2022: SALON (307)

JANUARY

Why omicron has a lower mortality rate

The truth behind GOP lies about Jan. 6

After insurrection: A second civil war?

January 6 was a success

Is Biden ready to pounce?

Gun Girl goes Catholic: Right-wing trend

A worthy return for PBS’ “All Creatures”

Is BBB a “secret” Green New Deal?

Bob Saget, a dirty daddy

Superspreaders: Cruz’s conspiracy crew

Trump doesn’t love you back, Republicans

Supreme Court’s golden rule: GOP only

How the states are killing democracy

A “self-love potion” to fall for

The right’s fake MLK: Hollower than ever

On Jan. 6, media still can’t see race

Republican’s red flag: GOP should worry

Signs of life in Bidenland, at last

Nothing “pro-life” about anti-vaxxers

GOP’s new/old tactic: Election police

We are all the Fraggles’ Trash Heap now

The GOP’s anti-vaxx path to fascism

Do face shields do anything?

Crypto, Trump and toxic male entitlement

SCOTUS fight: Moment of reckoning

GOP’s critical race theory lie revealed

One NFL player’s saga of survival

“Somebody Somewhere” echoes “Ted Lasso”

Trump is winning the battle over Jan. 6

FEBRUARY

Carl Bernstein: “Truth is not neutral”

Trump digs his own grave – GOP scrambles

Trump is now openly celebrating Jan. 6

Inside the Cult of Crypto’s latest scam

Birds falling from the sky in Mexico

APRIL

The red state-blue state COVID rift

Do animals have social lives?

How “don’t say gay” harms LGBTQ youth

Why MAGA lies work: Too big to believe

Putin sets his apologists up for failure

Kids used for covert ban on gay marriage

#BoycottDisney is proof MAGA is a cult

Scientists arrested at climate protests

Why are teens self-diagnosing on TikTok?

To save democracy, do we need utopia?

GOP goes full “groomer” to stir violence

Republicans follow Putin’s playbook

Media blows New York subway shooting

Elon Musk’s Twitter play to own the libs

Maybe you don’t need more sleep

Why I started watching porn at 50

Was Jesus resurrected from the dead?

Does Trump still have the juice?

GOP blunts loss by bullying Mickey Mouse

The Twitter troll who took Trump’s place

New York Times shirks away from Big Lie

Traveling while fat: A guide

Historians to Trump: You’re fired!

Putin, Le Pen and the French right

In Trump’s image: GOP wants school bully

Will Elon Musk free us from Twitter?

Keep the GOP leaks coming – Trump’s hurt

Sorry Kevin, it’s MTG’s party now

Trump’s puppet government

Elon Musk sees our future in the stars

MAY

Who gained most from the boom of 2021?

The church of Trump’s Big Lie

The photo that changed abortion rights

No winner: Trump downplays SCOTUS leak

Behind the mask: Racism and the pandemic

Will Democrats waste this moment?

Amazon union takes fight to the C-suite

What, me worry about climate?

The GOP is gaslighting the media on Roe

Post-Roe, IVF treatment may be impeded

Samuel Alito’s black-robed dominion

Susan Collins goes full MAGA on abortion

MAGA candidates are outgrowing Trump

Superhero labor laws are propaganda

Divorce HBO’s messy Time Traveler’s Wife

Buffalo: It’s exactly what he wants

Buffalo: This wasn’t a “lone wolf” crime

MAGA is now bigger than Donald Trump

New GOP lie: Fetus-powered street lamps

Abortion bans “solution” to replacement

When “Atlanta” met the Northman

The right’s war on young people

Trump may lose in Georgia: So what?

Perdue: Abrams “demeaning her own race”

The GOP only cares about imaginary kids

America’s gun madness: Don’t be numbed

NRA goes to Texas to celebrate gun power

Franz Kafka warned us about Fox News

The truth about guns and capitalism

Is Merrick Garland coming for Trump?

Now the far right is coming for college

JUNE

Why women are Ulvade’s new scapegoat

Biden faces a worse foe than Trump

Same motive: Mass shooters and the GOP

How evangelicals became such hypocrites

Making the bodies of “The Staircase”

Ghost of Watergate: Jan. 6 different?

