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Fox News host Tucker Carlson (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The desperation driving Tucker Carlson

Amanda Marcotte
OJ Adeyemi and daughter Adenike listen to people speak before they march through the streets after the verdict was announced for Derek Chauvin on April 20, 2021 in Atlanta, United States. Former police officer Derek Chauvin was on trial on second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter charges in the death of George Floyd May 25, 2020. After video was released of then-officer Chauvin kneeling on Floyds neck for nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds, protests broke out across the U.S. and around the world. The jury found Chauvin guilty on all three charges. (Megan Varner/Getty Images)

Is Chauvin verdict "justice"? Not really

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

The right makes Derek Chauvin a martyr

Amanda Marcotte
Trevor Noah speaks onstage during the 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards at Los Angeles Convention Center on March 14, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

Trevor Noah's wit is an effective weapon

Sophia A. McClennen
Marjorie Taylor-Greene, Maxine Waters and Kevin McCarthy (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP attacks on Waters and white whining

Amanda Marcotte
Preparatory to their filing a $500,000 damage suit against the girl's mother, Mrs. Maryon Hewitt McCarter, two California physicians, and a psychiatrist, Miss Ann Cooper Hewitt, (right), and her attorney, Russel P. Tyler, are shown making final depositions. The charges claimed her mother and the doctors conspired to perform an operation rendering her sterile. (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

The forced sterilization of an heiress

Audrey Clare Farley
Infantrymen of the US 8th Army pour ashore in the Subic Bay area of Luzon Island in the northern Philippines, en route to Manila during World War II. (Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Unraveling of the American empire

Chris Hedges
Young pregnant woman being examined during pregnancy while coronavirus pandemic (Getty Images)

Death rate rises with anti-abortion laws

Amanda Marcotte
Saucy: Citrus Infused Oils (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Your complete guide to infused olive oil

Ashlie D. Stevens
Young woman behind prison bars (Getty Images)

A survivor, victimized all over again

Elayne Clift
A McDonald's employee sweeps up outside the restaurant on April 15, 2015 in New York, United States. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

How corporations crush the working class

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
Indigenous groups and opponents of the Enbridge Energy Line 3 oil pipeline replacement project protest its construction across northern Minnesota. The proposed route for Line 3 crosses 227 lakes and rivers, including the Mississippi River and rivers that feed directly into Lake Superior. (Michael Siluk/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Wall Street's new greenwashing

Alec Connon
A placard states "ABOLISH POLICE" during a march to protest the death of Daunte Wright on April 13, 2021 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. People have taken to the streets to protest after Daunte Wright, a 20-year old black man, was shot and killed by police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. (Mark Makela/Getty Images)

Dismantle the current system of policing

Sirry Alang
Japanese-Americans Interned at Santa Anita (Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

Anti-Asian hate crimes are nothing new

Matthew Rozsa
The People vs. the Klan (CNN)

The woman who took down the KKK

Rashad Grove - Mental Floss
Music video for "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)" by Lil Nas X (Sony Entertainment)

Lil Nas X's mockery of demonization

S. Kyle Johnson - The Conversation
American And Israeli Flags Waving With Wind On Blue Sky (Getty Images)

Israel and the U.S.: A tie that destroys

Doug Neiss
Aerial view of a military building, The Pentagon, Washington DC, USA (Getty Images)

Making sense of a viral military

Andrea Mazzarino - TomDispatch.com
Mason Temple and Antonia Gentry in "Ginny & Georgia" (Netflix)

A cringey talk about biracial identity

Melanie McFarland
A press pass and tape recorder on a chair (Getty Images)

Let's get rid of political reporters

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch
A crime lab technician (L) works in the parking lot of the site of a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, Indiana on April 16, 2021. - A gunman has killed at least eight people at the facility before turning the gun on himself in the latest in a string of mass shootings in the country, authorities said. The incident came a week after President Joe Biden branded US gun violence an "epidemic" and an "international embarrassment" as he waded into the tense debate over gun control, a powerful political issue in the US. (JEFF DEAN/AFP via Getty Images)

America's deadly minority rule problem

Amanda Marcotte
Pro-Trump protestors clash with police outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC on Wednesday, January 6, 2021. | Police in riot gear toss a projectile at protesters after they refused to leave the area after the police killing of Duante Wright during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center near where Derek Chauvin is on trial in the death of George Floyd, in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, United States on April 11, 2021. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Crackdown in Minn.; restraint at Capitol

Chauncey DeVega
A US soldier holds the national flag ahead of a handover ceremony at Leatherneck Camp in Lashkar Gah in the Afghan province of Helmand on April 29, 2017. US Marines returned to Afghanistan's volatile Helmand April 29, where American troops faced heated fighting until NATO's combat mission ended in 2014, as embattled Afghan security forces struggle to beat back the resurgent Taliban. The deployment of some 300 Marines to the poppy-growing southern province came one day after the militants announced the launch of their "spring offensive", and as the Trump administration seeks to craft a new strategy in Afghanistan. (WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Out of Afghanistan? Nope, not exactly

Norman Solomon
The Vaccine as Horror Genre (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP's anti-vaxx cult meant to hurt Biden

Amanda Marcotte
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