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Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk is promoting the organization's "All-American Halftime Show." (Caylo Seals/Getty Images)

MAGA's alt halftime looks like a flop

Amanda Marcotte
Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day performs during their Saviors Tour at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Green Day and Las Vegas are beefing

Nardos Haile
Tre Cool, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Mike Dirnt of the Californian band Green Day perform at the Carling Academy Brixton on January 25, 2005 in London. (Jo Hale/Getty Images)

How "American Idiot" speaks to Gen Z

Megan Volpert
Billie Joe Armstrong and Tré Cool of Green Day perform during Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Gilbert Flores/Penske Media via Getty Images)

Green Day bashes Trump during NYE show

Kelly McClure
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Tré Cool, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Mike Dirnt of Green Day perform onstage during the Harley-Davidson's Homecoming Festival - Day 1 at Veterans Park on July 14, 2023 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images for Harley-Davidson)

Green Day sells Trump mugshot T-shirts

Joy Saha
(AP/Nick Ut/Getty/Frederick M. Brown)

Pop punk and Pollock

Noah Charney
Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" (1927) (Kino International)

Do bad times make great art?

John Semley
Billie Joe Armstrong, of Green Day, performs "Bang Bang" at the American Music Awards at the Microsoft Theater on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP) (Matt Sayles/invision/ap)

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Drive-By Truckers; Green Day (Big Hassle/Danny Clinch/AP/Jeff Christensen)

The record America needs now

Nico Lang
Green Day (BB Gun Press)

Heart like a Hand Grenade clip

Erin Keane
Green Day (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

Rock Hall of Fame Is a Mess

Erin Keane
Ian McLagan (T. DiMenno)

Secrets of a rock legend

Rick Moody
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Green Day (Warner Bros./Reprise)

Green Day: Rock's saddest joke

Stephen Deusner
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