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US Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) looks to a display of a children's book on race while speaking during the confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson before the Senate Judiciary Committee on her nomination to be an Associate Justice on the US Supreme Court, in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on March 22, 2022. (Photo illustration by Salon/SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

GOP's racist babies throw SCOTUS tantrum

Amanda Marcotte
Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Who pays for the COVID lies?

Heather Digby Parton
Supporters gather at a rally by former President Donald Trump at the Canyon Moon Ranch festival grounds on January 15, 2022 in Florence, Arizona. The rally marks Trump's first of the midterm election year with races for both the U.S. Senate and governor in Arizona this year. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

It's science: Trump voters are dumb

Chauncey DeVega
A Ukrainian serviceman walks towards the front line in the city of Irpin, northern Ukraine, on March 12, 2022. - Russian forces are positioned around Kiev on March 12, 2022 and are "blocking" Mariupol, where thousands of people are suffering a devastating siege, in southern Ukraine, a country that has been bombed for more than two weeks. (ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Russia's war crimes — and America's

Norman Solomon
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The Power of the Dog (Photo courtesy of Netflix )

Power of Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons

Alison Stine
The contestants and judges sit down for a family style meal to taste the dishes from the second challenge, as seen on The Julia Child Challenge (Photo courtesy of Food Network/Discovery)

Julie breaks down "The Julia Challenge"

Julie Powell
Brett Kavanaugh, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Ted Cruz (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Cruz flips SCOTUS hearings for Kavanaugh

Amanda Marcotte
Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Amy Schumer (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Zelenskyy at the Oscars? Nice try, Amy

Joy Saha
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Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and a QAnon sign in fron of the U.S. Capitol (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP is using SCOTUS to pander to QAnon

Amanda Marcotte
Joe Biden | Rubble in Zhytomyr on March 02, 2022, following a Russian bombing the day before (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP plans to exploit Ukraine for gain

Heather Digby Parton
A woman looks at a computer screen watching a dissenting Russian Channel One employee entering Ostankino on-air TV studio during Russia's most-watched evening news broadcast, holding up a poster which reads as "No War" and condemning Moscow's military action in Ukraine in Moscow on March 15, 2022. - As a news anchor Yekaterina Andreyeva launched into an item about relations with Belarus, Marina Ovsyannikova, who wore a dark formal suit, burst into view, holding up a hand-written poster saying "No War" in English. (AFP via Getty Images)

Who will stand up to Tucker Carlson?

Kirk Swearingen
Mutating virus variant (Getty Images/wildpixel)

How to prevent future Covid variants

Michael Rose - Undark
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US President George W. Bush make a point during his State of the Union address 20 January 2004 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. In his speech, Bush had vowed that the United States "will never seek a permission slip" to go to war as he took aim in his annual State of the Union speech at critics of the invasion of Iraq. | Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of big businesses at the Kremlin in Moscow on February 24, 2022. - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said his country wanted to remain part of the world economy and had no plans to harm it. Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, killing dozens and triggering warnings from Western leaders of unprecedented sanctions. Russian air strikes hit military installations across the country and ground forces moved in from the north, south and east, forcing many Ukrainians flee their homes to the sounds of bombing. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Stephen JAFFE/AFP/Alexey NIKOLSKY)

Putin's big mistake: Echoes of Bush

Paul Rosenberg
"Phoenix Rising" illustration (HBO Max)

"Phoenix Rising" and the art of trauma

Alison Stine
President Reagan bids farewell to President of Zaire, Mobutu Sese Seko as he departs concluding talks at the White House (Bettmann/Getty Images)

Africa, Ukraine and Cold War hangover

Mohammad Ali Salih
Jane Lynch as Sophie Lennon and Rachel Brosnahan as Midge Maisel in "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" (Prime Video)

The true Maisel-Lennon rivalry backstory

Gwydion Suilebhan, Steven Gimbel
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Debating Paul Thomas Anderson's films

Ari Mattes - The Conversation
U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the 82nd Airborne carry military equipment as they take part in a exercise outside the operating base at the Arlamow Airport on , 2022 in Wola Korzeniecka, Poland. The U.S., in response to the Russian military buildup and subsequent invasion of Ukraine and in concert with other NATO member states deploying additional troops across eastern European countries, has sent thousands of troops to Poland, where they have set up bases at Rzeszow and at two small airfields, both not far from Poland's border to Ukraine. Meanwhile fighting between the Russian military and Ukrainian armed forces is raging across Ukraine. (Omar Marques/Getty Images)

On Ukraine, let's follow the money

Shaan Sachdev
A man walks amid debris in front of a residential apartment complex that was heavily damaged by a Russian attack on March 18, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Russian forces remain on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital, but their advance has stalled in recent days, even while Russian strikes - and pieces of intercepted missiles - have hit residential areas in the north of Kyiv. An estimated half of Kyiv's population has fled to other parts of the country, or abroad, since Russia invaded on February 24. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Bombed out: Why we keep making war

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Volodymr Zelenskyy in "Servant of the People" (ECCHO)

Zelenskyy's series lives up to his hype

Melanie McFarland
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Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla talks during a press conference with European Commission President after a visit to oversee the production of the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine at the factory of US pharmaceutical company Pfizer, in Puurs, on April 23, 2021. (JOHN THYS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Big Pharma won't let the vaccine out

Charlotte Kilpatrick
The New York Times Building is seen in New York City on February 4, 2021. (DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images)

The NY Times doesn't get free speech

Amanda Marcotte
Family in protective face masks in airport during COVID-19 pandemic (Getty Images/ArtMarie)

Think the pandemic is over? Wake up

Heather Digby Parton
Russia's President Vladimir Putin looks on during talks with US President Joe Biden at the Villa La Grange. (Mikhail MetzelTASS via Getty Images)

Don't be fooled: They still love Putin

Chauncey DeVega
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