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Pro-Trump protestors clash with police during the tally of electoral votes that would certify Joe Biden as the winner of the U.S. presidential election outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC on Wednesday, January 6, 2021. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Capitol Police's dubious Jan. 6 claims

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch
An Amazon-sponsored billboard urging employees to return their unionization ballots is seen on March 28, 2021, in Bessemer, Alabama. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

New union push in journalism

Bob Hennelly - InsiderNJ
"Shameless" cast Season 11 (Paul Sarkis/Showtime)

A gentrified farewell to "Shameless"

Ashlie D. Stevens
Protesters, demanding justice for George Floyd, gather in front of the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota United States on April 9, 2021. (Christopher Mark Juhn/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Do facts matter in a post-Trump America?

Amanda Marcotte
Tucker Carlson (Getty/Rich Polk)

Tucker's "great replacement" insecurity

Heather Digby Parton
American Voting Suppression (Getty Images)

GOP's plan to intimidate Black voters

Chauncey DeVega
Woman takes a selfie on a break from rollerblading (Getty Images)

Sports bras & leggings as femininity now

Holly Thorpe, Julie E. Brice - The Conversation
Ernest Hemingway at his home Cuba, late 1940s. (Courtesy of Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Boston)

Ken Burns' vicious Hemingway smear

David Masciotra
Pro-life activists demonstrate in front of the the US Supreme Court during the 47th annual March for Life on January 24, 2020 in Washington, DC. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

The ethically weak case against abortion

Nathan Nobis, Jonathan Dudley
Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's Big Lie — and Hitler's

Matthew Rozsa
Kong in "Godzilla vs. Kong" (Warner Bros. Pictures/ Legendary Pictures)

Godzilla vs. Kong recalls colonial fears

Priscilla Jolly - The Conversation
Altered image in phone (Illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why is political Twitter so godawful?

Paul Rosenberg
Rice noodle salad with shrimp and coconut ginger lime dressing (Lucian Truscott)

It's finally spring. Go eat outside!

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Members of the National Guard, outside the U.S. Capitol Building a day after the House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump, and over a week after a pro-Trump insurrectionist mob breached the security of the nations capitol on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021 in Washington, DC. An estimated 20,000 National Guard troops are expected to be deployed to the city to support law enforcement around three times the total number of American troops deployed abroad in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and Syria. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

The far right in uniform: How bad is it?

Nan Levinson - TomDispatch.com
US President Donald Trump is seen with Pastor Paula White at an event honoring Evangelical leadership in the State Dining Room of the White House on August 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Religious Trump voters stuck by him

Ryan Burge - The Conversation
Samantha Bee, Trevor Noah, John Oliver and Kate McKinnon (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Comedy Central/NBC/TBS/Warner Media Group)

Is political comedy dead now?

Sophia A. McClennen
John Boehner, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Blame Boehner for the GOP's "Crazytown"

Amanda Marcotte
High angle side view of watchful young man walking on green dollar signs against white background (Getty Images)

GoFundMe's privilege problem

Jeremy Snyder - Undark
Supporters of US President Donald Trump hold a rally outside the US Capitol as they protest the upcoming electoral college certification of Joe Biden as US President in Washington, DC on January 6, 2021. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

Three months later: We can't forget

Chauncey DeVega
US First Lady Jill Biden deplanes upon arrival at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on April 1, 2021. (MANDEL NGAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Sexism, hypocrisy & Jill Biden's tights

Ashlie D. Stevens
Students walking in corridor (Getty Images)

GOP wages war against US children

Amanda Marcotte
Fans celebrate Pride Night before a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers at Fenway Park (Adam Glanzman/Getty Images)

Sports still hostile for LGBTQ Americans

Rachel Allison, Chris Knoester - The Conversation
Chicken mushrooms in the forest (Getty Images)

My life-changing foray with fungi

Louise Fabiani - Undark
Jacob Anthony Angeli Chansley, known as the QAnon Shaman, is seen at a Trump rally in Dalton, Georgia on the 4th of January. He attended the Capitol riots on the 6th of January in Washington, DC. (Brent Stirton/Getty Images)

Are Trumpers in the dumps?

Chauncey DeVega
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