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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a tour of the Terrorist Confinement Center (CECOT) on March 26, 2025 in Tecoluca, El Salvador. (Alex Brandon-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump admin frees "worst of the worst"

Charles R. Davis
Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Tempestt Bledsoe in "The Cosby Show" (Carsey-Werner Television)

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Gen X's TV brother

Melanie McFarland
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS)

Colbert's firing tests free expression

Heather Digby Parton
President Donald Trump at the White House (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Epstein gives MAGA a post-Trump future

Amanda Marcotte
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Ana da Silva and Gina Birch of The Raincoats (Martyn Goodacre/Getty Images)

Your favorite band's favorite band

Caryn Rose
A mushroom cloud after an atomic blast, 1950s. (Lambert/Getty Images)

We're still living an atomic nightmare

Eric Ross - TomDispatch.com
Donald Trump | Trump Tower (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Greed vs. integrity in the Age of Trump

Chauncey DeVega
Indian takeout (adamkaz / Getty Images )

Store-bought is fine. This is better

Ashlie D. Stevens
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American Flag And Bible (Getty Images/ehrlif)

The battle for the Bible — and America

Liz Theoharis, Noam Sandweiss-Back - TomDispatch.com
David Corenswet stars as Superman (Warner Bros.)

Why MAGA's Superman tantrum matters

Amanda Marcotte
(Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Tasos Katopodis / Iuliia Pilipeichenko)

Sugar-coating resistance the right way

Andi Zeisler
A Scooby Doo Balloon passes the National Archives. (Photo by Tracy A. Woodward/Getty Images)

Trump's US is a "Scooby-Doo" episode

Alex Galbraith
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Stephen Colbert (CBS)

The cruel joke of ousting Colbert

Melanie McFarland
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott listens to President Donald Trump's address during a tour to an unfinished section of the border wall on June 30, 2021 in Pharr, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Can Texas GOP steal the midterms now?

David Daley
Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal in "Eddington" (Courtesy of A24)

We don't need any more COVID movies

Coleman Spilde
Displaced Palestinian children push into a queue to get a portion of cooked food from a charity kitchen in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, ahead of the iftar fast-breaking meal during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on March 9, 2025. (OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images)

War is also an assault on public health

Andrea Mazzarino - TomDispatch.com
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Sour candy for sale (Oliver Strewe / Getty Images )

I devoured Japan’s sourest sweets

Joy Saha
Donald Trump | US Supreme Court (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

SCOTUS weakens separation of powers

Sabrina Haake
Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why MAGA hates science so much

Kirk Swearingen
Lena Dunham in "Too Much" (Netflix)

You can stop blaming Lena Dunham now

Andi Zeisler
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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent at New York Federal Plaza Immigration Court on July 17, 2025. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's ICE may draw the wrong recruits

Geoffrey Grammer
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) speaks at a press conference on July 15, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

GOP's foreign aid vote will cost lives

Heather Digby Parton
People holds signs calling for the release of Justice Department files regarding late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. (RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

Desperate Trump fires top Epstein expert

Amanda Marcotte
President Donald Trump boards Air Force One on July 13, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump is causing emotional turbulence

Chauncey DeVega
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