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Woman holds an upside down US flag to protest against President Donald Trump outside the US Capitol ahead of his joint address to Congress in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. (ALLISON ROBBERT/AFP via Getty Images)

War could tap Trump's darkest impulses

Heather Digby Parton
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during the daily briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 26, 2025. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Karoline Leavitt is so annoying

Amanda Marcotte
Author and cartoonist Alison Bechdel (JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

Alison Bechdel faces her sellout fears

Andi Zeisler
Morgan Spector, Carrie Coon and Harry Richardson in "The Gilded Age" (Karolina Wojtasik/HBO)

Who wants to love a billionaire?

Melanie McFarland
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U.S. President Donald Trump delivers an address to the nation accompanied by U.S. Vice President JD Vance, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from the White House on June 21, 2025 in Washington, D.C. President Trump addressed the three Iranian nuclear facilities that were struck by the U.S. military early Sunday. (Carlos Barria - Pool/Getty Images)

Trump has chosen a path of insanity

Bill Curry
Pregnant woman in a hospital bed holding a blanket, feeling abdominal pain, risk of miscarriage (Getty Images/Motortion)

Under Trump, being pregnant is dangerous

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Hannah Katch
Jake Gyllenhaal as Jack Twist and Heath Ledger as Ennis Del Mar in "Brokeback Mountain" (Kimberly French/Focus Features)

"Brokeback" hurts more on the big screen

Coleman Spilde
The Animas River flows south through Cinnamon Pass, approximately 11 miles near Canby Mountain on September 23, 2023 in Rio Grande National Forest, Colorado. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

For sale by the GOP: Our public land

Michael Albertus
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American Chef Anthony Bourdain (Paulo Fridman/Corbis via Getty Images)

Anthony Bourdain didn't say that

Ashlie D. Stevens
President Donald J Trump arrives to speak about infrastructure and artificial intelligence to reporters in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on Tuesday, Jan 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

On Iran, Trump is as befuddled as ever

Heather Digby Parton
News photographers watch Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump onscreen at a townhall event hosted by Fox News on October 15, 2024 in Cumming, Georgia. (Megan Varner/Getty Images)

It sounds like 2003 on Fox News

Sophia Tesfaye
The end of America (Getty Images/Davide Zanin)

A failed nation-state in 150 days

Brian Karem
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People take part in the "No Kings" protest on June 14, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The cringe-ification of protest

Andi Zeisler
A kettlebell balances on an egg (J Studios / Getty Images)

How to eat like a strong woman

Ashlie D. Stevens
US President Donald Trump (R) meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 4, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump and America have become easy marks

Heather Digby Parton
Chicken snack wrap (Olgaorly / Getty Images )

The art of the almost-fancy snack wrap

Ashlie D. Stevens
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Donald Trump and John Eastman (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

John Eastman's downfall continues

Austin Sarat, Neil Goteiner
Dakota Johnson in "Materialists" (Atsushi Nishijima)

Like it or not, Dakota Johnson is a star

Coleman Spilde
Mavis Staples performs during the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024 (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Mavis Staples' gospel of resistance

Chauncey DeVega
A protester holds a US flag and a placard during a nationwide "No Kings" rally in Louisville, Kentucky, on June 14, 2025 (LEANDRO LOZADA/AFP via Getty Images)

"No Kings" should be just the beginning

Norman Solomon
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Shakshuka (Alexander Spatari / Getty Images )

No plan? Start with a tomato and egg

Ashlie D. Stevens
President Trump, sitting alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and First Lady Melania Trump, observes U.S. Army tanks traveling down Pennsylvania Avenue, during a celebration of the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary and his birthday on Flag Day, June 14, 2025 in Washington. (Tom Brenner For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

States' rights, but only for GOP states

Heather Digby Parton
French bulldog sleeping with a pacifier (damedeeso/getty images)

It's time to legitimize pet parents

Andi Zeisler
Bullet holes are seen in the door outside the home of State Sen. John Hoffman on June 15, 2025 in Champlin, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

MAGA blames Dems for Minnesota shooting

Amanda Marcotte
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