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Annie Murphy in "Kevin Can F**k Himself" (Zach Dilgard/AMC)

Who says sitcom women must have friends?

Melanie McFarland
A burned residence smolders during the Bear fire, part of the North Lightning Complex fires, in unincorporated Butte County, California on September 09, 2020. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

A climate view from California

Rebecca Gordon - TomDispatch.com
Former U.S. President Donald Trump during a rally on July 3, 2021 in Sarasota, Florida. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images)

Trump's Big Lie gets its best defense

Andrew O'Hehir
People hold up signs during a rally against "critical race theory" (CRT) being taught in schools at the Loudoun County Government center in Leesburg, Virginia on June 12, 2021. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

The futility of arguing with the right

Sophia A. McClennen
Martin Henderson and Alexandra Breckenridge in "Virgin River" (Netflix)

Unsexy allure of Netflix's Virgin River

Kaitlin Thomas
Person's hands holding prison bars (Getty Images)

Cutting child poverty is tough on crime

Gwen Adshead
Jerry Falwell Sr, Pat Robertson, Franklin Graham and Robert Jeffress (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How evangelicals abandoned Christianity

Nathaniel Manderson
A painting for the US Army "Stars and Stripes" newspaper shows a downed US Army Air Force pilot fighting off sharks with a knife in 1944 somewhere in the Pacific Ocean (Illustration by Ed Vebell/Getty Images)

How WWII spawned our shark obsession

Janet M. Davis - The Conversation
Anti-vaccine rally protesters hold signs outside of Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, on June 26, 2021. (MARK FELIX/AFP /AFP via Getty Images)

Republicans: The Death Wish Party

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Scarlett Johansson and Florence Pugh in "Black Widow" (Marvel Studios)

Black Widow's reproductive rebuttal

Kylie Cheung
Kevin Can F**k Himself (Zach Dilgard/AMC)

The mythos of the "meat and potato man"

Ashlie D. Stevens
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference held in the Hyatt Regency on February 27, 2021 in Orlando, Florida. Begun in 1974, CPAC brings together conservative organizations, activists, and world leaders to discuss issues important to them. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Recasting anti-vax govs as murderers

Terry H. Schwadron - DCReport
Tucker Carlson | Twitter and Facebook (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Conservatives are addicted to COVID lies

Amanda Marcotte
Vice President Mike Pence presides over a joint session of Congress to certify the 2020 Electoral College results after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol earlier in the day on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on January 6, 2021. - Members of Congress returned to the House Chamber after being evacuated when protesters stormed the Capitol and disrupted a joint session to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. (ERIN SCHAFF/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's generals feared coup. Did Pence?

Heather Digby Parton
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army General Mark A. Milley (R) listens while US President Donald Trump speaks before a meeting with senior military leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC on October 7, 2019. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's military coup almost happened

Chauncey DeVega
Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The Bernie-Joe bromance: Good or bad?

Norman Solomon
Lauren Boebert, Rand Paul and Tucker Carlson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP's pro-virus campaign is a success

Amanda Marcotte
U.S. President Joe Biden arrives to speak about voting rights at the National Constitution Center on July 13, 2021 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Biden and Congressional Democrats are set to make another push for sweeping voting rights legislation as Republican state legislatures across the country continue to pass controversial voting access laws. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Biden's great speech isn't enough

Chauncey DeVega
Alternative milks (Getty Images/Natalia Klenova)

Alt-milks and the Italian kitchen

Michael La Corte
Donad Trump and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Democrats' spending surge won't save us

Amanda Marcotte
A protester with a flare poses holding a sign calling for people to "wake up" during a "World Wide Rally For Freedom" protest, a QAnon adjacent conspiracy-theory movement. (Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

The enduring power of Trump's Big Lie

Chauncey DeVega
Brett Kavanaugh and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump realizes Kavanaugh played him

Heather Digby Parton
In this photograph taken on January 3, 2018, Afghan commandos forces patrol during ongoing US-Afghan military operation against Islamic State militants in Achin district of Nangarhar province. Afghan security forces are conducting most of the fighting against the Taliban and other insurgent groups as US troops operate alongside them in a training capacity and are frequently on the front lines. (NOORULLAH SHIRZADA/AFP via Getty Images)

Out of Afghanistan at last — now Iraq?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Beyonce in "Black Is King" (Travis Matthews/Disney+)

What the Emmys don't get about Beyoncé

Melanie McFarland
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