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Billy Porter in "Pose" (Michael Parmelee/FX)

Billy Porter: White men want their power

Alli Joseph
"Squidbillies" (Adult Swim)

Actor fired over Dolly Parton posts

Joe Otterson - Variety
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jill Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

O beautiful, for a roll call road trip

Melanie McFarland
"Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj" (Netflix)

Patriot Act is a tough show to lose now

Steve Greene - Indiewire
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The Syndicate (Photos provided by publicist/Salon)

The fall of a flashy pot-smuggling ring

Ashlie D. Stevens
Matt Basile and Massimo Capra on Fridge Wars (CBS/CW)

Fridge Wars is how I aspire to cook now

Ashlie D. Stevens
Ellen DeGeneres during a taping of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" (Brooks Kraft/Getty Images)

Ellen's show ousts three top producers

Matt Donnelly, Cynthia Littleton - Variety
Kanye West at 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones (George Pimentel/Getty Images)

What to do about Kanye? It's complicated

D. Watkins
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Rose McGowan at the Q Awards; Alexander Payne at the 66th San Sebastian International Film Festival (Jo Hale/Redferns; Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images)

McGowan vs Payne on sexual misconduct

Kate Aurthur, Elizabeth Wagmeister - Variety
Ramy Youssef (Craig Blankenhorn/Hulu)

Ramy: This "is not a show about Muslims"

Dean Obeidallah
Courtney B. Vance, Jonathan Majors and Jurnee Smollett in "Lovecraft Country" (HBO)

Lovecraft Country is a map of Black fear

Melanie McFarland
Young amateur astronomer on a school yard in Lichtenberg watching the moon with a telescope (Rolf Schulten/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

The latest quarantine escape? Stargazing

Ashlie D. Stevens
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Maddie Phillips and Anjelica Bette Fellini in "Teenage Bounty Hunters" (Netflix)

Oh lord, it's good girls with guns

Melanie McFarland
"We Are Radical Monarchs" (Courtesy of Brooke Anderson/PBS)

Social justice troop for girls of color

Helene Alafriz
"Rick and Morty" (Adult Swim)

"Cancel ‘Rick and Morty’" gains steam

Chris Lindahl - Indiewire
Dolly Parton attends a press conference before a performance celebrating her 50-year anniversary with the Grand Ole Opry at The Grand Ole Opry on October 12, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Terry Wyatt/Getty Images)

Dolly: "Of course Black lives matter"

Claire Shaffer - Rolling Stone
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"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" (NBC)

Is late night showing how TV returns?

Melanie McFarland
Sasheer Zamata in "Spree" (Dreamcrew Entertainment)

A comedic influencer killing "Spree"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Lovecraft Country (Photograph by Elizabeth Morris/HBO)

Courtney B. Vance on "Lovecraft Country"

D. Watkins
"Ren & Stimpy" (Nickelodeon)

"Ren & Stimpy" doc buys into genius myth

Gary M. Kramer
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"Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn" Mural dedicated to Yusuf Hawkins in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn (Courtesy of Hawkins Family/HBO)

USA's racist denial runs deep in HBO doc

Melanie McFarland
"Luster," "All the Right Mistakes," "A House Is a Body," "True Story," "Disappear Doppelganger Disappear," "The Death of Vivek Oji" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux/She Writes Press/Algonquin/Viking/Little a/Riverhead Books)

Read "Luster" and more novels in August

Erin Keane, Ashlie D. Stevens, Hanh Nguyen
"Meet the Press with Chuck Todd" (William B. Plowman/NBC)

Chuck Todd haters, we take your point

Melanie McFarland
An exhibit on Zines at the Zine Scene at the Orange County Museum of Arts South Coast Plaza Gallery April 19, 2003 (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

How quarantine resurrected zine culture

Ashlie D. Stevens
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