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Donald Trump attends a UFC match in Miami, April 11, 2026. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson — Pool/Getty Images)

Trump lost in Iran: How does he get out?

Andrew O'Hehir
President Donald Trump speaks during a bill signing in the Oval Office of the White House on February 03, 2026 in Washington, DC. The House passed legislation today that ends the partial government shutdown while lawmakers negotiate over Immigration and Customs Enforcement policy and funding for the Department of Homeland Security. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Red Scare redux: Trump targets citizens

Heather Digby Parton
Mohammad Ali Salih outside the White House, April 13, 2013. (Shannon Curran/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump, GOP are demonizing all of Islam

Mohammad Ali Salih
Jaafar Jackson as Michael Jackson in "Michael" (Glen Wilson/Lionsgate)

The distinct unease of "Michael"

Coleman Spilde
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Anne Hathaway in "Mother Mary" (Frederic Batier/A24)

The divine lessons of "Mother Mary"

Coleman Spilde
President Donald Trump has discredited, insulted and abused reporters (Chen Mengtong/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)

Boycotting the Correspondents' Dinner

Brian Karem
FBI Director Kash Patel (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Kash Patel’s futile quest for validation

Amanda Marcotte
Carey Mulligan as Lindsay Crane-Martin and Oscar Isaac as Josh Martin in "Beef" (Netflix)

Beef grills capitalism's trap for women

Melanie McFarland
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Directer Kash Patel announce an indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

SPLC charges lend support to hate groups

Austin Sarat
President Donald Trump (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Cabinet chaos shows Trump unraveling

Heather Digby Parton
Rape culture (Lucky Kristianata/Getty Images)

Can we admit that rape culture exists?

Andi Zeisler
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has declined responsibility for the nation's worst measles outbreak in decades (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

RFK Jr. isn't ready for what's next

Howard Dean
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Chief Justice John Roberts (Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images)

John Roberts embodies MAGA cowardice

Amanda Marcotte
Prince performs his first of three shows onstage during "One Night... Three Venues" in 2009 t (Photo by Kristian Dowling/Getty Images)

Prince could only have died in America

Alex Galbraith
Joseph diGenova has decades of experience in attacking those seen as enemies of the GOP (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Trump's new avenger in chief

Heather Digby Parton
Federal immigration agents make an arrest in Chicago on Oct. 31, 2025. (Jamie Kelter Davis/Getty Images)

Trump's judges are thwarting ICE

Chauncey DeVega
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Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway attend "The Devil Wears Prada 2" premiere in South Korea (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)

"The Devil Wears Prada 2" sold its soul

Coleman Spilde
President Donald Trump has been labeled many things. At his core, he's a chaos agent. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

"TACO" theory hides Trump's real threat

Chauncey DeVega
"More people should get married young and have more kids than they can afford," the late Charlie Kirk tweeted, words that have become a mantra for many conservatives. (Michele Ursi/Getty Images)

MAGA wants teen births. It won't work

Amanda Marcotte
A screen displays U.S. and Israeli flags in Times Square, New York, Oct. 13, 2023. (Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images)

Big winner at DNC meeting: Israel

Norman Solomon
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Lorne Michaels stars in director Morgan Neville's documentary "Lorne" (Focus Features)

How the "SNL" sausage gets made

Coleman Spilde
From left, Geert Wilders of the Dutch Freedom Party, Marine Le Pen of the French party National Rally, Santiago Abascal of the Spanish party VOX, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini at the "Make Europe Great Again" rally in Madrid, Feb. 8, 2025. (Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

MAGA’s battle for Europe isn’t over

Andrew O'Hehir
(Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / SOPA Images)

MAGA and the death of middlebrow

Mike Lofgren
Clarence Thomas speaks at a special lecture for America's 250th anniversary, His comments about progressivism being the root of authoritarianism has sparked controversy with historians. (Jay Janner / The Austin American-Statesman / Getty Images)

Clarence Thomas attacks progressivism

Heather Digby Parton
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