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"The Color Purple" author Alice Walker attends the "The Color Purple" Broadway Opening Night at The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on December 10, 2015 in New York City. (Mark Sagliocco/Getty Images)

The rare gift of Alice Walker's diaries

Paula Vene Smith
Ron DeSantis and Vladimir Putin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Republicans follow Putin's playbook

Amanda Marcotte
Men In Military Uniforms Standing (Getty Images / Michael Davis / EyeEm)

Neocon war hawks: They're back!

Chris Hedges
People participate in a march to Trinity Church for a moral Mass on April 11, 2022 in New York City. The event, dubbed the Mass Poor People's & Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington, DC and led by the Revs. Dr. William J. Barber and Dr. Liz Theoharis, is part of a Polls Mobilization tour. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

How the pandemic made inequality worse

Bob Hennelly - InsiderNJ
Lisa meets the son of the late musician Bleeding Gums Murphy (voiced by John Autry II) — and attempts to improve his life in the "The Sound of Bleeding Gums" episode of "The Simpsons" (Photo courtesy of 20th Television Animation)

Does "Simpsons" make history or pander?

Alison Stine
A person holds a banner referring to the Qanon conspiracy theory during a alt-right rally on August 17, 2019 in Portland, Oregon (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

GOP goes full "groomer" to stir violence

Amanda Marcotte
A Soviet soldier runs past a burning German tank in the battle for Kiev during World War II. (CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

War in Europe: Why it's not shocking

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com
Luke Thompson as Benedict Bridgerton in "Bridgerton" (Liam Daniel/Netflix)

Why the next Bridgerton should be queer

Kaitlin Thomas
Mikey Day in "Is It Cake?" (Netflix)

"Is It Cake?" feeds visual catharsis

Maggie Cao - The Conversation
Jennifer Lawrence as Kate Dibiasky, Leonardo DiCaprio as Dr. Randall Mindy, and Timothée Chalamet as Yul in "Don't Look Up" (Niko Tavernise/Netflix)

Stop embracing the "bunker fantasy"

David L. Pike - The Conversation
Russian military vehicles move through Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on May 9, 2021. - Russia celebrates the 76th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany during World War II. (DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Russia's neighbors saw this coming

Kristina Sabaliauskaitė
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a news conference in Washington on Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. The House voted 230 to 199 on Thursday evening to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., from committee assignments over her remarks about QAnon and other conspiracy theories. (Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Why the right wants to see naughty bits

Chauncey DeVega
U.S. President Donald Trump and American evangelical Christian preacher Andrew Brunson (L) participate in a prayer in the Oval Office a day after Brunson was released from a Turkish jail, at the White House on October 13, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Trump's covert Christian right agenda

Amanda Marcotte
Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Mitch McConnell makes Trump dumber

Heather Digby Parton
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) attend a news conference about the confirmation vote for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson at the U.S. Capitol on April 7, 2022 in Washington, DC. The full Senate voted today to confirm the nomination of Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson with a vote of 53-47. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Lindsey Graham's hypocrisy on child porn

Don Christensen
Pedro Pascal as Dieter Bravo in "The Bubble" (Courtesy of Netflix)

The horror of Netflix's COVID "Bubble"

Alison Stine
Supporters of President Donald J. Trump before the start of the rally. At the Reading Regional Airport in Bern Township, PA Saturday afternoon October 31, 2020 where United States President Donald J. Trump spoke during a campaign rally for his bid for reelection. (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)

#BoycottDisney is proof MAGA is a cult

Amanda Marcotte
Donald Trump arrives at a rally on April 2 near Washington, Michigan. ( Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Trump claims left is "mutilating" kids

Chauncey DeVega
Volunteering teams organize humanitarian aid for civilians evacuated from Donbas region amid the growing tension as Russia recognized Ukraine's breakaway regions of Luhansk and Donetsk as independent states on February 22, 2022, in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. (Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The Putin caucus: Actual anti-Americans

Brian Karem
Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sits with his wife and conservative activist Virginia Thomas while he waits to speak at the Heritage Foundation on October 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Clarence Thomas must go — and Ginni too

Thom Hartmann - Independent Media Institute
Benjamin Franklin, circa 1785. Artist Joseph Siffred Duplessis. (Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

Ben Franklin, pop culture darling

Alison Stine
Chris Rock and Will Smith onstage during the show at the 94th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 27, 2022. (Myung Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

The Oscars slap and our hero obsession

D. Watkins
An American flag and a pride rainbow flag overlap in the crowd during a same-sex marriage support rally in West Hollywood celebrate the Supreme Court’s ruling on June 26, 2015 (Getty Images/Joe Kohen)

Kids used for covert ban on gay marriage

Amanda Marcotte
Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

Trump's trashing of Ukraine pays off big

Heather Digby Parton
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