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Conor Lynch

Conor Lynch is a writer and journalist living in New York City. His work has appeared on Salon, AlterNet, Counterpunch and openDemocracy. Follow him on Twitter: @dilgentbureauct

Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why America’s plutocrats are lining up to pay Trump’s legal bills

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott and former President Donald J. Trump attend a security briefing with state officials and law enforcement at the Weslaco Department of Public Safety DPS Headquarters before touring the US-Mexico border wall on Wednesday, June 30, 2021 in Weslaco, TX. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Republicans return to Antebellum era theories to justify Trump’s civil war push

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Steve Bannon, Donald Trump and Clarence Thomas (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The Supreme Court looks set to make Steve Bannon’s dream come true

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Dwight Eisenhower; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AP/Photo Montage by Salon)

Today’s conservatives are terrified of “socialism.” It wasn’t always that way

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Bernie Sanders; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Getty/AP/Salon)

Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Kansas: A progressive surge in Middle America?

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Donald Trump; Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AP/Getty/Photo montage by Salon)

Neoliberalism is being rejected around the world: Can genuine progressives capitalize?

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Brett Kavanaugh; "The Handmaid's Tale" (Getty/Hulu/Salon)

Justice Brett Kavanaugh and the American right’s “Republic of Gilead” social agenda

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AP/Seth Wenig)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez proves that money doesn’t win elections: Are Democrats listening?

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George Soros; Roseanne Barr (Getty/Sean Gallup/AP/Richard Shotwell)

Roseanne Barr, George Soros and the far right’s latest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory

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Bernie Sanders addresses an audience during a rally. (AP/Steven Senne)

Are millennials really so naive? Maybe democratic socialists are the real “pragmatists”

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Michael Cohen; Donald Trump (Getty/Shutterstock)

Donald Trump’s presidency has hit remarkable new heights of corruption — and most of it is legal

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Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump (Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

Democrats still have a big crush on Emmanuel Macron — but “radical centrism” is a bust

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Members of the Ku Klux Klan at a rally to protect Southern Confederate monuments (Getty/Andrew Caballero)

Angry young white men, the “incel rebellion” and an age of worldwide reaction

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Vladimir Putin; Aleksandr Dugin (AP/Getty/YouTube/Photo Montage by Salon)

Did philosopher Alexander Dugin, aka “Putin’s brain,” shape the 2016 election?

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Donald Trump (Getty/Drew Angerer)

Donald Trump’s creed of greed: Product of a society that puts profit before people

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Bernie Sanders (Getty/Jim Watson)

Bernie Sanders criticizes Democrats, they flip out (again): Has politics become team sports?

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Five-Star Movement (M5S) party founder Beppe Grillo and candidate premier, Luigi Di Maio attend their party's final rally in Rome, March 2, 2018. (AP/Andrew Medichini)

At first, pundits ignored the populist insurgency: Now they claim it’s a threat to democracy

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Trump launches a new drug war, targeting the opioid crisis — but who’s the real enemy?

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Bernie Sanders (Getty/Alex Wong)

Can the red-blue partisan divide be overcome? Bernie Sanders thinks so

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Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker (Getty/Prakash Singh/Penguin Random House)

“Enlightenment Now”: Steven Pinker’s grand apology for capitalism

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(AP/Susan Walsh)

Get ready for Trump 2020, Democrats

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Bill Kristol; John McCain (AP/Colin Young-wolff/Patrick Semansky)

Why neocons really hate Trump: He’s hastening the decline of American empire

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Fiscal fraud: Why supply-side economics refuses to die

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Bernie Sanders; Cory Booker; Joe Biden; Kamala Harris; Kirsten Gillibrand (AP/Salon)

Bernie may run again: But have Democrats learned anything from his 2016 campaign?

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