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Firefighters survey tornado damages in downtown Mayfield on December 11, 2021 in Mayfield, Kentucky. Multiple tornadoes tore through parts of the lower Midwest late on Friday night leaving a large path of destruction and multiple fatalities. (Brett Carlsen/Getty Images)

Despite everything, we need each other

Kirk Swearingen
2018 Joe Manchin campaign video against pre-existing conditions lawsuit (Manchin for West Virginia/YouTube)

Joe Manchin, BBB and West Virginia

Samuel Workman - The Conversation
Virginie Efira in Paul Verhoeven’s "Benedetta" (IFC Films)

The long history of sexy nunsploitation

Kaite Welsh
Blur selection of salad dressing, pickles, condiments, and canned beans/veggies/soups on shelves in store (Getty Images/TrongNguyen)

Salon's 5 favorite condiments of 2021

Ashlie D. Stevens
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1967-Detroit: Tough-looking Michigan National Guardsmen push rioting Negroes back from a burning building with fixed bayonets on Detroit's riot-torn west side. National Guard tank crews blasted away at entrenched snipers with .50-caliber machine guns early July 26th after sniper fire routed policemen from a square-mile area of the motor city. (Getty Images/Bettmann)

In 2022, here's what matters most

Lucian K. Truscott IV
James Stewart, as George Bailey, points at Lionel Barrymore in a scene from "It's a Wonderful Life" (Getty Images/Bettman)

The harm of "It's a Wonderful Life"

Emily Anne Strong
Man Shrugging | January 6, 2021 Capitol Riot (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Fascism is coming: Americans don't care

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump, behind bars (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Will 2022 be final curtain for Trump?

Brian Karem
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Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Starlets reclaimed their lives in 2021

Alison Stine
Kyrsten Sinema, Ron DeSantis, Amy Coney Barret, Donald Trump and Chris Christie (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Salon's 2021 spicy take awards

Amanda Marcotte
Marjorie Taylor Greene, Donald Trump and Kevin McCarthy (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The threat of MAGA returns for 2022

Heather Digby Parton
Ron DeSantis, Lauren Boebert and Mike Lindell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The year of Deeply Dubious Characters

Andrew O'Hehir
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Starbucks employees wait for results of a vote count, on December 9, 2021 in Buffalo, New York. - The ballots have been cast and employees of three Starbucks cafes in Buffalo have created the first union at outlets owned by the retail coffee giant in the United States. | In this handout provided by the U.S. Air Force, an air crew assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron assists evacuees aboard a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport on August 21, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. | Protesters march around downtown Minneapolis near the courthouse calling for justice for George Floyd after closing arguments in the Chauvin trial has ended on Monday, April 19, 2021 in Minneapolis, MN. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A bad year for the world: But still!

Medea Benjamin
A fallen white ceramic plate of spaghetti, with a fork beside it (Getty Images/Aleksandr Zubkov)

My year of cooking quick and dirty

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Manchinema: 2021's most villainous duo

Amanda Marcotte
Julian Assange gestures to the media from a police vehicle on his arrival at Westminster Magistrates court on April 11, 2019 in London, England. (Getty Images/Jack Taylor)

Why PEN America betrayed Assange

Chris Hedges
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View of a mass meeting of 20,000 members of the League of the Friends of the New Germany, which was held in New York's Madison Square Garden. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

Fascism in America: Not all that new

Elayne Clift
A businessman reading fake news on mobile phone (Getty Images/Andry Djumantara)

2022: A New Year of misinformation

Anjana Susarla, Dam Hee Kim, Ethan Zuckerman - The Conversation
Joan Didion (Neville Elder/Corbis via Getty Images)

Joan Didion's timeless political writing

David Masciotra
Carl Clemons-Hopkins as Marcus in "Hacks," Demi Lovato, and Dua Saleh as Cal in "Sex Education" (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Netflix/Sam Taylor/HBO Max/Anne Marie Fox)

2021 was a very nonbinary year

Alison Stine
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Democratic candidates for Senate Jon Ossoff (L) and Raphael Warnock (R) bump elbows on stage during a rally with US President-elect Joe Biden outside Center Parc Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 4, 2021. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

The Georgia way: How to win elections

Steven Rosenfeld - Independent Media Institute
Alex Jones, Donald Trump and Candace Owens (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump supporters caught in a COVID bind?

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

The conservative urge to be a victim

Sophia A. McClennen
George Orwell, Joan Didion and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Didion, Orwell and the death of language

John Berthelsen
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