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Nicholas Pinnock and Indira Varma in "For Life" (ABC/Giovanni Rufino)

50 Cent brings wrongful conviction to TV

Melanie McFarland
The Outsider (HBO)

Why the boogeyman is all over our TVs

Ashlie D. Stevens
Lizz Winstead (Mindy Tucker)

Can comedy save abortion?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
D. Watkins and Gabriel Bump on "Salon Talks" ("Salon Talks")

"Worse racial issues" could be coming

D. Watkins
17-years-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg holds a poster reading "School strike for Climate" as she protests in front of the Swedish Parliament, where she goes on school strike on January 10, 2020 in Stockholm. (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

Greta Thunberg docuseries in the works

Matthew Rozsa
Bong Joon-ho, right, reacts as he is presented with the award for best picture for "Parasite" from presenter Jane Fonda at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020. Looking on from left are Kang-Ho Song and Kwak Sin Ae. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

"Parasite" saves a dull Oscars night

Melanie McFarland
Cynthia Erivo, Greta Gerwig, Lulu Wang, Barack & Michelle Obama, and Ava DuVernay (Getty Images/Salon)

#OscarsSoDisappointing? Take heart

Kevin Smokler
Claire Danes as Carrie in HOMELAND (Sifeddine Elamine/SHOWTIME)

"Homeland" ends, but will the war?

Melanie McFarland
(Guardiano5/Getty Images)

Pornography and sexual consent

Milena Popova - MIT Press Reader
Prince performs at the First Avenue Nightclub in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1983. (Jim Steinfeldt/Michael Ochs Archives/GettyImages)

How Minneapolis created a legend

Rashad Shabazz - The Conversation
U.S. President Donald Trump gets into an exchange with Jim Acosta of CNN after giving remarks a day after the midterm elections on November 7, 2018 in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Media, stop playing by Trump's rules

Melanie McFarland
Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck/Joker in "Joker" (YouTube/Warner Bros. Pictures)

Key to success for The Joker's score

Michael Slowik - The Conversation
Dan Schneider in "The Pharmacist" (Netflix)

"The Pharmacist": A twist on true crime

D. Watkins
JOAQUIN PHOENIX as Arthur Fleck in "Joker" (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Joker, victim of its own white male rage

Matthew Rozsa
Birds Of Prey (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Birds of Prey is a fab, feminist grenade

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Oprah holding "American Dirt" by Jeanine Cummins (Apple)

Has Oprah lost her touch?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Emilia Jones and Jackson Robert Scott in "Locke & Key" (Netflix/Christos Kalohoridis)

"Locke & Key" can't unlock greatness

Ashlie D. Stevens
Tommy (CBS)

With "Tommy," CBS is trying to be woke

Melanie McFarland
Yelling Awards Statues (Getty Images/Salon)

Why Hollywood speaks up at the Oscars

Naomi McDougall Jones
Lisa Simpson and Mike Pompeo (Twentieth Century Fox/AP Photo/Salon)

"Simpsons" writer protests Pompeo tweet

Matthew Rozsa
Kirk Douglas and son Michael Douglas (AP/Globe Photos/MediaPunch /IPX)

Legendary actor Kirk Douglas dead at 103

Tim Grierson - Rolling Stone
Diahann Carroll, Barry Jenkins, Nathalie Emmanuel, Cuba Gooding Jr, Jill Scott, and John Boyega (Simon Frederick/Array/Netflix)

"They've Gotta Have Us" omits too much

Melanie McFarland
Edie Falco ("Salon Talks")

Edie Falco on cops, change & Giuliani

D. Watkins
Brad Pitt in "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood" (Sony Pictures Entertainment)

Should Brad Pitt win an acting Oscar?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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