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Exhausted businesswoman having a headache at her desk (Getty Images)

The burnout epidemic

Sara Konrath
US Capitol Building (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Our politics is broken. It can be fixed

Katherine M. Gehl, Michael E. Porter
A worker cleans a voting machine after it was used at McKinley Technology High School on primary election day on June 2, 2020 in Washington, DC. On Tuesday, nine states and the District of Columbia are holding primaries, most of which were previously delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

How to incentivize candidates to listen

David Daley, Rob Richie
David Swaray, also known as Davey Dave, joined hundreds of protestors joined at the Government Center to support CAIR-Minnesota to call for the arrest of the police who killed George Floyd. (Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via Getty Images)

The downfall of a president

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Protestors take part in a Black Lives Matter march (PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP via Getty Images)

This movement deserves better media

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch
Hannah Gadsby: Douglas (Netflix)

Hannah Gadsby, autism comedy pioneer

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Demonstrators march on Pennsylvania Avenue towards the Capitol to protest the death of George Floyd (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Protesters aren't pandemic hypocrites

Amanda Marcotte
U.S. President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr speak in the Oval Office before signing an executive order related to regulating social media (Doug MIlls-Pool/Getty Images)

Barr takes command: It's not good

Heather Digby Parton
Two police officers take a knee during a demonstration by protesters in Times Square over the death of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer (BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP via Getty Images)

Copaganda: Media still playing along

Sophia Tesfaye
Sen. Tom Cotton (ANDREW HARNIK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Rebellion at the New York Times

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch
Actor John Boyega speaks to the crowd during a Black Lives Matter protest in Hyde Park on June 3, 2020 in London, United Kingdom. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

John Boyega, the Hollywood rebel we need

Melanie McFarland
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump visit the Saint John Paul II National Shrine, to lay a ceremonial wreath and observe a moment of remembrance under the Statue of Saint John Paul II on June 2, 2020 in Washington,DC. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

"Bunker Boy" Trump wants to edit reality

Amanda Marcotte
Police officers search men accused of looting during race riots in Detroit, Michigan | Police officers intervene people who exit damaged store after the glass was knocked out in Midtown, NYC (Getty Images/Salon)

The 2020 rebellion: Biden is no answer

Asad Haider
Edie Falco in "Tommy" (CBS)

TV loves cops but dehumanizes protesters

Melanie McFarland
Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

How Trump bungled the pandemic response

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump holding up a bible | Protestors gathering across the street from the White House during a demonstration over the death of George Floyd (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's crackdown is backfiring

Amanda Marcotte
Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, Barack Obama and Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

Presidents and disorder: He's the worst

Heather Digby Parton
Police officers clash with protesters during a demonstration over the Minneapolis death of George Floyd while in police custody on May 29, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

"Bad apples" or a blue code of silence?

Gregory Antollino
Police officers clash with protestors near the White House on June 1, 2020 as demonstrations against George Floyd's death continue. - Police fired tear gas outside the White House late Sunday as anti-racism protestors again took to the streets to voice fury at police brutality. (Getty Images)

Trump's photo-op: Not a hit with media

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch
Donald Trump | Protestors are tear gassed as the police disperse them near the White House on June 1, 2020 as demonstrations against George Floyd's death continue. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

This is what Trumpers voted for

Amanda Marcotte
Police officers pepper spray a woman next to the Colorado State Capitol as protests against the death of George Floyd continue (Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

Trump's chaos and cruelty got us here

Bob Cesca
A journalist is seen bleeding after police started firing tear gas and rubber bullets near the fifth police precinct following a demonstration to call for justice for George Floyd on Saturday in Minneapolis. (Chandan Khanna/Getty Images)

Media under attack — and shifts focus

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos | Riot police confront demonstrators gathered over the death of George Floyd an unarmed black man who died after being pinned down by a white police (Salon/Elif Ozturk/Anadolu Agency/Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Amazon is not an ally

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump | Two NYPD cars drove into a crowd of protestors (Photo illustration by Salon/NBC/Getty Images)

Donald Trump's police state

Amanda Marcotte
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