Why American can’t have gun control

Media falls for GOP copaganda on crime

GOP “Tough on crime? Give me a break

Cheney to GOP: We’re coming for Trump

Jan. 6 hearings: Elegy for a lost America

“The Boys” and TV’s full frontal assault

GOP v. Trump: Republican expose Big Lie

Don the con: Trump voters are victims

GOP misogyny already sabotages gun deal

Jan. 6 probe zeroes in on Ginni Thomas

Trump wanted a different insurrection

No, Elon, America isn’t a “gerontocracy”

White supremacy, COVID and free speech

“Peaky Blinders” & the crime of sobriety

Eyewitness to Jan. 6: America is gone

The Big Lie was always about racism

SCOTUS strikes down gun restrictions

Roe is dead: Democracy is collapsing

For anti-abortion movement, what’s next?

Why we need to talk about whiteness

Thomas ensures the next Jan. 6 has guns

Many Roe protests met with violence

Can her testimony take Trump down?

Parents react to new feeding guidelines

JULY

SCOTUS sets up election theft for GOP

Eating outside is no picnic

Doug Mastriano: On a mission from God

Indictments for Trump: Coming at last

Trump’s “get out of jail free” card

What’s behind Joe Biden’s reality show?

Ingraham ups call to “defund” education

Microplastic pollution knows no bounds

What the heck is a “napron”?

DOJ drops a bomb on Bannon’s plot

Arizona: Teachers don’t need degrees

MAGA cultists aren’t innocent dupes

Post-Roe gaslighting: GOP’s rape denials

Misogyny holds the Trump base together

Screaming goats of “Thor” not fiction

What is NYC hiding about 9/11 toxins?

A Uvalde wakeup call: Police don’t help

The GOP plays word games with “abortion”

The press grades Republicans on a curve

Can Democrats seize the momentum?

Fox News throws a distraction circus

How the states went nuts – what’s next?

Boris Johnson only wishes he were Trump

Bannon’s bluster falls flat

Summer 2022: Dawn of the apocalypse

Trump’s last-ditch option: run again

Manchin is finally game. Take the deal

How to rescue a cult victim

Decoding America’s heart of darkness

AUGUST

Don trumps Ron: DeSantis is no dirtbag

GOP will never be the “Parents Party”

Kansas prove it: People want abortion

After Kansas, right’s in deep denial

Why Hungary’s Orban is a CPAC rockstar

Will a super AI kill us all? Maybe

Theme parks as queer getaways

Climate bill exposes GOP nihilism

Trump and GOP fundraise off FBI raid

GOP’s victim complex in full effect

GOP’s war on books: Only the beginning

What Trump and Orban want: Fascism, duh

Real critical race theory: It matters

When they came for the librarians

“87,000 IRS agents,” guns and the GOP

Trump gives the FBI the Jan. 6 treatment

Trump’s law: End presidential privilege

Trump gets revenge on Liz: Will it last?

Do it! Vote for Cheney in a GOP primary

“Virgin River” must protect its Preacher

How the right is winning the hashtag war

Trump’s crimes pay off — for Democrats

“Lawyers giggling” at Trump’s DOJ suit

Trump reaps the mistrust he sowed

Will America back away from madness?

GOP, gobsmacked by abortion, backpedals

Seven children dead: Who’s to blame?

Can Western “culture” survive its myths?

Trump ups threats as legal case crumbles

Prosecuting Trump will lower the heat

Fauci quits: Right wins war on science

SEPTEMBER

GOP learns hard way sex is still popular

Biden’s MAGA message missed by the media

Jim Crow revived in new voting laws

Lies, falsehoods and “vacuous truths”

The Lannisters long before they had game

America is waking up: Is it too late?

Teflon Don: How Trump keeps getting away

After Roe, GOP runs to same-sex marriage

Trump’s MAGA judge can’t save him

“Longtermism”: The marketing campaign

How Justice Scalia created this chaos

Donald Trump: Queen’s Yank stepson?

DeSantis tries out his 2024 pitch

How bad was DOJ under Trump and Barr?

