As chronicled in Noam Scheiber's cover story this week, Elizabeth Warren's unapologetic populism and intellectual credentials have endeared her to those on the left looking for a champion. But it is her aggressive hearing-room cross-examination style—captured in a slew of video clips that quickly went viral—that have bonded her to the Democratic left.

Here's an assortment of her greatest rhetorical flayings, barn-burning rants, and cable news cross-examinations:

Just after announcing her 2012 Senate candidacy, she talked rings around Joe Scarborough on his own show:

On the eve of October's government shutdown, she openly derided Republicans on the Senate floor:

Early in her tenure as the senior senator from Massachusetts, she doggedly questioned Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on "Too Big to Fail" banks: