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Stephen Ayres (L), who has pleaded guilty to entering the Capitol illegally on January 6, talks to US Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn (R) at the conclusion of a full committee hearing on "the January 6th Investigation," on Capitol Hill on July 12, 2022, in Washington, DC. (OLIVER CONTRERAS/AFP via Getty Images)

MAGA cultists aren't innocent dupes

Amanda Marcotte
Sidney Powell, Donald Trump and Mike Flynn (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The coup was crazier than it seems

Heather Digby Parton
Stephen Ayres (L), who entered the U.S. Capitol illegally on January 6, 2021, and Jason Van Tatenhove (R), who served as national spokesman for the Oath Keepers and as a close aide to Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, are sworn-in during the seventh hearing by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building on July 12, 2022, in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Was this enough for Merrick Garland?

Chauncey DeVega
Quinta Brunson in "Abbott Elementary" | Selena Gomez in "Only Murders in the Building" | Jung Ho-yeon in "Squid Game" (Photo illustration by Salon/ABC/Scott Everett White/Craig Blankenhorn/Hulu/Noh Juhan/Netflix)

Emmy noms: The good, bad & "Squid Game"

Melanie McFarland
Rupert Murdock, Jerry Falwell and George W. Bush (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The right and religion: A short history

Thom Hartmann - Independent Media Institute
NATO stabbing the world (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

NATO: A threat to our planet's future

Chris Hedges
Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman, Rhea Seehorn as Kim Wexler in "Better Call Saul" (Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Television)

"Better Call Saul" goes deeper into grey

Melanie McFarland
U.S. President Joe Biden bows his head in prayer (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Biden's bewildering reaction to Roe

Amanda Marcotte
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)

DOJ drops a bomb on Bannon's plot

Heather Digby Parton
Sidse Babett Knudsen as Birgitte Nyborg in "Borgen" and US Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett (Photo illustration by Salon / Mike Kollöffel / Netflix / Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

The Supreme Court and Birgitte Nyborg

Celia Viggo Wexler
Stranger Things | Jurassic World: Dominion (Photo illustration by Salon/Netflix/Universal Pictures/Amblin Entertainment)

Stranger Things should go full Jurassic

Alison Stine
Money talks (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Bluberries)

Tax the rich: The really, really rich

Bob Lord, Dylan Dusseault
The US Capitol building is seen as abortion rights activists protest in Washington, DC, on June 26, 2022, two days after the US Supreme Court scrapped half-century constitutional protections for the procedure. (SAMUEL CORUM/AFP via Getty Images)

Seven days in June: The SCOTUS coup

Robert S. McElvaine
Samuel Alito, John Roberts and Clarence Thomas (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The week SCOTUS trashed the Constitution

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Anson Mount as Pike of the Paramount+ original series "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" (Marni Grossman/Paramount+)

Boldly take us where we've been, Pike

Melanie McFarland
James Caan in a wheelchair in a scene from the film 'Misery', 1990 (Columbia Pictures/Getty Images)

James Caan made a writer a rock star

Alison Stine
Laura Ingraham (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Ingraham ups call to "defund" education

Amanda Marcotte
Pat Cipollone, Donald Trump, and John Dean (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's Watergate: Cipollone speaks up

Heather Digby Parton
BLM protesters gather outside of Barclays Center and take streets in Brooklyn, New York City, United States on July 6, 2022 to protest against the killing of Jayland Walker, by Akron Police in Akron, Ohio. | Mourners react at a memorial site for the victims of a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade, on July 6, 2022 in Highland Park, Illinois. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency/Jim Vondruska)

New American traditions born of violence

D. Watkins
Brad Raffensperger, Donald Trump and Bill Barr (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump, Macbeth and the ruins of the GOP

Peter C. Herman
Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven in "Stranger Things" (Courtesy of Netflix)

How to fix Stranger Things' final season

Alison Stine
President Joe Biden speaks with governors on protecting access to reproductive Health Care at the White House on July 01, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

What's behind Joe Biden's reality show?

Brian Karem
Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Sara D. Davis)

Trump turned America into a war zone

Andrea Mazzarino - TomDispatch.com
A Springfield Armory Hellcat 9mm micro-sized pistol that has fired 20,000 rounds is displayed with ammunition shell casings during the National Rifle Association (NRA) Annual Meeting at the George R. Brown Convention Center, in Houston, Texas on May 28, 2022. - America's powerful National Rifle Association kicked off a major convention in Houston Friday, days after the horrific massacre of children at a Texas elementary school, but a string of high-profile no-shows underscored deep unease at the timing of the gun lobby event. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Gun violence: Both/and, not either/or

Christopher Kilmartin, Ronald F. Levant
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