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Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, Josh Hawley and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's "shock and awe" hits Republicans

Heather Digby Parton
SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk participates in a town hall-style meeting to promote early and absentee voting at Ridley High School on October 17, 2024 in Folsom, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Why Musk's trolling salute fell flat

Amanda Marcotte
First Lady Melania Trump and President Donald Trump, Jan. 20, 2025. (Saul Loeb-Pool/Getty Images)

We wanted it darker, apparently

Andrew O'Hehir
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump Jr., Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Usha Vance, Interior Secretary nominee Doug Burgum and Vice President-elect JD Vance applaud during the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. (Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump's triumphant celebration of scams

Amanda Marcotte
U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. First Lady Melania Trump inside Capital One Arena, in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

The inauguration was an absurd spectacle

Coleman Spilde
Merrick Garland and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How Garland stymied Trump on his way out

Austin Sarat
U.S. Vice President-elect former Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump arrive to inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Listless, uninspired and robotic

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Martin Luther King Jr. | Capitol Riot on January 6th, 2021 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A tale of two Americas

Audra Wilson, Esq., Lucy Di Rosa, PhD
Paddington In Peru (StudioCanal)

"Paddington" at 10: What we can learn?

Coleman Spilde
Former first lady Michelle Obama speaks on stage during the second day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on August 20, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Michelle Obama has no time to be phony

D. Watkins
Family members embrace while viewing their burned home during the Eaton fire in the Altadena area of Los Angeles county, California on January 9, 2025. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Real estate is also a service business

Zain Jaffer
Let's not watch the Presidential inauguration this time (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Turn the channel on the inauguration

Melanie McFarland, Hanh Nguyen, Kelly McClure, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Nardos Haile, Nicholas Liu, Amanda Marcotte
Donald Trump and the Tiktok app (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's new love of TikTok is dangerous

Amanda Marcotte
Tramell Tillman and Britt Lower in “Severance." (Apple TV+)

The prestige TV revolution was Lynchian

Melanie McFarland
Fernanda Torres as Eunice in "I’m Still Here” (Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics/Alile Onawale)

"I'm Still Here": Motherhood and memory

Coleman Spilde
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC, on January 14, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

The hidden truths of the Gaza deal

Norman Solomon
Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., talk during the annual Alfred E. Smith Foundation Dinner on October 17, 2024 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Trump's MAGA agenda already stalled

Heather Digby Parton
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks from the Oval Office of the White House on July 24, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Evan Vucci-Pool/Getty Images)

Biden's unprecedented farewell warning

Austin Sarat
Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Tech's war on "woke" is a war on workers

Amanda Marcotte
Donald Trump and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The stench of American politics

Brian Karem
Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

MAGA "populism" was a con job

Amanda Marcotte
Donald Trump and Samuel Alito (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A supreme double standard

Gregory L. Diskant, David A. Schulz
Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg (Getty Images/Salon)

Making American oligarchy great again

Heather Digby Parton
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth testifies during his Senate Armed Services confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on January 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Why Hegseth's misogynist past matters

Amanda Marcotte
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