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A U.S. Chinook military helicopter flies above the US embassy in Kabul on August 15, 2021. Several hundred employees of the US embassy in Kabul have been evacuated from Afghanistan, a US defense official said on August 15, 2021, as the Taliban entered the capital. (WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)

After the fall: Media erases reality

Gregory Shupak
Advocates against vaccine mandates protest in front of City Hall in downtown Los Angeles on August 14, 2021. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Proud Boys push unvaccinated terrorism

Amanda Marcotte
Gavin Newsom (GettyKevork Djansezian)

California recall: Disaster awaits

Norman Solomon
China's 600 km/h high-speed maglev transportation system makes debut on July 20, 2021, in Qingdao, Shandong Province. (Zhang Jingang/VCG via Getty Images)

Why Americans can’t have nice things

David Cay Johnston - DCReport
Brian Kilmeade, Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP already bored with Afghanistan

Amanda Marcotte
In this handout photo provided by the U.S. National Archives, Vice President Dick Cheney and President George W. Bush meet in the President's Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 in Washington, DC. (David Bohrer/U.S. National Archives via Getty Images)

Don't give Bush a pass on Afghanistan

Heather Digby Parton
President George W. Bush during his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. (Douglas Graham/Roll Call/Getty Images)

America has been lied into too many wars

Thom Hartmann - Independent Media Institute
Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis and Jake Gyllenhal (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why we care if celebrities bathe or not

Kylie Cheung
Joe Biden, the COVID-19 vaccine and the January 6th Capitol Riot (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden's task: Make America Grow Up

Amanda Marcotte
A protester dressed as a scary nurse holds a mispelled sign that reads "Submitt" at an anti-vaccination protest rally near City Hall, following the Los Angeles City Council's vote earlier this week on drafting an ordinance requiring proof of vaccination to enter many indoor public spaces in Los Angeles, on August 14, 2021. (DAVID MCNEW/AFP via Getty Images)

Surviving America's pandemic death cult

Chauncey DeVega
In this White House handout, U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris (off-camera) hold a video conference with the national security team to discuss the ongoing efforts to draw down our civilian footprint in Afghanistan August 16, 2021 at Camp David in Frederick County, Maryland. In addition, the President and Vice President were briefed on the earthquake in Haiti. (White House via Getty Images)

No, Biden didn't "lose" Afghanistan

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Protesters in front of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) building in Los Angeles, California on March 12, 2021, calling on OSHA to do more to protect workers from Farmer John's slaughterhouse where the total number of Covid-19 positive cases reached 789 as of March 11, totalling almost half the workforce of 1,837 workers. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Unions warned against a mask rollback

Bob Hennelly
Thomas Doherty and Jason Gothay on Gossip Girl (HBO Max)

TV ends the "hot for teacher" fantasy

Kylie Cheung
Climate change and environmental disasters (Getty Images/Roy Scott)

Is fear about climate change enough?

Kate Yoder - Grist
U.S. President Joe Biden (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Media learned nothing from Afghanistan

Amanda Marcotte
Six hands crossing fingers (Getty Images/RapidEye)

20 American behaviors considered rude

Adam D'Arpino, Erika Wolf - Mental Floss
A woman depositing a plastic bottle in a recycling bin (Getty Images/Andrew Fox)

Behavioral science won't fix the climate

Peter Sutoris
Ronald Reagan and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

America arrives at history's crossroads

Thom Hartmann - Independent Media Institute
Casey Johnson and CJ Franco on "FBoy Island" (Julie Corsetti/HBO Max)

The feminism of FBoy's mansplaining

Kylie Cheung
Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Kim Jong-Un and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The biggest of Republican Big Lies

Cody Cain
Omega and Hera Syndulla in "Star Wars: The Bad Batch" (Disney+)

Omega is Star Wars' clone MVP

Caroline Cao
Engraved Wall Street sign, New York, USA (Doug Armand/Getty Images)

Student debt is the 1%'s fault

Jeffrey J. Williams
Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo (Photo illustrated by Salon/Getty Images)

Cuomo, Trump and the politics of abuse

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Tobias Menzies and Sophie Okonedo in "Modern Love" (Christopher Saunders/Amazon)

"Modern Love" got my cancer story wrong

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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