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Relatives and neighbors of the Ahmadi family gathered around the incinerated husk of a vehicle targeted and hit earlier Sunday afternoon by an American drone strike, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images)

Drone attacks: The madness continues

Norman Solomon
Ed Asner as newspaper editor Lou Grant in "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," circa 1975 (Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

Ed Asner ushered in the secular rabbi

Gwydion Suilebhan, Steven Gimbel
Reproductive Rights Protest | A combination pack of mifepristone (L) and misoprostol tablets, two medicines used together, also called the abortion pill. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Elisa Wells/Plan C/Pete Marovich)

Texas extremists come for abortion pills

Lupe M. Rodríguez
Kanye West (Rich Fury/VF20/Getty Images for Vanity Fair)

Kanye's cruelty vs "cancel culture"

Kylie Cheung
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Joe Biden, Kevin McCarthy and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP looks to impeach as Trump's payback

Amanda Marcotte
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. (Taylor Crul/U.S. Air Force via Getty Images)

The graveyard of empire strikes back

Chris Hedges
Eviction notice on door of house (Getty Images)

Cruelty and dread are the point

Chauncey DeVega
Recently-arrived refugees from Afghanistan seen at a temporary camp at the U.S. Army's Rhine Ordnance Barracks (ROB), where they are being temporarily housed, on August 30, 2021 in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Several U.S. military facilities with the capacity to house up to several thousand evacuees are participating, in an operation called Operation Allied Refuge. (Sascha Schuermann/Getty Images)

A crushing blow to empire? Good

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
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Donald Trump | Hurricane | Atoms (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Hurricanes and COVID: GOP caused this

Heather Digby Parton
Members of the Supreme Court pose for a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on April 23, 2021. Seated from left: Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Standing from left: Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett. (Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images)

SCOTUS commission stuck in neutral

Aaron Belkin
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in "Candyman" (Universal Pictures)

No sweets for the sweet in new Candyman

Melanie McFarland
(Getty/bixpicture)

The dangers of dietary supplements

Shelby Bradford - Massive Science
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Rudolph Giuliani, attorney for President Donald Trump, conducts a news conference at the Republican National Committee, on lawsuits regarding the outcome of the 2020 presidential election on Thursday, November 19, 2020. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

The limits of public hygiene

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Lobster and Cheese (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/creacart/500)

In defense of mixing seafood and cheese

Ashlie D. Stevens
Activists hold placards during a demonstration (Sunil Pradhan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Why abortion roadblocks lead to violence

Kylie Cheung
Syringe with vaccine | Giant cross (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Kjell Brynildsen/Veerapong Boonporn/EyeEm)

Why evangelicals refuse the vaccine

Nathaniel Manderson
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Britney Spears and Lorde (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Kevin Mazur/Steven Ferdman)

Shift from body positivity to neutrality

Kylie Cheung
Scene with pigs from the film "Animal Farm" based on George Orwell, 1955. (Photo by ullstein bild / ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Orwell’s "Animal Farm" 75 years later

Mark Satta - The Conversation
Sick man with covid-19 symptoms in bed (Getty Images)

How we got breakthrough COVID

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Opened can of chick peas (Getty Images)

In defense of canned chickpeas

Nicole Karlis
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Donald Trump | The US Capitol Riot on January 6, 2021 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump should be mad about Jan. 6 probe

Heather Digby Parton
Donald Trump watching Fox News (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Fox News)

In the alternate reality of TrumpWorld

Chauncey DeVega
(Leonardo Carrato/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

The perils of magical thinking

Louise Fabiani - Undark
Drummer Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones at a British concert (Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

How Watts injected jazz into the Stones

Victor Coelho - The Conversation
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