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Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why the "skinny bill" must be voted down

Amanda Marcotte
Former President Donald Trump speaks as Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, Army General Mark Milley, looks on. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Time to limit presidential powers

Heather Digby Parton
Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Joe Manchin and Nancy Pelosi (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Democrats know how to fight — but won't

Chauncey DeVega
Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Can the U.S. break free of grifters?

Thom Hartmann - Independent Media Institute
New York Governor Kathy Hochul holds a briefing at the State Executive office on 3rd Avenue, Manhattan, September 9, 2021. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Sorry, naysayers: Vaccine mandates work

Amanda Marcotte
Donald Trump supporters wait for him to speak at a rally | Group of businessmen (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

America's fate: Oligarchy or autocracy?

Chris Hedges
Diane Lane as Jennifer Brown in "Y: The Last Man" (FX)

Y: The Last Man's patriarchal hangover

Kylie Cheung
Man refusing the vaccine, and getting a pink slip from his job, concept (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The unvaccinated must face consequences

Amanda Marcotte
Donald Trump gives a speech as he announces his candidacy for the U.S. presidency at Trump Tower on June 16, 2015 in New York City. (Getty/Christopher Gregory)

Trump's revival: What fuels his return?

Heather Digby Parton
U.S. President Donald Trump Donald speaks during a campaign rally on November 2, 2020 in Traverse City, Michigan. President Trump and former Vice President Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden are making multiple stops in swing states ahead of the general election on November 3rd. (Rey Del Rio/Getty Images)

Do Trump's fans know he hates them?

Alan D. Blotcky
US Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, John Roberts and Clarence Thomas (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A GOP "doctrine" could kill democracy

Gaby Goldstein, David Daley
TV talk show host Tammy Faye Bakker Messner applying mascara to eyelashes in mirror in dressing room (John Storey/Getty Images)

Under all the makeup who was Tammy Faye?

John Wigger - The Conversation
In "Ted Lasso," Coach Beard (Brendan Hunt) wears New Balance shoes, subtle product placement (until he later props his feet on a desk) (Apple TV+)

Why some product placement works better

Beth L. Fossen - The Conversation
Danielle Webster receiving a Covid-19 booster vaccination at Midland House, Derby | A medical health worker injects the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to a woman as they visit door-to-door to deliver the vaccines to people who live far from health facilities in Siaya, Kenya (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Joe Giddens/Brian Ongoro)

A prescription for saving democracy

Paul Rosenberg
Steve Martin and Martin Short in "Only Murders in the Building" (Hulu)

"Only Murders" makes me miss elder pals

Alison Stine
Singapore President Tony Tan Keng Yam (R) shakes hands with Professor Pericles Lewis (C), president of Yale-NUS college after officiating the inauguration ceremony to mark the start of the Yale-NUS College while other officials look on in SIngapore on August 27, 2013. (ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Yale's Singapore venture failed

Jim Sleeper
Steve Carell in "The Morning Show" (Apple TV+)

The Morning Show's abuser lives it up

Kylie Cheung
Monsters Inside: The 24 Faces of Billy Milligan (Netflix)

Stop the Ted Bundy love for violent men

Kylie Cheung
Yoko Ono and John Lennon, circa 1970 (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

"Imagine" at 50: An atheistic anthem

Phil Zuckerman - The Conversation
Dante and Virgil meet Sapia amongst the envious, Second Terrace of Purgatory, engraving by Gustave Dore in the 1869 edition of Dante's "Divine Comedy" (Getty Images/DEA/BIBLIOTECA AMBROSIANA)

Justice for women in "Divine Comedy"

Laura Ingallinella - The Conversation
Toheeb Jimoh as Sam on "Ted Lasso" (Apple TV+)

Maybe "Ted Lasso" makes Sam too perfect

Melanie McFarland
A United States Border Patrol agent on horseback uses the reins to try and stop a Haitian migrant from entering an encampment on the banks of the Rio Grande near the Acuna Del Rio International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas on September 19, 2021. (PAUL RATJE/AFP via Getty Images)

The myth of American "border security"

John Stoehr - Alternet
Washington DC General David Petraeus attends his confirmation hearing for CIA Director, June 23, 2011 (ImageCatcher News Service/Corbis via Getty Images)

Our chaotic Afghan exit was perfect

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Chris Cuomo (Mike Coppola/Getty Images for WarnerMedia)

Cuomo's insulting butt-grabbing apology

Kylie Cheung
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