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DeAnne and Mark Stidham in "LulaRich" (Amazon Studios)

The ultimate suburban "pyramid scheme"

Kylie Cheung
Comedian Maz Jobrani performs at "Loose Change" on October 29, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. | Writer/director Negin Farsad speaks onstage at the "3rd Street Blackout" screening during the 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival on June 13, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. | Comedian Dean Obeidallah is seen performing in the liberal comedy show on Broadway called "Laughing Liberally: This Ain't No Tea Party," on April 11, 2011 in Manhattan, NY. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Alberto E. Rodriguez/Jennifer S. Altman)

How 9/11 affected stand-up comedy

Dean Obeidallah
Lingui (MUBI)

"Injustice is against women, always"

Gary M. Kramer
Manny Jacinto in "Nine Perfect Strangers" (Vince Valitutti/Hulu)

Manny Jacinto on Nine Perfect Strangers

Kylie Cheung
Former US President Donald Trump (ANDY JACOBSOHN/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's 9/11 plans: Hosting boxing match

Kylie Cheung
"Just Get On the Pill" book and author Krystale E. Littlejohn (University of California Press/Marc Campos)

The gendered burden to get on the pill

Kylie Cheung
"Wildhood" (Riley Smith)

"Wildhood's" road to Two-Spirit identity

Gary M. Kramer
Bette Middler at the WSJ Magazine 2019 Innovator Awards in 2019, left. Alyssa Milano attends a "Bombshell" screening in 2019. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images; Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic)

Hey celebs, sex strikes don't work

Kylie Cheung
Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp and Beanie Feldstein as Monica Lewinsky in "American Crime Story: Impeachment" (Tina Thorpe/FX)

"Impeachment" doesn't acquit itself well

Melanie McFarland
Melissa McCarthy as Frances on "Nine Perfect Strangers" (Vince Valitutti/Hulu)

Pathetic plight of TV's catfished women

Kylie Cheung
Michael K. Williams attends the Los Angeles premiere of MGM's "Respect" on August 08, 2021 in Los Angeles (Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic)

The Wire's Michael K. Williams has died

Bob Brigham - Raw Story
Harry & Meghan: Escaping the Palace (Lifetime)

Surrender to this Harry & Meghan movie

Melanie McFarland
Weird Al Yankovic performing "Amish Paradise," a parody of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise," in Charlotte, North Carolina in 2019 (Jeff Hahne/Getty Images)

Musicians who refused a Weird Al parody

Rudie Obias - Mental Floss
Meng'er Zhang in "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" (Marvel Studios/Disney)

"Shang-Chi" focused on the wrong sibling

Kylie Cheung
Woman looks outside a train window while traveling (Getty Images/Mixmike)

Reframing female anger in thrillers

Liz Evans - The Conversation
Illustration of two Victorian gentlemen dancing a jig (Whitemay/Getty Stock Images)

30 jolly puns from the Victorian Era

Keith Johnston - Mental Floss
Southern belle (Getty Images/Tom Fullum)

#BamaRush & mocking Southern accents

Kathryn Cunningham - The Conversation
Billions (Jeff Neumann/SHOWTIME)

"Billions" shows the rich as they are

Melanie McFarland
Mark Bonnar and Jamie Sives in "Guilt" (Expectation/Happy Tramp North/PBS)

PBS' "Guilt" over brothers who hit & run

Hanh Nguyen
Michael Keaton as Kenneth Fienberg and Stanley Tucci as Charles Wolf in "Worth" (Monika Lek/Netflix)

9/11 viewer's guide: What to stream now

Kylie Cheung
Martin Short and Steve Martin "Only Murders in the Building" (Craig Blankenhorn/Hulu)

The ethically murky joy of true crime

Kylie Cheung
Matt Berry as Laszlo, Kayvan Novak as Nandor, Natasia Demetriou as Nadja in "What We Do In The Shadows" (Russ Martin/FX)

When vampires fail upward

Melanie McFarland
Cyndi Lauper, 1984 (Chris Walter/WireImage/Getty Images)

25 of the most covered songs in history

Stacy Conradt - Mental Floss
Lizzo attends the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, March 2021 ( Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

Lizzo & Cardi B's classical Greek twist

Grace B. McGowan - The Conversation
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