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Johnny Van Zant of Lynyrd Skynyrd waves an American flag while the band performs onstage (Kevin Winter/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)

What went wrong in America — sort of

Kirk Swearingen
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Ilhan Omar fact-checks Lauren Boebert

Sarah K. Burris - Raw Story
Donald Trump | Aliens (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The real world: Stranger than sci-fi

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com
Family of Ahmaud Arbery embrace at the Glynn County Courthouse during a protest of the shooting death of Arbery on May 8, 2020 in Brunswick, Georgia (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

Why did defense bring up Arbery's toes?

Rocio Fabbro
Old gas station (Getty Images/brytta)

Looking for America — and not finding it

Brian Karem
A Starbucks barista prepares a drink at a Starbucks Coffee Shop location in New York (Ramin Talaie/Corbis via Getty Images)

How one town may soon change Starbucks

Jon Skolnik
Prop stylist: Megan Hedgeth. Food stylist: Lauren Lapenna. (Julia Gartland / Food52)

Does turkey actually make you sleepy?

Valerio Farris - Food52
Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

UN warns of GOP voting rights "tyranny"

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., conducts a news conference with members of the House Freedom Caucus outside the Capitol to oppose the Equality Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation, on Thursday February 25, 2021. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

MTG proposes medal for Rittenhouse

David Edwards - Raw Story
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) (Zach Gibson/Getty Images)

Jim Jordan hid COVID-19 diagnosis

Trish Rooney
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (Jacob Moscovitch/Getty Images)

Man's exoneration haunts Missouri Gov.

Jon Skolnik
Donald Trump and Kyle Rittenhouse (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump rushes Rittenhouse to Mar-a-Lago

Kenneth Tran
Madison Cawthorn and Lauren Boebert (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Boebert challenges Cawthorn to "sprint"

Jon Skolnik
Defendant Travis McMichael observes court proceedings during the trial for Ahmaud Arbery's shooting death at the Glynn County Courthouse on November 8, 2021 in Brunswick, Georgia. Greg McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, and a neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan, are charged with the February 2021 slaying of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

Arbery killers found guilty

Jon Skolnik
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell (Getty Images)

FBI probes second Lindell-linked breach

Igor Derysh
Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump and Kyle Rittenhouse (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump knows his base needs Rittenhouse

Amanda Marcotte
Joe Biden, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Beyond Biden: POTUS is always unpopular

Heather Digby Parton
Miles Taylor and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The man who stood up to TrumpWorld

Chauncey DeVega
Ron Johnson (R-WI) (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Wisconsin GOP longs for election coup

Igor Derysh
Lucy McBath and Stacey Abrams (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Georgia GOP redraws map, Dems silent

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
Neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other alt-right factions scuffled with counter-demonstrators near Emancipation Park (Formerly "Lee Park") in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia. After fighting between factions escalated, Virginia State Police ordered the evacuation by all parties and cancellation of the "Unite The Right" rally scheduled to take place in the park. (Albin Lohr-Jones/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Charlottesville organizers must pay up

Jon Skolnik
A Ku Klux Klan demonstration at the state house building on July 18, 2015 in Columbia, South Carolina. (Getty/John Moore)

Racist prison guards kept on the job

Trish Rooney
A makeshift memorial dedicated to missing woman Gabby Petito is located near City Hall on September 20, 2021 in North Port, Florida. A body has been found by authorities in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming that fits the description of Petito, who went missing while on a cross-country trip with her boyfriend Brian Laundrie. | A makeshift memorial is pictured along the route of the parade on W Main Street in Waukesha, Wisconsin on November 22, 2021, the day after a vehicle drove through a Christmas parade killing five people. - US authorities identified the driver suspected of plowing into a Christmas parade in the Midwestern city of Waukesha, killing at least five and wounding dozens, as media reported he was fleeing a knife fight. (Photo illustration by Salon/Octavio Jones/Mustafa Hussain/AFP/Getty Images)

Who dies when the law looks away?

Amanda Marcotte
Roger Stone and Alex Jones (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Alex Jones, Roger Stone subpoenaed

Jon Skolnik
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