. Watkins
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Elisabeth Moss in "The Handmaid's Tale" (Elly Dassas)

What about the white women?

Melanie McFarland
Caleel Harris in "When They See Us" (Atsushi Nishijima/Netflix)

"When They See Us": Don't look away

D. Watkins
Aunjanue Ellis and Ethan Herisse in "When They See Us" (Atsushi Nishijima/Netflix)

"When They See Us" demands open eyes

Melanie McFarland
Sarah Huckabee Sanders (AP/Alex Brandon)

CNN's Acosta calls out Huckabee Sanders

Rachel Leah
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New film series: "We Are Witnesses"

Rachel Leah
Joe Arpaio; Donald Trump (AP/Angie Wang/Susan Walsh)

Trump's signal to racist cops

Heather Digby Parton
Ava DuVernay (AP/Evan Agostini)

Central Park Five on Netflix

Alessandra Maldonado
Jeff Sessions (Getty/Mandel Ngan/Andrew Burton/Photo montage by Salon)

Heather Digby Parton
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(AP/Charles Krupa)

Trump's "law and order" fetish

Heather Digby Parton
(Reuters/Rebecca Cook/Brian Snyder/Instagram/Photo montage by Salon)

Jeb can't out-demagogue Trump

Joan Walsh
Colin Moore and Kharey Wise in "The Central Park Five"

Katie McDonough
Yusef Salaam, one of the five men wrongfully convicted of the Central Park rape (Wikimedia/Thomas Good)

Natasha Lennard
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(Wikipedia)

Prachi Gupta
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