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Jack Mirkinson is a writer living in New York. Follow him on Twitter at @jackmirkinson.

Barack Obama (Reuters/Carlos Barria)

A tale of two Obamas: The unapolegetic defender of trans Americans & the man who scolds Black Lives Matter

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Woody Allen (Evan Agostini/invision/ap)

Hollywood’s unforgivable Woody Allen cowardice: What the controversy at Cannes really proves

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Barack Obama (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

America’s enduring Hiroshima shame: Why Barack Obama should apologize for the atomic bomb — but won’t

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Donald Trump (AP/Michael Conroy)

No, Donald Trump won’t kill the Republican Party

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Sadiq Khan (Reuters/Hannah McKay)

Naked Islamophobia in the U.K.: Inside London’s disgusting mayoral smear campaign

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Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump (AP/Patrick Semansky/John Locher/Photo montage by Salon)

This election is going to suck: Why Hillary vs. Trump will be vicious, infuriating & bad for America

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(Reuters/Gary Hershorn)

Google’s new media apocalypse: How the search giant wants to accelerate the end of the age of websites

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(Reuters/ Joshua Roberts/Carlos Barria/Photo montage by Salon)

John Boehner’s hilarious “Lucifer” burn reveals a bigger problem for Ted Cruz

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(Salon/AP/Benjamin Wheelock)

The irrelevant face of CNN: What’s behind the empty gravitas of Wolf Blitzer?

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Ann Curry, Matt Lauer, Kelly Ripa, Michael Strahan (Reuters/Brendan McDermid/Lucas Jackson/Mario Anzuoni/Lucy Nicholson)

The never-ending bloodsport of morning TV: Kelly Ripa’s bitter ABC feud & the grand tradition of talk-show disasters

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Prince (AP Photo/Liu Heung Shing, File)

“All of us, of course, remember ‘Purple Haze'”: Wolf Blitzer’s excruciating Prince screwup is a valuable lesson for pundits & politicians

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Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump (Reuters/Stephen Lam/Jonathan Drake/Photo montage by Salon)

Hillary and Trump’s crushing New York victories proved one thing: The system is in shreds

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Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., right, and Hillary Clinton speak during the CNN Democratic Presidential Primary Debate at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Thursday, April 14, 2016 in New York. (AP Photo/) (AP/Seth Wenig)

That was the most vicious debate yet: Inside Hillary & Bernie’s knock-down, drag-out battle for the New York primary

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In this March 30, 2016, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign stop in Appleton, Wis. A new Associated Press-GfK poll finds that Americans trust Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton more than Republican leader Trump to handle a wide range of issues, from immigration to health care to nominating Supreme Court justices. (AP Photo/) (AP/Nam Y. Huh, File)

The Donald Trump of newspapers just endorsed Donald Trump for president: Behold the most embarrassing editorial of 2016

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Paul Ryan (Reuters/Gary Cameron)

Go ahead Republicans, nominate Paul Ryan: Why this brokered-convention scheme is doomed to fail spectacularly

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Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton (Reuters/Mary Schwalm/Mark Kauzlarich/Photo montage by Salon)

Stop freaking out, Democrats!: Why Bernie & Hillary’s war of words isn’t the outrage we’re making it out to be

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Donald Trump (AP/Nam Y. Huh)

This is even more dangerous than Trump: Why the Islamophobia driving his campaign is only going to get worse

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Hillary Clinton confronts a Greenpeace activist, Mar 31, 2016.

The media’s biggest 2016 failure isn’t Donald Trump — it’s ignoring the “profound crisis” of climate change

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Wendi Deng, Vladimir Putin (Reuters/Fred Prouser/Alexei Druzhinin)

Vladimir Putin might be dating Rupert Murdoch’s ex-wife and we have lots of questions

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New York is about to become a madhouse: Why this unexpectedly fierce primary is going to get very interesting

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North Carolina State Legislative Office Building (Wikipedia/W Edward Callis III)

North Carolina’s repugnant new anti-LGBT law is only the tip of the iceberg

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(NBC)

NBC’s coverage of the Brussels attack was stunningly irresponsible

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The media’s indefensible Trump cowardice: How CNN & NPR shirked their obligation to the truth

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Merrick Garland (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

Merrick Garland, the “holy sh*t” nominee: Why Obama’s Supreme Court nomination is so surprising — and frustrating

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