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Dean Obeidallah is the host of the daily national SiriusXM radio program, “The Dean Obeidallah Show” on the network’s progressive political channel. Dean is also a columnist for The Daily Beast and contributor to CNN.com Opinion. He co-directed the comedy documentary “The Muslims Are Coming!” that uses humor to counter anti-Muslim bigotry and is the co-creator of the annual New York Arab American Comedy Festival.  Follow him on Twitter @DeanObeidallah and Facebook @DeanofRadio

Ramy Youssef (Photo illustration by Salon/Marcus Price/Hulu/Getty Images)

“Doubt is healthy”: “Ramy” will make you question everything about monogamy and spirituality

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Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Michael Cohen: N.Y. fraud case will “financially destroy” Trump — and may put him in prison

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Donald Trump throws hats to supporters during a Make America Great Again rally on November 2, 2020, in Avoca, Pennsylvania. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

How the GOP weaponized ignorance — and how “smart people acting like dopes” stay in power

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Mo Amer in "Mo" (Courtesy of Netflix)

“You have to outwork everybody”: Mo Amer on his Netflix immigrant comedy about hustling in Houston

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Joe Biden | A monitor displays stock market information on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange NYSE in New York, the United States, June 16, 2022 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Drew Angerer/Michael Nagle/Xinhua)

Ali Velshi on the coming recession — and why Joe Biden can’t stop it

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MSNBC Anchor and NBC News Correspondent Katy Tur speaks onstage at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit - Day 3 on October 11, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune)

MSNBC’s Katy Tur on covering Trump and relentless tragedy on TV: “It drags me down”

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George Carlin (Courtesy of George Carlin's Estate/HBO)

Did George Carlin have the best comedy routine on every political subject? Judd Apatow thinks so

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Jordan Klepper in Hungary (Joel Sadler/Comedy Central)

Jordan Klepper sees the future of GOP: “Conservatives look to Hungary as a conservative wonderland”

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Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, photographed during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on Monday, Mar. 21, 2022 in Washington, DC. Judge Jackson was picked by President Biden to be the first Black woman in United States history to serve on the nation's highest court to succeed Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer who is retiring. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Elie Mystal: Our Constitution is “actually trash” — but the Supreme Court can be fixed

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Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Former GOP strategist Rick Wilson on Putin’s deep appeal to “dictator-friendly” Republicans

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Laura Coates (Larry French/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

CNN’s Laura Coates dares the right to come after Joe Biden’s Supreme Court pick

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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) listens during the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol on July 27, 2021 at the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images)

“Trump will get his comeuppance”: Rep. Jamie Raskin promises consequences for Jan. 6

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Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., right, and Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., speaking after a meeting of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Jan. 6 committee says Mark Meadows’ “hokey pokey” has slowed down plan for primetime hearings

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Donald Trump (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Donald Trump and his family fleeced America: Why aren’t they being held accountable?

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Thousands of Donald Trump supporters gather outside the U.S. Capitol building following a "Stop the Steal" rally on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Former federal prosecutor: We’ll see “a tidal wave of criminal charges against Donald Trump”

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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) holds a news conference shortly after the release of the committee's Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report at the U.S. Capitol December 03, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Adam Schiff on Jan. 6, Republican lies big and small — and prosecuting Donald Trump

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Andrew Yang delivers a 20-minute campaign speech at the Des Moines Register Political Soapbox at the Iowa State Fair August 09, 2019 in Des Moines, Iowa. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Andrew Yang on America’s “very bizarre direction” — and why the two-party system needs to go

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Donald Trump | The US Capitol Riot on January 6, 2021 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Republicans would “rather end democracy” than turn away from Trump, says Harvard professor

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Comedian Maz Jobrani performs at "Loose Change" on October 29, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. | Writer/director Negin Farsad speaks onstage at the "3rd Street Blackout" screening during the 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival on June 13, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. | Comedian Dean Obeidallah is seen performing in the liberal comedy show on Broadway called "Laughing Liberally: This Ain't No Tea Party," on April 11, 2011 in Manhattan, NY. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Alberto E. Rodriguez/Jennifer S. Altman)

Muslim-American comics after 9/11: “I thought comedy was over, but it was more important than ever”

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Aasif Mandvi as Ben Shakir in "Evil" (Elizabeth Fisher/CBS/Paramount+)

Aasif Mandvi talks “Evil,” djinns and “the appeal of Trump” despite being hated by GOP leaders

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"The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma And Finding A Way To Heal" by Mary Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Avary L. Trump/St. Martin's Press)

Mary Trump wants to heal the trauma caused by her uncle — problem is, it’s still happening

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"The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America" by Caro Anderson (Photo illustration by Salon/Stephen Nowland/Emory University/Bloomsbury Publishing)

Scholar Carol Anderson on the “anti-Blackness” coded into the Second Amendment

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After The Fall by Ben Rhodes (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/SAUL LOEB/Random House)

Obama aide Ben Rhodes on the global crisis of democracy: It’s real, and we have to fight back

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This Country by Chris Matthews (Photo illustration by Salon/Simon & Schuster/Brian Sager)

Chris Matthews on Jan. 6, the danger to democracy and what he learned from #MeToo

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