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That time a socialist ran for mayor

Andrew O'Hehir
Trump supporters gather outside the U.S. Capitol building following a "Stop the Steal" rally on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Jan. 6 and the question of democracy

Gregg Barak
Neil Gorsuch, Jesus and Thomas Jefferson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Separation of church and state? Get real

Jacques Berlinerblau
A woman casts her ballot inside the Basset Place Mall in El Paso, Texas on November 3, 2020. (Justin HAMEL / AFP)

Could Congress' unused power save us?

Thom Hartmann - Independent Media Institute
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U.S. President Donald Trump, beneath a portrait of populist President Andrew Jackson, speaks before the swearing-in of Rex Tillerson as 69th secretary of state in the Oval Office of the White House on February 1, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump and Andrew Jackson: A love story

Matthew Rozsa
Near the site of the proposed Donald J. Trump Highway in Boise City, Oklahoma (Russell Cobb)

Oklahoma's Trump highway: Going nowhere

Russell Cobb
Thomas Jefferson (Photo illustration by Salon/VCG Wilson/Corbis/Getty Images/HappyFoto)

America's myths are destroying us

Donald Earl Collins
A protestor holds a placard during the demonstration. Protesters gathered at the state's legislative building to protest various causes such as the Biden inauguration, Covid-19 restriction, vaccine, religious ideas, Qanon, common core education, without a cohesive message, during the first day of the 81st (2021) Session of the Nevada Legislature. (Ty O'Neil/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Right-wing cults: Nothing new in America

Thom Hartmann - Independent Media Institute
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (Lynda M. Gonzalez-Pool/Getty Images)

Texas GOP cancels Alamo history event

Jon Skolnik
Witch trial in Salem, Massachusetts. Undated. (Getty Images/Lithograph by George H. Walker)

My witch-hunt history, and America's

Andrew O'Hehir
Capitol Hill police hold back protesters as crowds gather outside the U.S. Capitol for the "Stop the Steal" rally on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Trump supporters gathered in the nation's capital today to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over President Trump in the 2020 election. (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

Our first Memorial Day since the coup

Chauncey DeVega
Millard Fillmore, Ulysses S. Grant, Teddy Roosevelt and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Ex-president comeback? It's nothing new

Matthew Rozsa
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Joe Manchin, Joe Biden and John F. Kennedy (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

West Virginia, JFK and Joe Biden

Matthew Rozsa
QAnon Shaman | William F Buckley (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The myth of Buckley and the Birchers

Cormac Kelly
Gerald R. Ford, Jr. with his mother Dorothy Gardner Ford and half-brother Jim Ford. 1928 (Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum)

Gerald Ford's mom: Women's history hero

Matthew Rozsa
Martin Luther King Jr. | Capitol Riot on January 6th, 2021 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

For MLK, no healing without justice

Chauncey DeVega
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Laura Ingalls Wilder signing books ( Courtesy of LIW Memorial Society, De Smet, S)

Fact, fiction and "Little House"

Ashlie D. Stevens
A woman places her ballot paper in the box during early voting (Getty Images/Mark Ralston)

John A. Tures
Kayleigh McEnany, Donald Trump and Abe Lincoln (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The United States of Paranoia

Steve Fraser - TomDispatch.com
Kayleigh McEnany, Donald Trump and Abe Lincoln (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How Lincoln, GOP remade the Court

Calvin Schermerhorn - The Conversation
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Over 800 corten-steel monuments, one for each county in the United States where a racial terror lynching took place with the names of the lynching victims engraved on the columns are on display at The National Memorial For Peace And Justice, the nations first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people and people terrorized by lynching in Montgomery, Alabama on July 6, 2018. (Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)

Building new monuments for a new America

Elizabeth Alexander
Thomas Jefferson and Sen. Tom Cotton (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

When democracy beat theocracy — in 1810

Paul Rosenberg
Donald Trump gestures during the State of the Union address in the chamber of the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC, on January 30, 2018. (Getty/Win McNamee)

US's long history of contested elections

Alexander Cohen - The Conversation
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Vice President Mike Pence, Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, and the crown of Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Last call for the 25th Amendment

Kirk Swearingen
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