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A protester holding a placard expressing her opinion in front of police during a memorial march to mark the one year anniversary since the Louisville Metro Police Department shot and killed Breonna Taylor at her home in Louisville. (Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

How dissent gets criminalized

Eric Berkowitz
Cindy Hyde-Smith (Getty/Drew Angerer)

The GOP turns their #1 issue into a joke

Amanda Marcotte
U.S. President Joe Biden stops to talk to the media after stepping off Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on March 14, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden were traveling from Wilmington, Delaware, where they spent the weekend with family and friends. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Biden's climate agenda might be "quiet"

Shannon Osaka - Grist
jork in her iconic swan dress on the Oscars red carpet on March 25, 2001 (Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage)

Björk's swan dress, 20 years later

Manuela Lopez Restrepo
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Workers and organizers are pushing for what would be one of the biggest victories for labor in the United States over the past few decades if successful in the first Amazon wharehouse union election in Bessemer, Alabama, where worker's ballots must reach the regional office of the National Labor Relations Board by March 29 to be counted. | Demonstrators mourn for the deaths of victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, New York, New York, 1911. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Lessons of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Bob Hennelly
View of demonstrators, many with signs, as they participate in the March For Our Lives rally against gun violence, near Columbus Circle, New York, New York, March 24, 2018. Among the visible signs are ones that read 'Who Would Have to Die from Gun Violence Before You Would Support Gun Control?' and 'No More Silence End Gun Violence.' (Barbara Alper/Getty Images)

Can electoral politics save us?

Amanda Marcotte
Healthcare workers walk out of a King Sooper's Grocery store after a gunman opened fire on March 22, 2021 in Boulder, Colorado. Dozens of police responded to the afternoon shooting in which at least one witness described three people who appeared to be wounded, according to published reports. (Chet Strange/Getty Images)

Two mass shootings: We're barely shocked

Chauncey DeVega
Police respond at a King Sooper's grocery store where a gunman opened fire on March 22, 2021 in Boulder, Colorado. Ten people, including a police officer, were killed in the attack. (Chet Strange/Getty Images)

Blame the NRA for a nation of sociopaths

Amanda Marcotte
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Police tape is seen outside a massage parlor where a person was shot and killed on March 16, 2021, in Atlanta, Georgia. - Eight people were killed in shootings at three different spas in the US state of Georgia on March 16 and a 21-year-old male suspect was in custody, police and local media reported, though it was unclear if the attacks were related. (ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP via Getty Images)

Racism, misogyny, guns and Atlanta

Chauncey DeVega
Close up of test tubes with toxic labels (Getty Images)

The plausible lab-leak hypothesis

Norman Paradis - Undark
Face Of Evil (Original illustration by Mr. Fish)

The evil within: Fascism and Atlanta

Chris Hedges
Justice League: Snyder Cut (Photo is courtesy of HBO Max)

A "Justice League" for Whedon's sins

Melanie McFarland
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Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ron Johnson and Rand Paul (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty images)

Don't feed GOP trolls. Expose them

Amanda Marcotte
Atlanta Shooter, Robert Aaron Long | Nominee for Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Atlanta and the threat to democracy

Chauncey DeVega
Cross at the Evangelical Church (Getty Images)

Evangelicals, male supremacy and Atlanta

Michael Rea
At the Wyomissing, Pennsylvania library, pictured are three of six Dr. Seuss books that will no longer be published because they "portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong." (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)

What should we do with Dr. Seuss books?

Monica Eileen Patterson - The Conversation
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Friends enjoying music on speaker during rooftop party at terrace against sky (Getty Images)

The pandemic is punishing for extroverts

Mary Elizabeth Williams
"The Simpsons" Season 32 episode "Undercover Burns" (FOX)

"The Simpsons'" politics make no sense

Keith A. Spencer
Gerald R. Ford, Jr. with his mother Dorothy Gardner Ford and half-brother Jim Ford. 1928 (Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum)

Gerald Ford's mom: Women's history hero

Matthew Rozsa
People going about leisure activities on a Sunday afternoon and daily routines while wearing face masks (Diego Cupolo/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Why the immunocompromised need a vaccine

Francesco Zangari - Massive Science
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Michael Lindell, CEO of MyPillow Inc., speaks during a campaign rally for President Donald Trump at the Duluth International Airport on September 30, 2020 in Duluth, Minnesota. The rally is Trump's first after last night's Presidential Debate. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

MyPillow, MyMovie, MyFascistAmerica

Andrew O'Hehir
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Purity culture inspired Georgia killings

Ashlie D. Stevens
Michael Stipe of REM performs at Las Ventas Bullring on October 1, 2008 in Madrid, Spain (Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images)

REM's much-maligned "Shiny Happy People"

Annie Zaleski
Working at home during quarantine during a coronavirus pandemic (Getty Images)

The end of workaholic culture

Matthew Rozsa
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