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Presidents Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Richard Nixon, and Lyndon B. Johnson (Getty Images/Salon)

Trump lied to us: It's nothing new

Heather Digby Parton
(Getty/icholakov)

The Pentagon budget just keeps rising

William D. Hartung - TomDispatch.com
Democratic presidential candidate former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden participates in a Presidential Candidates Forum at the NAACP 110th National Convention on July 24, 2019 in Detroit, Michigan. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

President Joe Biden: Bad news for Dems?

Paul Rosenberg
Mj Rodriguez as Blanca in "Pose" (Michael Parmelee/FX)

"Pose" and the home of the brave

Mary Elizabeth Williams
FILE -- In this Feb. 12, 1991 file photo, U.S. Marines prepare to board Chinook CH-46 helicopters during a deployment exercise in the desert of Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf crisis. Twenty five years after the first U.S. Marines swept across the border into Kuwait in the 1991 Gulf War, American forces find themselves battling the extremist Islamic State group, born out of al-Qaida, in the splintered territories of Iraq and Syria. (AP Photo/Sadayuki Mikami, File) (AP)

Gearing up for the third Gulf War

Michael T. Klare - TomDispatch.com
A U.S. Army soldier stands by Iraqi's Oil Ministry after it was hit by missiles, November 21, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq. (Getty/Joe Raedle)

Iraq War: 15 years later

Rachel Leah
Donald Trump; Derek Harvey; Michael Flynn (Getty/Aude Guerrucci/Mark Wilson/Mandel Ngan)

Our man in the Middle East

Steven A. Cook
Rush Limbaugh; Donald Trump; Sean Hannity (AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Getty/Mandel Ngan/Saul Loeb)

Now all news is "fake news"

Heather Digby Parton
Sean Hannity, Donald Trump (Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com/Reuters/Brendan McDermid/Photo montage by Salon)

Brendan Gauthier
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=1226866'>Lya_Cattel</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

This toy could be a killer

Patrick Coffey

When Ed Koch backed Bush

David Sirota
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