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Kirk Swearingen is a poet and independent journalist. He is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism, and his work has appeared in Delmar, MARGIE, Bloom, the American Journal of Poetry, Riverfront Times, Medium and Salon.

Vladimir Putin | South Carolina, Myrtle Beach RV Travel Park (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

NATO-shmato! Here’s the diplomatic solution: Red-state America can join Putin’s CSTO

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"Love Heals." Acrylic painting based on photograph of nurse couple at Tampa General Hospital, by Nicole Hubbard (Painting by Samantha Ramay)

My friend recently became a nurse — what timing, right?

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Attorney for the President, Rudy Giuliani speaks to the media at a press conference held in the back parking lot of Four Seasons Total Landscaping on November 7, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The press conference took place just minutes after news networks announced that Joe Biden had won the presidency over Donald Trump after it was projected that he had won the state of Pennsylvania. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Boy, do we need a “deep state” now — but not the way the Trumpers mean it

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Rush Limbaugh, Donald Trump and Newt Gingrich (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Are we normalizing the “death of democracy” by talking about it so much? Definitely not

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Firefighters survey tornado damages in downtown Mayfield on December 11, 2021 in Mayfield, Kentucky. Multiple tornadoes tore through parts of the lower Midwest late on Friday night leaving a large path of destruction and multiple fatalities. (Brett Carlsen/Getty Images)

Despite all the chaos and discord of 2021, Americans still need each other

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Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The Federalist Society built this Supreme Court — but how did it get its dishonest name?

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Johnny Van Zant of Lynyrd Skynyrd waves an American flag while the band performs onstage (Kevin Winter/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)

What exactly has gone wrong in America? Frat boys, light beer or Skynyrd? IDK

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View of the Confederate memorial, with an added Confederate flag made out of flowers, Jasper, Alabama, 2010. (Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge/Getty Images)

White America’s “hidden wound” threatens to destroy the country — and not for the first time

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South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster speaks to a crowd during an election night party on Nov. 3, 2020, in Columbia, South Carolina. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

Why has Republican rhetoric gotten so unhinged? It’s pure projection

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Josh Hawley and Mitt Romney (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Strangers on a train: The dark bargain that destroyed the Republican Party

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Ted Cruz, Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Formation of a black hole: On the spectacular implosion of the Republican Party

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U.S. President Donald Trump hugs the U.S. flag during CPAC 2019 on March 02, 2019 in National Harbor, Maryland. The American Conservative Union hosts the annual Conservative Political Action Conference to discuss conservative agenda. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

So fascism came to America — but what was it wearing?

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Donald Trump | Wisconsin (Photo illustration by Salon)

Dear Wisconsin: If Trump wants a recount, make him pay up front

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Amy Coney Barrett | Constitution of the United States of America (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Amy Coney Barrett and the Second Amendment: Why her “expansive view” is utter BS

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U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Vice President Mike Pence, Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, and the crown of Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Last call for the 25th Amendment? Trump’s Cabinet won’t depose him — but they should

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Protective mask hanging on a rearview mirror (Getty Images)

A road trip through the red states, while the pandemic spikes

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Donald Trump, Herbert Hoover and George W. Bush (Getty Images/Salon)

Do business leaders have any business being president? Available evidence says no

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Veterans of World War I gather outside the Congressional Library in Washington, to demand the immediate payment of a cash bonus promised to them eight years before, 15th July 1932. | Hundreds of demonstrators walk down 16th street to the White House, during a rally north of Lafayette Square near the White House to protest police brutality and racism, on June 7, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Getty Images/Salon)

Troops on the streets of Washington: Donald Trump, Herbert Hoover and the protesters

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Donald Trump, and portraits of Alexander Hamilton and James Madison (Photo illustration by Salon/Hulton Archive/Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Reading the Federalist Papers under lockdown: Is Donald Trump dissolving our union?

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