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A pair of UXOLao technicians walk down a new road built atop the old Ho Chi Minh Trail. After spending the day finding buried explosives, A pair of UXOLao technicians walk down a new road built atop the old Ho Chi Minh Trail in Phu Vong, Attapeu, Laos. (Jerry Redfern/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The war beneath our feet

Danae Hendrickson
Items are displayed in the makeshift memorial for Charlie Kirk outside the headquarters of Turning Point USA on September 18, 2025, in Phoenix, Arizona. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The making of an AI-generated martyr

Art Jipson - The Conversation
President Donald Trump at the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 23, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump's diplomacy by insult

Brian Karem
Vice President Kamala Harris concedes the 2024 presidential election to Donald Trump at Howard University on Nov. 6, 2024. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Kamala Harris should blame Joe Biden

Amanda Marcotte
(Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / TorriPhoto / iStock)

AI is turning you basic

Dr. Sandra Matz, C. Blaine Horton
Presidential candidate Javier Milei of La Libertad Avanza lifts a chainsaw during a rally on September 25, 2023 in San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Tomas Cuesta/Getty Images)

Argentina looks to Trump for a bailout

Arturo Porzecanski - The Conversation
Large group of school kids raising their hands to answer the teacher's question on a class at elementary school. (Getty Images/skynesher)

Okla. education chief abruptly quits

Blaise Malley
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth helps curb his lie detector program just as he faces scrutiny for his own leaking scandal. (Celal Gunes / Anadolu / Getty Images)

Hegseth order sparks military "anxiety"

Garrett Owen
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, Republican from Texas speaks during a press conference following a shooting at an ICE detention facility in Dallas, Texas, on September 24, 2025. (ARIC BECKER/AFP via Getty Images)

MAGA blames Dems for Dallas ICE shooting

Blaise Malley
The U.S. Department of State sign in Washington, DC, United States of America on July 9th. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Trump nominee deletes call for violence

Garrett Owen
Protesters burn a Confederate battle on Aug. 12, 2018. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

GOP keeps pushing flag-burning ban

Russell Payne
Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett greet President Donald Trump after his address to a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

SCOTUS just told us how its term will go

Heather Digby Parton
Demonstrators march through downtown Chicago to protest President Donald Trump's threats against the city. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Trump looks ready to invade Chicago

Chauncey DeVega
In this photo illustration, a woman browses Reddit website on her laptop. (Photo Illustration by Serene Lee/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The online space for "recovered doomers"

Nicole Karlis
Andrew Bailey during the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference the Gaylord National Convention Center in Fort Washington, Maryland, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. (Photo by Dominic Gwinn/Getty Images)

New FBI lead waged Missouri culture war

Jeremy Kohler - ProPublica
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during the daily press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on September 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump team to blame for errors, UN says

Garrett Owen
Zohran Mamdani speaks to supporters during a Democratic primary election night gathering after running on a platform of affordability. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Mamdani campaign vets lend Dems a hand

Russell Payne
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and President Donald Trump during a dinner at the White House for tech and business leaders on Sept. 4, 2025. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Calling Mark Zuckerberg's bluff

Jenna Sherman
Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel ( Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)

Kimmel’s return is a Project 2025 defeat

Sophia Tesfaye
Erika Kirk speaks during the memorial service for her husband, right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, on Sept. 21, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Erika Kirk can’t keep Charlie’s audience

Amanda Marcotte
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. and Donald Trump (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The FCC's phony right-wing critics

Charles R. Davis
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters on September 23, 2025 in New York City. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Critics mock "embarrassing" UN speech

Blaise Malley
(Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Leon Neal / Bettman / Cynthia Johnson / The Chronicle Collection)

Trump-Nixon parallels are now uncanny

Heather Digby Parton
Woman holds an upside down US flag to protest against President Donald Trump outside the US Capitol ahead of his joint address to Congress in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. (ALLISON ROBBERT/AFP via Getty Images)

American democracy is not a lost cause

Chauncey DeVega
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