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Andrew O'Hehir is executive editor of Salon, and has been a writer and editor at the pioneering online news site since 1997, including many years as a film and cultural critic. He was previously an editor at SPIN magazine and was editor of the award-winning SF Weekly in the mid-1990s. He has also written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Nautilus, Sight and Sound, Elle China, the Times (U.K.) and other publications.

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Deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller speaks to the media, Sept. 5, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

MAGA’s war on “woke” has a long history — like 400 years

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Donald Trump speaks as he receives the FIFA Peace Prize from FIFA president Gianni Infantino in Washington, Dec. 5, 2025. (Dan Mullan/Getty Images)

A World Cup boycott to stop Trump? Yeah, that’s not happening

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This photo illustration displays a post by Donald Trump on Truth Social, with a map of Greenland in the background. (Photo illustration by Cheng Xin/Getty Images)

“The memes will continue”: A fake presidency, but real tyranny

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Protesters rally on Jan. 8, 2026, in Tehran. (Anonymous/Getty Images)

Minneapolis and Tehran: Is this Donald Trump’s downfall?

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Armed supporters of Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro gather near the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Jan. 3, 2026. (Federico Parra / AFP via Getty Images)

Venezuela: Our criminal president’s latest crime scene

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Traditional Russian wooden nesting dolls depicting Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at a gift shop in Moscow. (Nikita Borissov/AFP via Getty Images)

How Putin won the war, with a little help from his friends

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Donald Trump, Viktor Orbán, JD Vance (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s foreign policy vision: Make Europe white again

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World Bank president David Malpass (left) interviews former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, Oct. 11, 2022. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The left was right about Larry Summers all along. Democrats didn’t listen

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Gen. Francisco Franco (right) with Prince Juan Carlos in 1975, shortly before Franco's death. (Keystone/Getty Images)

MAGA right’s new fascist man-crush: He’s been dead for 50 years

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New York Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani, center, celebrates with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), left, and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), right, during an election rally on October 26, 2025. (Andres Kudacki/Getty Images)

Zohran Mamdani took on the entire political establishment — and won

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Elon Musk and Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Patrick T. Fallon/Thomas Krych/Anadolu/Tuomas A. Lehtinen)

Elon’s dubious British romance: He’s getting fleeced by a racist hustler

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President-elect Catherine Connolly with her husband, Brian McEnery (left), and Taoiseach Micheál Martin after being declared the winner of Ireland's presidential election, Oct. 25, 2025. (Niall Carson/PA Images via Getty Images)

Why Ireland’s new leftist president matters — but maybe only a little

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(Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Angelina Katsani/Underwood Archives/Katsumi Murouchi)

That time a foreign-born socialist ran for mayor of New York

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Kash Patel hasn’t ruined the FBI — he’s only revealed its true nature

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A billboard in Caracas accusing Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado (center) and other opposition leaders of supporting U.S. sanctions against Venezuela. (Federico Parra/AFP via Getty Images)

At least Trump didn’t win the Nobel Prize. Or, wait — did he?

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Venezuelan fishermen take precautions in response to U.S. military deployment in the Caribbean, Sept. 24, 2025. (Federico Parra/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s phony war on Venezuela — and his larger war on reality

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Trump at the UN: Turning point in history, and not in a good way

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No Kings demonstration in Chicago, June 14, 2025. (Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)

America’s slow-motion coup speeds up: Tough lessons of the Kimmel affair

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Christopher Bradford (right) and his daughter pray at a memorial for Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University, Sept. 12, 2025. (Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

Death of a culture warrior: The right’s comeback win is Charlie Kirk’s legacy

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomes French President Emmanuel Macron to Downing Street, July 9, 2025. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

A specter is haunting Europe — and it’s Joe Biden. What a drag!

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Armed members of the National Guard patrol on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 26, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Troops in the streets: The police-state dark side of democracy

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President Donald Trump greets Russian President Vladimir Putin as he arrives at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, Aug. 15, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump baked in Alaska: He grovels — worse yet, it’s bad TV

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A poster depicting leaders of Saudi Arabia, Syria, Oman and Lebanon alongside President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 2025. (Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images)

There is no “two-state solution.” Can we stop pretending?

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U.S. President Donald Trump looks up at the new flag on the south lawn of the White House. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Trump’s biggest deal ever: Global chaos and disaster

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