Biden’s swagger: He thinks they’ll win

DeSantis tries to out-Trump Trump

Right-wing fake history is nothing new

Rhaenyra’s character assassination

Trump taught Ron DeSantis well

Trump and Tucker go full QAnon

MAGA grift: Trump donors pay his lawyers

It’s a scary time – but Trump is cooked

Ron DeSantis’ genius plan goes sideways

“Hocus Pocus” and scary parents

How to read the midterm campaign ads

So why did he steal those documents?

How to prosecute Boss Trump: RICO case

Oath Keepers Jan 6 trial threatens Trump

Biden, Putin, Trump and the hurricane

Hurricane Ian: Test for Biden, DeSantis

OCTOBER

How “religious freedom” became a weapon

Who’s a “conservative”? Not these folks

January 6 excuses get more dangerous

“Executive privilege” and other lies

Democrats scored a huge win: Now what?

Uncle Joe has questions: Who are we?

Herschel, Trump and the Christian right

Michael Cohen: Trump’s downfall coming

The scientific case against dinner

“Spirit Rangers,” stewards of the land

Trump challenges feds: Indict me!

GOP heading toward another shutdown

Trump, Biden and consequences

Trump planned the whole damn thing

From Harvard coach to most-wanted list

Taiwan: World’s other nuclear crisis

This year’s election: Only one issue

When do movements become cults?

What will a GOP majority actually do?

Why Gen X grew up to skew Republican

Mike Pence persists in his delusion

Soup on the van Gogh: Kids are alright

Why women’s freedom threatens many men

“Variant soup” could drive COVID surge

On Barilla and America’s food illiteracy

Synagogue shooting doc: Unity vs bigotry

Critical moment: Why is Biden silent?

Where did Alaska’s crabs go?

COVID comes home: A tribute to my sister

How Democrats can start winning

Fighting corruption is fighting fascism

NOVEMBER

Ableism abounds in Fetterman discourse

“LaRusso felt like someone I knew”

Is this dystopia? Not quite yet

An epidemic of fentanyl misinformation

Why I write about war

Benghazi! The wound that never healed

The fall of a virtual cereal-themed town

Michael Steele: Midterm surprises ahead

Dobbs effect: Abortion rights win big

Did Christian nationalism lose midterms?

Kroger employees report late paychecks

What’s behind Elon’s Twitter disaster?

Democracy won? It’s not that easy, folks

GOP in turmoil — and it’s delicious

Experts on the “Black antisemitism” loop

Trump revenge tour launches: Who cares?

How NASA is going back to the Moon

Meet Kevin McCArthy’s puppetmaster

Harvard, Asian Americans and Jews

Qatar 2022 WTF: How did we get here?

Thanksgiving, but make it camp

Donald Trump’s comeback is not funny

Judith Light embraces her “crone years’

Mrs. Maisel and the kids’ table lessons

Is America finally sick of billionaires?

The essential “John Hughes Mixtapes”

Income inequality comes for your health

Why coffee could go extinct

Hakeem Jeffries: No upgrade on Pelosi

Is consciousness a quantum phenomenon?

DECEMBER

Chalamet talks “Sex Lives” and democracy

No, COVID is not “airborne AIDS”

Tuvalu prepares to recede into the sea

Stars, yield to Ziwe’s playful hostility

Of course Trump hates the Constitution

Will Smith’s outlook, slap or no slap

How cooking helps your mental health

Race riot: Jan. 6 as white supremacy

Trevor Noah has thoughts on a successor

How N.Y. Times helped GOP win the House

A prayer before dying: GOP faces the end

The worst film performances of 2022

Bored of Trump? OK, but don’t look away

Will Smith’s bizarre PR trauma platform

McIver on poking fun at Christmas movies

The year in climate change

Israel veers into far-right extremism

Ye, DeSantis and resurgent antisemitism

Is this Trump’s collapse – or comeback?

The salty secrets to the best appetizers

“Emily in Paris” star on playing villain

2022: The year the pandemic dragged on

The true legacy of Seinfeld’s Festivus

There really is a “great replacement”

13 most buzzworthy fashion statements

Best breakout TV performances of 2022

Trump’s “trading cards”: The last straw!

Our 10 most popular recipes of 2022

Salon staffers’ favorite meals of 2022

The year’s most powerful nudity in film

Newly-discovered organisms eat viruses

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