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Starbucks employees wait for results of a vote count, on December 9, 2021 in Buffalo, New York. - The ballots have been cast and employees of three Starbucks cafes in Buffalo have created the first union at outlets owned by the retail coffee giant in the United States. | In this handout provided by the U.S. Air Force, an air crew assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron assists evacuees aboard a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport on August 21, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. | Protesters march around downtown Minneapolis near the courthouse calling for justice for George Floyd after closing arguments in the Chauvin trial has ended on Monday, April 19, 2021 in Minneapolis, MN. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A bad year for the world: But still!

Medea Benjamin
A fallen white ceramic plate of spaghetti, with a fork beside it (Getty Images/Aleksandr Zubkov)

My year of cooking quick and dirty

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Manchinema: 2021's most villainous duo

Amanda Marcotte
Julian Assange gestures to the media from a police vehicle on his arrival at Westminster Magistrates court on April 11, 2019 in London, England. (Getty Images/Jack Taylor)

Why PEN America betrayed Assange

Chris Hedges
View of a mass meeting of 20,000 members of the League of the Friends of the New Germany, which was held in New York's Madison Square Garden. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

Fascism in America: Not all that new

Elayne Clift
A businessman reading fake news on mobile phone (Getty Images/Andry Djumantara)

2022: A New Year of misinformation

Anjana Susarla, Dam Hee Kim, Ethan Zuckerman - The Conversation
Joan Didion (Neville Elder/Corbis via Getty Images)

Joan Didion's timeless political writing

David Masciotra
Carl Clemons-Hopkins as Marcus in "Hacks," Demi Lovato, and Dua Saleh as Cal in "Sex Education" (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Netflix/Sam Taylor/HBO Max/Anne Marie Fox)

2021 was a very nonbinary year

Alison Stine
Democratic candidates for Senate Jon Ossoff (L) and Raphael Warnock (R) bump elbows on stage during a rally with US President-elect Joe Biden outside Center Parc Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 4, 2021. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

The Georgia way: How to win elections

Steven Rosenfeld - Independent Media Institute
Alex Jones, Donald Trump and Candace Owens (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump supporters caught in a COVID bind?

Amanda Marcotte
Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump and Kyle Rittenhouse (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The conservative urge to be a victim

Sophia A. McClennen
George Orwell, Joan Didion and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Didion, Orwell and the death of language

John Berthelsen
A woman casts her ballot inside the Basset Place Mall in El Paso, Texas on November 3, 2020. (Justin HAMEL / AFP)

Could Congress' unused power save us?

Thom Hartmann - Independent Media Institute
Yvonne Orji and Issa Rae in "Insecure" (Merie Wallace/HBO)

Savor the confident "Insecure" finale

Melanie McFarland
Protesters gather outside the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. | The Russian Revolution: Peasants plundering the properties of the rural rich (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Democracy vs. fascism: Cool story bro!

Andrew O'Hehir
USA, California, Los Angeles, traffic on the freeway (Getty Images)

Our misguided obsession with traffic

Brian Ladd - Undark
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla talks during a press conference with European Commission President after a visit to oversee the production of the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine at the factory of US pharmaceutical company Pfizer, in Puurs, on April 23, 2021. (JOHN THYS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

The grinches hoarding vaccine patents

Charlotte Kilpatrick
James Joyce and Stan Lee (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Culture war: How left and right united

Doug Neiss
Andrew Ridgeley and George Michael of Wham! perform on stage in London, 1984. (Photo by Phil Dent/Redferns/Getty Images)

The soulful revenge of "Last Christmas"

Annie Zaleski
Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, waves to the crowd while speaking at the podium as he concedes the presidency during Mitt Romney's campaign election night event at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center on November 7, 2012 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Why we can't have a meritocracy

Mary Barker
Viktor Orban, Marine Le Pen and Steve Bannon (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The far right builds a global think tank

John Feffer - TomDispatch.com
From left to right: Gun-toting Reps. Lauren Boebert and Thomas Massie with their families. (Photo illustration via Twitter/Salon)

White supremacist Christmas, with guns

Chauncey DeVega
Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The crime wave Fox News is ignoring

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

America got Scrooged — but there's hope

Brian Karem
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