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Antonin Scalia and Amy Coney Barrett (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How the Supreme Court went gun crazy

Kirk Swearingen
Actor Johnny Depp gestures as he stands in the courtroom during a recess amid his defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard, at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, on April 27, 2022. (JONATHAN ERNST/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Depp wins the right's war on free speech

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

Biden faces a worse foe than Trump

Brian Karem
People pay tribute and mourn at a makeshift memorial for the victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, May 31, 2022. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

When the minority rules, children die

David Daley
Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven and Jamie Campbell Bower as Peter Ballard in "Stranger Things" (Courtesy of Netflix)

Stranger Things & the disorderly orderly

Alison Stine
Actor Johnny Depp gestures to spectators in court after closing arguments at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, on May 27, 2022. (STEVE HELBER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

As Depp wins, "believe all women" loses

Melanie McFarland
Law enforcement and other officials attend a press conference on May 26, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas. (Eric Thayer/Getty Images)

Why women are Ulvade's new scapegoat

Amanda Marcotte
Hillary Clinton, John Durham and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/United States Attorney's Office, District of Connecticut)

Trump's Durham investigation is a flop

Heather Digby Parton
Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas, Sadie Sink as Max, Joe Keery as Steve and Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin in "Stranger Things" (Courtesy of Netflix)

How Kate Bush can speak to lonely kids

Alison Stine
Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Dems fall for McConnell's Uvalde trap

Amanda Marcotte
Ultrasound of a pregnant woman and test (Getty Images/SabdiZ)

Gutting Roe will lead to women's deaths

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Sadie Sink in "Stranger Things" (Courtesy of Netflix © 2022)

Max, a "Stranger Things" dream warrior

Melanie McFarland
Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal of Tears for Fears, circa 1984 (Peter Noble/Redferns)

Tears for Fears is overdue for Rock Hall

Annie Zaleski
(Getty/Ted Aljibe)

"Gun control" at the Pentagon? Forget it

Norman Solomon
Dozens of people attend a vigil remembering the 58 people killed in Sunday's shooting in Las Vegas and calling for action against guns on October 4, 2017 in Newtown, Connecticut. The vigil, organized by the Newtown Action Alliance, was held outside the National Shooting Sport Foundation and looked to draw attention to gun violence in America. Twenty school children were killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown on December 14, 2012. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

The truth about guns and capitalism

Jim Sleeper
Chip (voiced by John Mulaney) and Dale (voiced by Andy Samberg) in "Chip N' Dale: Rescue Rangers" (Disney)

The smartest thing "Chip 'n Dale" does

Kaitlin Thomas
Tom Cruise on the set of "Top Gun," directed by Tony Scott (Paramount Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

The lost meaning of "Top Gun"

Jesse Pennington
Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity's images displayed on the side of the Fox News building in midtown Manhattan. (Getty Images)

Franz Kafka warned us about Fox News

Ronald H. Davidson
Kit Connor and Joe Locke in "Heartstopper" (Netflix)

Tweens need more than "Heartstopper"

Alison Stine
Law enforcement work the scene after a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 24, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas. (Photo by Jordan Vonderhaar/Getty Images)

So where were the "good guys with guns"?

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Finn Wolfhard as Mike WHeeler, Noah Schnapp as Will Byers and Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven in "Stranger Things" (Courtesy of Netflix)

The frustrations of "Stranger Things"

Davida G. Breier
Amber Heard arrives at the Fairfax County Courthouse on May 25, 2022 in Fairfax, Virginia (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

On court television, misogyny pays off

Elise Gubitosi
Scene outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24. (ALLISON DINNER/AFP via Getty Images)

Uvalde's ugly truth: Cops won't help you

Amanda Marcotte
(Getty/Jim Watson)

NRA goes to Texas to celebrate gun power

Heather Digby Parton
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