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Heather Digby Parton

Heather Digby Parton, also known as "Digby," is a contributing writer to Salon.

President Donald Trump attends the men's singles final during the U.S. Open on Sept. 7, 2025. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump gets hit with Epstein birthday card boomerang

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President Donald Trump, flanked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, holds a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Aug. 26, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump’s deadly Venezuela boat attack takes us into dangerous waters

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President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Will Democrats blink once again in a shutdown standoff?

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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shakes hands with President Donald Trump at the White House on Feb. 13, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images))

RFK Jr. tightens his chokehold on the nation’s public health

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President Donald Trump attends a Cabinet Meeting at the White. House on Aug. 26, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Don’t be fooled by Trump’s dictatorship jokes

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President Donald Trump talks to journalists after signing executive orders in the Oval Office on Aug. 25, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Fed governor’s firing shows that Trump is beyond all restraint

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Dr. James Dobson (R), founder of the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family, participates in the National Day of Prayer ceremony at the White House on May 3, 2007. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

James Dobson ignited the culture wars — and changed US politics

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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Paging FDR: Democrats need to embrace New Deal-style politics

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People gather in Miami to protest social safety net cuts by the Trump administration. (Jesus Olarte/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Guess what’s back? Privatizing Social Security

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Elected officials gather on stage in Houston, Texas, for a rally against a GOP gerrymandering plan. (Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

Desperate Democrats consider using a new — and old — weapon

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ICE continue to arrest those they suspect of being "illegal aliens." Now, online, its supporters call for action, even against U.S. citizens. (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Handout / Getty Images)

Trump’s mass deportations are hurting local economies

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From left, American real estate developer Donald Trump and his girlfriend (and future wife), former model Melania Knauss, financier (and future convicted sex offender) Jeffrey Epstein, and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell pose together at the Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida, February 12, 2000. (Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)

Will Ghislaine Maxwell come through for Trump in the Epstein scandal?

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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS)

Stephen Colbert’s firing is a test of free expression

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) speaks at a press conference on July 15, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

GOP’s foreign aid vote will cost lives — and they don’t care

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Meera G. Nair, Ph.D., and Declan F. McCole, Ph.D., AGAF, professors of biomedical sciences at the University of California, Riverside, observe intestinal epithelial cells on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (Anjali Sharif-Paul/MediaNewsGroup/The Press-Enterprise via Getty Images)

Donald Trump goes nuclear in the GOP’s war on science

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Portrait of American financier Jeffrey Epstein (left) and real estate developer Donald Trump as they pose together at the Mar-a-Lago estate, Palm Beach, Florida, 1997. (Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)

MAGA continues to reel from Trump’s Epstein betrayal

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

Don and Vlad’s love story could be on the rocks

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Federal immigration agents near MacArthur Park in Los Angeles on July 7, 2025. (Carlin Steihl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

How $178 billion is creating a police state

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President Trump has signed many executive orders in four months. One instituted merit-based hiring, which MAGA turned into a loyalty test. (MANDEL NGAN / Getty Images)

Trump has the midterms in his sights. We must be vigilant

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President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

As the One Big Boondoggle passes the Senate, Trump and Musk square off again

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Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist attends a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol April 18, 2023. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Not Trump’s baby: The “big, beautiful” bill’s father is really Grover Norquist

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US President Donald Trump during a a press conference in the East Room to the White House in Washington, DC, on February 24, 2025. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” runs into a Senate sausage grinder — and it’s messy

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Donald Trump | US Supreme Court building (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Supreme Court bends again to Trump’s will

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Woman holds an upside down US flag to protest against President Donald Trump outside the US Capitol ahead of his joint address to Congress in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. (ALLISON ROBBERT/AFP via Getty Images)

War with Iran could activate Trump’s darkest impulses

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