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Andrew O’Hehir is executive editor of Salon. He has been a writer and editor in various roles at the pioneering online news site since 1997, including many years as a film critic and arts reporter, and more recently a columnist on international relations. He was previously an editor at SPIN and was founding editor of the award-winning SF Weekly in the early 1990s. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Nautilus, Sight and Sound, the Hollywood Reporter and other publications, and is the author of three produced plays and a forthcoming family memoir. Follow him on Bluesky.

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Pope Leo XIV holds the Easter candle at St. Peter's basilica in the Vatican, April 4, 2026. (Andreas Solaro/AFP via Getty Images)

Why does the right hate the pope so much?

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Demonstration in support of the Iranian government on March 22, 2026, in central Tehran. (Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)

Iran is right: Trump has already lost this war

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President Donald Trump receives the traditional bowl of shamrock from Taoiseach of Ireland Micheál Martin in the East Room of the White House, March 17, 2026. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Ireland’s leader survives visit with cranky old guy in White House

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President Donald Trump and Kaiser Wilhelm II (Illustration by Getty Images/Salon)

When a narcissist autocrat led the world into war

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President Donald Trump speaks at “The Shield of the Americas Summit“ as Secretary of State Marco Rubio (left) and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth look on, Trump National Doral Golf Club, March 7, 2026. (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)

Behind Trump’s war fever lies profound weakness

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Donald Trump at Palm Beach International Airport, Feb. 27, 2026. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s war on Iran: America’s shame, and the world’s failure

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., at the Munich Security Conference, Feb. 13, 2026. (Marijan Murat/picture alliance via Getty Images)

AOC vs. Marco Rubio: First throwdown of 2028?

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Embattled British Prime Minister Keir Starmer outside 10 Downing Street, Feb. 11, 2026. (Carl Court/Getty Images)

Epstein files rock UK — but the real rot runs much deeper

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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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(Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Bettmann / Andrew Harnik / Neal McNeil / Library of Congress)

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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