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Second Lady Usha Vance delivers remarks to military personnel and their families in Jacksonville, North Carolina, on Nov. 19, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Usha Vance doesn't do dishes

Amanda Marcotte
President Donald Trump New York Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani in the Oval Office on Nov. 21, 2025. (Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images)

Mamdani's Trump meeting was a risky move

Norman Solomon
A man walks past a placard of the YOKO ONO MUSIC OF THE MIND exhibition at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Duesseldorf, western Germany on September 26, 2024 (INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images)

A Yoko exhibit free of Beatles blame

Caryn Rose
A cozy Thanksgiving dinner (SeventyFour/Getty Images)

Your Thanksgiving questions, answered

Ashlie D. Stevens
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Elon Musk during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, March 24, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Elon Musk's DOGE leaves a deadly legacy

Heather Digby Parton
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before boarding Air Force One on Nov. 16, 2025.

Trump’s threats show he is unfit to lead

Sabrina Haake
David Harbour as Jim Hopper and Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven in "Stranger Things" (Netflix)

We outgrew "Stranger Things" years ago

Melanie McFarland
Elon Musk and X, formerly Twitter, logo. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Has social media's reckoning arrived?

Sophia Tesfaye
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Donald Trump and Charlie Kirk at America Fest 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Kirk's death is tearing MAGA apart

Amanda Marcotte
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas as Agnes Borg Pettersen and Elle Fanning as Rachel Kemp in "Sentimental Value" (Kasper Tuxen Andersen/Neon)

"Sentimental Value" speaks without words

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

MAGA is starting to see the real Trump

Heather Digby Parton
Thanksgiving holiday pie (Getty images/kajakiki)

MAGA's war on poor hurts everyone

Kirk Swearingen
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(Probal Rashid/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Many are leaving MAGA, and it's not easy

Rich Logis
Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba and Ariana Grande as Glinda in "Wicked: For Good" (Giles Keyte/Universal Pictures)

"Wicked: For Good" sinks under its greed

Coleman Spilde
President Donald Trump jokes with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office on Nov. 18, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump's piggish behavior hits new low

Brian Karem
Donald Trump | Social Security checks are run through a printer at the U.S. Treasury printing facility (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The real cost of Trump’s tariff checks

Chauncey DeVega
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Legacy news up in flames (Malte Mueller/Getty Images)

Legacy media enabled Jeffrey Epstein

Andi Zeisler
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks on stage on the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 15, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

What is up with Marjorie Taylor Greene?

Heather Digby Parton
President Donald Trump meets with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office on Nov. 18, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump's MBS embrace shames all of us

Austin Sarat
Claire Danes as Aggie Wiggs and Matthew Rhys as Nile Jarvis in "The Beast in Me" (Chris Saunders/Netflix)

The Beast in Me is the story of our era

Melanie McFarland
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(Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Kent Nishimura / Kypros)

MAGA's bizarre Epstein diversion fails

Sophia Tesfaye
President Donald Trump rests his eyes during an event in the Oval Office on Nov. 6, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

How Trump's MRI spurred the Epstein vote

Amanda Marcotte
(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump’s greatest crime is invisible

Troy Farah
People rally in favor of single-payer healthcare for all Californians as the US Senate prepares to vote on the Senate GOP health care bill, outside the office of California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, June 27, 2017 in South Gate, California. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

The GOP is close to destroying Obamacare

Heather Digby Parton
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