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New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani visits a cultural center for the elderly on Oct. 31, 2025. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Zohran Mamdani knows how to win

Amanda Marcotte
US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he arrives at Palm Beach International Airport on October 31, 2025 in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

How Donald Trump broke the American mind

Sophia A. McClennen
Donald Trump | Nuclear Blast (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Making America radioactive again

Heather Digby Parton
Elon Musk and Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Patrick T. Fallon/Thomas Krych/Anadolu/Tuomas A. Lehtinen)

Elon's dubious British bromance

Andrew O'Hehir
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Zohran Mamdani (D), Curtis Sliwa (R) and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (I) participate in the second New York City mayoral debate on Oct. 22, 2025. (HIROKO MASUIKE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

NYC mayoral race approaches a nasty end

David Daley
A woman cries over her empty fridge (Leonardo Moreno/Getty Images)

Trump's SNAP shutoff is cruel by design

Andi Zeisler
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon, June 26, 2025. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Trump regime just looks fascist

Mike Lofgren
A grocery store with sign in the window accepting Electronic Benefit Transfer cards and food stamps in St. Paul, Minnessotta. (Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Stop asking who’s “winning” the shutdown

Chauncey DeVega
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US President Richard Nixon (left) and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger talk together, Washington DC, November 25, 1972. (White House via CNP/Getty Images)

New Kissinger doc gilds the stinkweed

Ken Hughes
Emma Stone stars as Michelle in "Bugonia" (Atsushi Nishijima/Focus Features)

"Bugonia" makes listening a radical act

Coleman Spilde
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump at the annual Halloween at the White House event on Oct. 30, 2025. ( Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The horror of Donald Trump's America

Brian Karem
A sign alerting customers about SNAP food stamps benefits is displayed at a Brooklyn grocery store on December 5, 2019 in New York City, United States. (Photo by Scott Heins/Getty Images)

MAGA salivates at cutting food stamps

Sophia Tesfaye
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Martha Stewart attends a 2018 Halloween by Michaels (Brian Ach/Getty Images for Michaels)

Celebrate Halloween like Martha Stewart

Joy Saha
(Photo illustration by Salon / Sara Miles)

We can find political courage in poetry

Randall Horton
Charlie Hunnam as Ed Gein in "Monster: The Ed Gein Story" (Netflix)

Our inhuman serial killer obsession

Melanie McFarland
Lily Allen attends the Lily Allen x Perfect limited edition mini-zine signing on October 24, 2025 in London, England. (Dave Benett/Getty Images for Perfect Magazine)

The breakup album for a parasocial world

Coleman Spilde
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Texas sues Tylenol for dumbest reason

Amanda Marcotte
Isiah Kiner-Falefa of the Toronto Blue Jays tags out Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers during the 2025 World Series. (Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

Americans want a fair playing field

Kirk Swearingen
Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen in "Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere" (20th Century Studios)

Springsteen's truth, minus the heart

Caryn Rose
President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office on Aug. 22, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump's 2020 rants are really about 2026

Heather Digby Parton
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The facade of the East Wing of the White House is demolished by work crews on October 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trump demolishes more than the East Wing

Chauncey DeVega
President-elect Catherine Connolly with her husband, Brian McEnery (left), and Taoiseach Micheál Martin after being declared the winner of Ireland's presidential election, Oct. 25, 2025. (Niall Carson/PA Images via Getty Images)

Ireland's new president matters, sort of

Andrew O'Hehir
Elon Musk, during a news conference with President Donald Trump on May 30, 2025 inside the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. (Photo by Tom Brenner For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Musk’s moon mission divides Trump world

Sophia Tesfaye
Riley Gaines speaks during the 10X Ladies Conference on Aug. 15, 2025 in Aventura, Florida. (Ivan Apfel/Getty Images)

Riley Gaines and the demonic trans panic

Amanda Marcotte
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