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Stand up comedian, actor and author George Carlin is shown performing on stage during a live concert appearance on January 13, 1996. (John Atashian/Getty Images)

George Carlin warned us about words

Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk
"Sinners" (Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures)

The radical, divine message of "Sinners"

Melanie McFarland
Stephen Miller and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Miller can't get plan past Trump judge

Heather Digby Parton
Donald Trump and Cryptocurrency (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's crypto racket hurts all wallets

Amanda Marcotte
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Climate change, conceptual illustration. (Getty Images / MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Chaos is the essence of climate change

Gernot Wagner
President Donald J. Trump speaks while Small Business Administration Linda McMahon listens on during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

When facts become seditious

Brian Karem
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (Reuters)

Bondi ramps up "treasonous" threat

Jesselyn Radack
Former US President Donald Trump arrives back to Trump Tower after the first day of his trial in New York City on April 15, 2024. (ADAM GRAY/AFP via Getty Images)

MAGA left out of Trump's one big win

Heather Digby Parton
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March on Washington | Black Live Matter Protest | Mass demonstration against the Vietnam war (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Vietnam to Gaza: A collapse of morality

Norman Solomon
US President Donald Trump (L) congratulates Senior Counselor to the President Stephen Bannon during the swearing-in of senior staff in the East Room of the White House on January 22, 2017 in Washington, DC. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

MAGA's coping strategy: More fantasy

Gregg Barak
Portrait of American financier Jeffrey Epstein (left) and real estate developer Donald Trump as they pose together at the Mar-a-Lago estate, Palm Beach, Florida, 1997. (Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)

MAGA in chaos after Epstein victim dies

Amanda Marcotte
Rev. Dr. William Barber (Jemal Countess/Getty Images)

No praying allowed, pastor arrested

Bob Hennelly - Work-Bites
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Bob Dylan (Fiona Adams/Redferns)

Bob Dylan can do whatever he wants

Caryn Rose
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)

An American emergency at 100 days

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Donald Trump reacts at the 2024 Bitcoin Conference in Nashville, TN. (Johnnie Izquierdo for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump is more popular than he appears

Chauncey DeVega
Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be U.S. Attorney General, arrives for a meeting with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, in the Russell Senate Office Building on December 2, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

DOJ tees up process to jail journalists

Austin Sarat
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Miles Caton as Sammie Moore in "Sinners" (Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures)

"Sinners" defies Black history erasure

Rann Miller
Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump, holds a town hall at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center on October 14, 2024 in Oaks, Pennsylvania. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Trump driven mad by abysmal poll numbers

Heather Digby Parton
Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth leaves a meeting with Republican Senators at the Capitol in Washington, DC, on November 21, 2024. (Allison Robbert for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Hegseth’s Orwellian purge strikes fear

Jeffrey Colvin
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) speaks with reporters as she departs a House Republican Conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol on September 10, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

Why MAGA loves a childish tantrum

Amanda Marcotte
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John Oliver of "Last Week Tonight" (left) and Bill Owens (right) of "60 Minutes" (Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images/broadcastertr / Courtesy HBO / Courtesy Paramount)

The worth of "60 Minutes"' legacy

Melanie McFarland
Elon Musk arrives for US President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Elon's "tech-bro Maoism" is nothing new

Mark Lawrence Schrad
Former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump attend the 79th Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner at the Hilton Midtown in New York, October 17, 2024. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

No time for "nerd prom." Ditch the WHCD

Brian Karem
Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg in "You" (Clifton Prescod/Netflix)

"You" and the illusion of change

Erin Qualey
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