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A woman casts her ballot inside the Basset Place Mall in El Paso, Texas on November 3, 2020. (Justin HAMEL / AFP)

Could Congress' unused power save us?

Thom Hartmann - Independent Media Institute
Yvonne Orji and Issa Rae in "Insecure" (Merie Wallace/HBO)

Savor the confident "Insecure" finale

Melanie McFarland
Protesters gather outside the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. | The Russian Revolution: Peasants plundering the properties of the rural rich (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Democracy vs. fascism: Cool story bro!

Andrew O'Hehir
USA, California, Los Angeles, traffic on the freeway (Getty Images)

Our misguided obsession with traffic

Brian Ladd - Undark
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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)

The grinches hoarding vaccine patents

Charlotte Kilpatrick
James Joyce and Stan Lee (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Culture war: How left and right united

Doug Neiss
Andrew Ridgeley and George Michael of Wham! perform on stage in London, 1984. (Photo by Phil Dent/Redferns/Getty Images)

The soulful revenge of "Last Christmas"

Annie Zaleski
Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, waves to the crowd while speaking at the podium as he concedes the presidency during Mitt Romney's campaign election night event at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center on November 7, 2012 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Why we can't have a meritocracy

Mary Barker
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Viktor Orban, Marine Le Pen and Steve Bannon (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The far right builds a global think tank

John Feffer - TomDispatch.com
From left to right: Gun-toting Reps. Lauren Boebert and Thomas Massie with their families. (Photo illustration via Twitter/Salon)

White supremacist Christmas, with guns

Chauncey DeVega
Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The crime wave Fox News is ignoring

Amanda Marcotte
Joe Manchin and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

America got Scrooged — but there's hope

Brian Karem
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Donald Trump (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

What happens if Trump admits it all?

Chauncey DeVega
Afghan families gather at the Distribution site of WFP Special Nutritious Food to Pregnant and Lactating Mothers with Acute Malnutrition (AM PLW) and Children aged 6-59 months with moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM children) at an Internally Displaced Camp on September 29, 2021, in the outskirt of Herat, Afghanistan. Since the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan in August 2021, the economy has suffered after the world aid funding stopped, which has created a humanitarian crisis. Most art, culture, and pastimes have been banned. The female population has also had to quit jobs and young girls after the age of 12 can no longer go to school or further education. (Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)

Afghans face famine: Do we really care?

Julie Hollar - FAIR
Angry parents from school board meeting, Jesse Watters and Anthony Fauci (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Fauci reveals the right's insecurities

Amanda Marcotte
Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop, The Pizza Dog, Clayton English as Grills, Robert Walker Branchaud as Orville, Adelle Drahos as Missy, and Adetinpo Thomas as Wendy "HAWKEYE" (Photo by Chuck Zlotnick/Marvel Studios)

The heroes of "Hawkeye" dress like us

Alison Stine
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Brian Kilmeade, Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Stop calling the fascists "hypocrites"

Chauncey DeVega
Two vaccine syringes (Getty Images/golibtolibov)

Who exactly are the vaccine holdouts?

Anthony DiMaggio
Joe Manchin and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Economist: BBB won't increase inflation

Michael Klein - The Conversation
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers brief remarks before a meeting with his coronavirus response coordinator Jeffrey Zients and members of the White House COVID-19 Response Team in the State Dining Room at the White House on December 09, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

5 things Biden can do without Manchin

Amanda Marcotte
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Thomas Jefferson, John Roberts and Abraham Lincoln (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Time for Dems to defy the Supreme Court

Thom Hartmann - Independent Media Institute
Tom Malinowski, Joe Manchin and Josh Gottheimer (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

As a third wave hits, politicians profit

Bob Hennelly - InsiderNJ
A picture taken on July 9, 2017, shows smoke billowing following an airstrike by US-led international coalition forces targeting Islamic State (IS) group in Mosul. Iraq will announce imminently a final victory in the nearly nine-month offensive to retake Mosul from jihadists, a US general said Saturday, as celebrations broke out among police forces in the city. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images)

The Pentagon's killing spree: No mistake

Norman Solomon
Gizmo the mogwai hides in a tool box in a scene from the 1984 film "Gremlins" (Warner Brothers/Getty Images)

Deck the halls with films of horror

Alison Stine
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