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Former Sen. Doug Jone speaks at the 60th anniversary of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing on Sept. 15, 2023. (Butch Dill - Pool/Getty Images)

Will we see an Alabama miracle in 2026?

Heather Digby Parton
President Donald Trump (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

MAGA shifts away from Trump after Reiner

Sophia Tesfaye
Josh Hutcherson and Rachel Sennott in "I Love LA" (Kenny Laubbacher/HBO)

"I Love LA" tackles Zillennial ambition

Angelina Mazza
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before boarding Air Force One on Nov. 16, 2025.

A Hong Kong-style fire could happen here

Sabrina Haake
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Erika Kirk speaks onstage during The New York Times DealBook Summit 2025 on Dec. 3. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images for The New York Times))

Erika Kirk can't escape Candace Owens

Amanda Marcotte
Jared Leto in "Tron: Ares" (Disney Enterprises, Inc.)

6 soundtracks hit a high note in 2025

Melanie McFarland
Feast of Seven Fishes (Olga Mazyarkina / Getty Images )

Why Seven Fishes is still our feast

Francesca Giangiulio
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., attends a news conference on the government shutdown on Oct. 8, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Mike Johnson's speakership is in trouble

Heather Digby Parton
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Former FBI Director James Comey (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Trump's prosecutions keep crumbling

Garrett Owen
The cast of "The Dick Van Dyke Show," circa 1965. (Bettman/Contributor/Getty Images)

Dick Van Dyke changed TV forever

Melanie McFarland
Jared Kushner at a press conference in Israel on Oct. 21, 2025. (Nathan Howard/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Kushner is at the center of corruption

Sophia Tesfaye
Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Fletcher speaks about her memoir in Washington, D.C., on June 18, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Trump is whitewashing American history

Chauncey DeVega
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Ronald Reagan meets in the Oval Office with a group of Afghan resistance fighters, Feb. 2, 1983. (Bettmann via Getty Images)

Afghanistan's tragedy — and America's

Leila Nadir
(Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Craig Barritt / Matt Winkelmeyer / Kevin Mazur / Phillip Faraone / Kevin Dietsch / Andrew Harnik / Saul Loeb / Vittorio Zunino Celotto)

The best takedowns of 2025

Andi Zeisler
(Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / DON EMMERT / Spencer Platt / Michael Siluk / UCG / IkonStudio)

We can't bomb our way to fewer overdoses

Kassandra Frederique, James Saenz
President Donald Trump speaks at the NATO summit in The Hague on June 25, 2025. (Robin Van Lonkhuijsen/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump the "destroyer" endangers Europe

Brian Karem
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, takes the stage during a rally featuring California Gov. Gavin Newsom in Houston on Nov. 8, 2025. (Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

GOP will regret hyping Jasmine Crockett

Amanda Marcotte
Melania Trump walks with a person dressed as Santa Claus as she arrives at Marine Corps Base Quantico for a holiday charity drive on December 8, 2025 (SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)

Melania is peacing out on Christmas

Andi Zeisler
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in the Oval Office on Aug. 25, 2025. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump still can't say "you're fired"

Heather Digby Parton
Luigi Mangione appears with his lawyers for a suppression-of-evidence hearing in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan Criminal Court on Dec. 8, 2025, in New York City. (Sarah Yenesel - Pool/Getty Images)

Care even worse since Mangione arrest

Troy Farah
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President Donald Trump holds a rally at Mount Airy Casino Resort on Dec. 9, 2025 in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Trump's return to MAGA rallies is a flop

Sophia Tesfaye
Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump walks on stage to speak on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 18, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Trump's affordability con job backfires

Amanda Marcotte
The Replacements (Rhino)

2025's best box sets and reissues

Caryn Rose
Shadows of "Little Men" against a world map (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's security doc endangers democracy

Austin Sarat
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