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A search and rescue volunteer holds a T-shirt and backpack with the words Camp Mystic on them in Comfort, Texas. (Photo by Danielle Villasana/Getty Images)

Camp Mystic becomes center of tragedy

Colleen DeGuzman - The Texas Tribune
Donald Trump; Thomas Jefferson; Woodrow Wilson; Ronald Reagan (AP/Getty)

Trump's SOTU fiasco is unprecedented

Matthew Rozsa
Hunter S. Thompson (AP Photo)

Hunter S. Thompson's anti-fascist quest

Erin Keane
Lyndon B. Johnson (AP/Charles Tasnadi)

Dems still struggle over masculinity

Aram Goudsouzian - The Conversation
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George Washington; Thomas Paine; Donald Trump (Getty/Shutterstock/Photo Montage by Salon)

Trump's insult to the Founding Fathers

Jeff Biggers
(Shutterstock)

Why background checks aren't enough

Ladd Everitt
President Lyndon B Johnson discusses the Voting Rights Act with civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King Jr. (Getty/Hulton Archive)

The truth about LBJ and MLK

Phillip F. Nelson
(Getty/AP/Salon)

How important is political experience?

Matthew Rozsa
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John F. Kennedy rides in the motorcade in Dallas, Texas., Nov. 22, 1963. (AP)

JFK's death and the birth of Camelot

Bob Hennelly
Richard Nixon (AP)

"This is treason"

Ken Hughes
Lyndon B. Johnson; Barack Obama; Franklin Delano Roosevelt (AP/Bill Allen/Robert Clover/Getty/Scott Olson)

On the greatness of Obamacare

Matthew Rozsa
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/portfolio/CSA-Plastock'>CSA-Plastock</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>/Salon)

The peasants are revolting

Neal Pollack
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Donald Trump (AP/Chris Carlson/Shutterstock/Photo montage by Salon)

An epic abuse of power

Bob Cesca
Bryan Cranston as Lyndon B. Johnson in "All the Way" (HBO)

Lessons from "All the Way"

Matthew Rozsa
Lyndon B. Johnson (AP/Charles Tasnadi)

LBJ's "addiction" to Vietnam

George C. Herring
Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy (AP/Henry Burroughs)

Would JFK have escalated?

Godfrey Hodgson
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Tom Wilkinson as Lyndon B. Johnson, and David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr., in "Selma" (Paramount Pictures)

The Twisted Truth of "Selma"

Andrew O'Hehir
Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon (AP/Charles Tasnadi)

"You could blackmail LBJ"

Ken Hughes
Rand Paul, Glenn Beck (AP/Reed Saxon/Reuters/Chris Keane)

The right's new Jim Crow

Elias Isquith
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