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Conservative political commentator, writer, and lawyer Ben Shapiro during a break of the filming of his show The Ben Shapiro Show on September 26, 2018 in Los Angles, CA (Jessica Pons/ For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Ben Shapiro can't hack Trump's grift

Amanda Marcotte
President Donald Trump bows his head during a Easter blessing by Bishop Harry Jackson, senior pastor at Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Md., in the Oval Office of the White House on April 10, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Al Drago - Pool/Getty Images)

Want to beat Trump? Wait him out

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Nick Cave (Pablo Gallardo/Redferns/Getty)

Nick Cave builds a church out of sorrow

Caryn Rose
US President Donald Trump speaks at a Hurricane Helene recovery briefing in a hangar at the Asheville Regional Airport in Fletcher, North Carolina, on January 24, 2025. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

How the right turned to revolution

Jim Sleeper
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Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd in "Friendship" (Courtesy of A24/Spencer Pazer)

"Friendship" shouldn't be this stressful

Coleman Spilde
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller speaks to reporters outside the White House, April 18, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Stephen Miller is ready for a long war

Heather Digby Parton
Teenage girls dressed in costumes with colorful school lockers in the background (Photo Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / AntonioSolano / Westend61)

Now the GOP wants to ban dress-up

Amanda Marcotte
Georgina Campbell as Tess in "Barbarian" (Courtesy of 20th Century Studios)

A not-so-likely Mother's Day classic

Coleman Spilde
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DJ Próvaí of Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap performs during the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, April 11, 2025. (Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images)

Irish rappers turned Fox News villains

Andrew O'Hehir
Make America Great Again Hats on Ground (Getty/David McNew)

MAGA remorse is real: It saved me

Rich Logis
John Malkovich in "The New Pope" (Gianni Fiorito/HBO)

Blessed be the memes and "The New Pope"

Melanie McFarland
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost addresses the crowd from the main central loggia balcony of the St Peter's Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in The Vatican, on May 8, 2025 (Getty Images / TIZIANA FABI/AFP)

The people's pope has eaten a hot dog

Ashlie D. Stevens
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U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to sign the "No Men in Women's Sports" executive order in the East Room of the White House on February 5, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump corruption: Bigger and better

Heather Digby Parton
George W. Bush and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s fake invasion: An old GOP trick

Amanda Marcotte
President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Feb. 26, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Team Trump is growing "disillusioned"

Brian Karem
"Andor" (Lucasfilm/Disney+)

Lies pave the path to the Death Star

Melanie McFarland
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Edward Martin, interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, March 25, 2025. (The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump's lap-dog DC prosecutor: Doomed?

Heather Digby Parton
Donald Trump, with Sean Duffy (L), speaks in the Cabinet Room of the White House on January 24, 2019. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's sexist "doll" defense of tariffs

Amanda Marcotte
(AP/Mark Lennihan)

Amazon blows off its poorest shoppers

Cara Michelle Smith
Teyana Taylor attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)

We need the Met Gala now more than ever

Coleman Spilde
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Former President Donald Trump and moderator Kristen Welker appear in a pre taped interview on “Meet the Press” at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, in Bedminster, NJ, Sep. 13, 2023. (William B. Plowman/NBC)

Saved by our fourth branch of government

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a press conference after being found guilty over hush-money charges at Trump Tower in New York City on May 31, 2024. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's not confused by his words of war

Jesselyn Radack
(l-r) Ashley Darby and Nick Montefour on "Love Hotel" (Ana York/Bravo)

The "Housewives" have never been so real

Coleman Spilde
Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) and US Senator from Ohio and Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance attend a remembrance ceremony on the 23rd anniversary of the September 11 terror attack on the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, in New York City on September 11, 2024. (ADAM GRAY/AFP via Getty Images)

Pariah nation: Trumpism rejected at cost

Heather Digby Parton
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