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Elon Musk speaks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump as they watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Trump’s fight with Musk reveals MAGA’s biggest delusion

Amanda Marcotte
The president accused Elon of having "Trump derangement syndrome"
U.S. Republican Senator from Iowa Joni Ernst speaks to the press after the Republican weekly policy lunch at the Capitol in Washington, DC on May 14, 2019. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)

Joni Ernst’s “we’re all going to die” pushes MAGA’s toxic Christian compassion on us all

Amanda Marcotte
Evangelicals in the MAGA era call empathy a "sin"
Amber Heard and Johnny Depp watch as the jury leave the courtroom for a lunch break at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, on May 16, 2022 (STEVE HELBER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard predicted young male voters flocking to Trump

Amanda Marcotte
The trial was permission to believe men are the real victims — regardless of facts
Elon Musk arrives for US President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Elon Musk claims he’s leaving politics — no one should believe him

Amanda Marcotte
The far-right billionaire has a long history of making false promises
Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) speaks during a press conference at the 9/11 Tribute Museum in Lower Manhattan on October 29, 2019 in New York City. Gabbard called for the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI declassify and release 9/11 investigative documents that she claims would implicate the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the 2001 terrorist attacks. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Tulsi Gabbard grows to become Donald Trump’s most dangerous attack dog

Amanda Marcotte
Trump's intelligence director peddles new conspiracy theory that stokes MAGA extremism — and even violence
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his wife actress Cheryl Hines are seen as Independent US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. tapped California attorney Nicole Shanahan as his running mate during an event in Oakland, California, United States on March 26, 2024. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The hidden elitism of RFK’s MAHA movement is making America more unhealthy

Amanda Marcotte
RFK promised to make Americans healthier — instead, he's helping Trump take health care away
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, speaks during her confirmation hearing before the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill on January 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Eric Thayer/Getty Images)

Kristi Noem’s proud MAGA bimbo act builds on the legacy of Sarah Palin

Amanda Marcotte
The GOP adores a woman who plays dumb to build up the man she's serving
Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gives a keynote speech during the Bitcoin 2024 conference at Music City Center July 26, 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

RFK Jr. is laundering Christian right views as MAHA

Amanda Marcotte
Christian conservatives know they have a branding problem with women
Samuel Alito | Supreme Court Building (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“A court captured by far-right conspiracy theories”: How the GOP drove the Supreme Court off a cliff

Amanda Marcotte
In her new book "Lawless," law professor Leah Litman chronicles the collapse of reason at the highest court
Conservative political commentator, writer, and lawyer Ben Shapiro during a break of the filming of his show The Ben Shapiro Show on September 26, 2018 in Los Angles, CA (Jessica Pons/ For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Ben Shapiro is cracking under the pressure to shill for Trump

Amanda Marcotte
Pointless trade wars and $400 million jet bribes make it hard for Trump sycophants to cape for the MAGA messiah
Teenage girls dressed in costumes with colorful school lockers in the background (Photo Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / AntonioSolano / Westend61)

Texas GOP wants to ban kids from playing dress-up: Yes, really

Amanda Marcotte
Lone Star Republicans propose ban on "non-human behavior" in school — it's another stealth attack on LGBTQ rights
George W. Bush and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s deportation lies are nothing new: Remember Bush, WMD and Iraq?

Amanda Marcotte
Before Trump invented an "invasion" by Venezuelan "terrorists," Bush cooked up fake evidence for war in Iraq
Donald Trump, with Sean Duffy (L), speaks in the Cabinet Room of the White House on January 24, 2019. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

“Two dolls” for Christmas: Trump resorts to sexism to sell tariffs

Amanda Marcotte
Betting on the misogyny of MAGA, the president pushes a far-right fantasy that tariffs will restore male dominance
A woman walking in the sun on a windy beach. (Getty Images / Murat Deniz)

TikTok’s “Jesus glow” trend exposes the emptiness of social media religion

Amanda Marcotte
Conservative Christians are hawking faith like it's the hot new beauty treatment
Donald Trump and Cryptocurrency (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s crypto racket reaches into Americans’ wallets

Amanda Marcotte
Trump's crypto firm isn't just corrupt — he is making it easier for fraudsters to take your money
Portrait of American financier Jeffrey Epstein (left) and real estate developer Donald Trump as they pose together at the Mar-a-Lago estate, Palm Beach, Florida, 1997. (Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)

“Still no Epstein files”: MAGA conspiracy theory in crisis after victim’s death

Amanda Marcotte
It's getting tougher to believe that Trump will expose the secret satanic Democratic cabal ruling the world
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) speaks with reporters as she departs a House Republican Conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol on September 10, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

MAGA loves a tantrum: How public meltdowns became the preferred method of GOP communication

Amanda Marcotte
Why Nancy Mace, Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller keep throwing fits on camera
Charlie Kirk, founder and executive director of Turning Point USA (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Why MAGA media is fixated on a Texas teen murder case

Amanda Marcotte
The racist exploitation of Austin Metcalf's killing shows how MAGA tears local communities apart
Supporters of parents advocating for religious rights demonstrate outside of the U.S. Supreme Court Building on April 22, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Too late to opt-out: Supreme Court ultimately can’t save the religious right’s futile book bans

Amanda Marcotte
Even if SCOTUS allows LGBTQ books to get pushed out of classrooms, the right is still losing the larger culture war
Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, walks through the Capitol Hill, with his child, in regards to Department of Government Efficiency meetings on December 5, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Maansi Srivastava for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Elon Musk’s baby mama drama matters

Amanda Marcotte
MAGA masculinity is getting weirder — and making men lonelier
Mark Wahlberg, Chris Pratt and Gwen Stefani (Photo Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / TheStewartofNY / Viorika / Carlos Alvarez / Charley Gallay / Getty Images for Netflix )

An atheist’s unnerving descent into Hallow, the prayer app beloved by MAGA celebrities

Amanda Marcotte
Endorsed by Gwen Stefani and Russell Brand, Hallow's take on religion is the opiate of MAGA
Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) and US Senator from Ohio and Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance attend a remembrance ceremony on the 23rd anniversary of the September 11 terror attack on the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, in New York City on September 11, 2024. (ADAM GRAY/AFP via Getty Images)

JD Vance exposed the truth about Trump’s war on foreign students (hint: it’s not about antisemitism)

Amanda Marcotte
International students, Vance recently argued, are "bad for the American dream"
Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Bryce Jordan Center on October 26, 2024 in State College, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Harvard fights back against Trump: Institutional resistance finally rises up — and sets a new model

Amanda Marcotte
Columbia learned the hard way: Complicity will not save you
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (C), US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz (R) and US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff attend an interview after meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, at Diriyah Palace, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on February 18, 2025. (EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Marco Rubio’s hunt for “anti-Christian bias” is creeping theocracy

Amanda Marcotte
In a new war on federal workers, State Department employees are told to snitch on people with Pride flags
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