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Painter Jon McNaughton shows off a portrait of President Reagan at a taping of Sean Hannity's Fox News TV show during the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center February 23, 2017 in National Harbor, Maryland. Hosted by the American Conservative Union, CPAC is an annual gathering of right wing politicians, commentators and their supporters. (Zach D Roberts/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

That Trump painter: Why he's great

Andrew O'Hehir
(Getty/RapidEye)

Why being online makes you cynical

Keith A. Spencer
The first day of the Strike WEF march on Davos on 18th of January 2020 near Davos, Switzerland. The first day of the march started in Lanquart with speeches and hot food and ended in Schiers. The protest is planned to finish in Davos with a public meeting in the town on the day the WEF begins. The march is a three day protest against the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. The activists want climate justice and think that The WEF is for the world's richest and political elite only. (Kristian Buus/In Pictures via Getty Images)

The line from debt to the climate crisis

Bob Hennelly
Bruce Springsteen and US producer Jon Landau arrive for the screening of the movie "The promise:The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town " at the 5th Rome Film Festival in Rome on November 1, 2010. (TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images)

Jon Landau saw the future of rock & roll

Kenneth Womack
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Pat Cipollone and Jay Sekulow (Chip Somodevilla/Alex Wong/Getty Images/Salon)

Trump's defense: Constitutional disaster

Paul Rosenberg
OJ Simpson and Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

Donald Trump: The O.J. of politics

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez (Netflix)

Hernandez doc consumed by sex, not logic

D. Watkins
In this Friday, Jan. 18, 2019 file photo, anti-abortion activists protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court, during the March for Life in Washington. President Trump's call for a ban on late-term abortions is unlikely to prevail in Congress, but Republican legislators in several states are pushing ahead with tough anti-abortion bills of their own that they hope can pass muster with the reconfigured U.S. Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Trump's lies and anti-choice lies

Amanda Marcotte
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Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc )

GOP's hissy fit can't undo the truth

Heather Digby Parton
Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Media covers for Biden falsehoods

Joshua Cho - FAIR
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) leaves the Senate Chamber during a recess in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial at the U.S. Capitol January 21, 2020 in Washington, DC. Senators will vote Tuesday on the rules for the impeachment trial, which is expected to last three to five weeks. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Impeachment: No way back for GOP

Amanda Marcotte
In this screengrab taken from a Senate Television webcast, House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) speaks during impeachment proceedings against U.S. President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol on January 22, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Senate Television via Getty Images)

Dems lay out epic tale; media whiffs

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch
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In this Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012 file photo, U.S. soldiers, part of the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) walks, as a U.S. Chinook helicopter is seen on the back ground near the place where the foundation of a hospital was laid in Shindand, Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi)

Media: U.S. always has right to violence

Gregory Shupak - FAIR
White House counsel Pat Cipollone and attorney Jay Sekulow. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP/Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty Images)

Trump's case: Just let him do crimes!

Amanda Marcotte
Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump (Win McNamee/Drew Angerer/Getty Images/Salon)

McConnell to America: Screw you

Amanda Marcotte
Martin Luther King Jr., gives his "I Have a Dream" speech to a crowd before the Lincoln Memorial during the Freedom March in Washington, DC, on August 28, 1963. The widely quoted speech became one of his most famous. (Bettmann / Contributor / Getty Images)

Why MLK detested moderates

Bob Hennelly
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Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Impeachment and historical memory

Henry A. Giroux
People hold banners and chant slogans as they march from Union Square Park to Grand Central to protest the killing of 3 black men by police in 48 hours, in Manhattan, New York on July 7, 2016. (Volkan Furuncu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

MLK Day: For justice, confront our past

Marshan Allen, Miriam Aroni Krinsky
Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell (Getty Images/Salon)

Impeachment and the ghost of Jim Crow

Amanda Marcotte
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders participated in Democratic presidential primary debate at Drake University on January 14, 2020 in Des Moines, Iowa, while President Donald held his pwn "Keep America Great Rally" in Milwaukee, WI (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu Agency/Scott Olson/Getty Images/Salon)

When politics surrenders to minor BS

Amanda Marcotte
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) (R) listen during the Democratic presidential primary debate at Drake University on January 14, 2020 in Des Moines, Iowa. Six candidates out of the field qualified for the first Democratic presidential primary debate of 2020, hosted by CNN and the Des Moines Register. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Iowa debate gets ugly over gender

Amanda Marcotte
Saorise Ronan in "Little Women", & Constance Wu in "Hustlers" (Columbia Pictures/Annapurna Pictures)

Women-led films predicted own snubs

Amanda Marcotte
Democratic presidential hopefuls, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders participate of the sixth Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season co-hosted by PBS NewsHour & Politico at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California on December 19, 2019. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Dems: Don't fall for fear and outrage

Amanda Marcotte
Midsommar, Hustlers, Joker, and Glass (Getty Images/Universal Pictures/Annapurna Pictures/Proton Cinema/Warner Brothers Pictures/Salon)

"Joker" isn't remotely Oscar-worthy

Matthew Rozsa
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