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"Shameless" cast Season 11 (Paul Sarkis/Showtime)

A gentrified farewell to "Shameless"

Ashlie D. Stevens
Woman takes a selfie on a break from rollerblading (Getty Images)

Sports bras & leggings as femininity now

Holly Thorpe, Julie E. Brice - The Conversation
Poet Nikki Giovanni who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee (Mireya Acierto/WireImage)

Black poets give a voice to Affrilachia

Amy M. Alvarez, Jameka Hartley - The Conversation
Laura Donnelly in "The Nevers" (Keith Bernstein/HBO)

"The Nevers" is just a steampunk "Buffy"

Melanie McFarland
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Ernest Hemingway at his home Cuba, late 1940s. (Courtesy of Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Boston)

Ken Burns' vicious Hemingway smear

David Masciotra
Class Action Park (HBO Max)

Tired of true crime? Try these 5 docs

Ashlie D. Stevens
Yahya Mahayni in "The Man Who Sold His Skin" (Samuel Goldwyn Films)

The value of "The Man Who Sold His Skin"

Gary M. Kramer
Kong in "Godzilla vs. Kong" (Warner Bros. Pictures/ Legendary Pictures)

Godzilla vs. Kong recalls colonial fears

Priscilla Jolly - The Conversation
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A woman poses for photos during the sakura, cherry blossom, bloom in Tokyo, Japan (Yuichi Yamazaki/Getty Images)

Chasing the fleeting beauty of sakura

Nozomi Uematsu - The Conversation
John Roberts (Alexander Thompson)

John Roberts never tires of the Beatles

Nicole Michael
Natalie Portman in "Léon: The Professional" | Danielle Bregoli (aka Bhad Bhabie) | Emma Watson in the Harry Potter movie franchise (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Warner Brothers/Gaumont/Columbia Pictures)

A shift in the sexualization of starlets

Manuela Lopez Restrepo
Concrete Cowboy (Netflix)

Black cowboys and urban riding clubs

Nick Lehr - The Conversation
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Samantha Bee, Trevor Noah, John Oliver and Kate McKinnon (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Comedy Central/NBC/TBS/Warner Media Group)

Is political comedy dead now?

Sophia A. McClennen
Them (Amazon)

Scare goes the neighborhood in "Them"

Melanie McFarland
US First Lady Jill Biden deplanes upon arrival at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on April 1, 2021. (MANDEL NGAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Sexism, hypocrisy & Jill Biden's tights

Ashlie D. Stevens
Kayla Cromer and Josh Thomas in "Everything's Gonna Be Okay" (Ser Baffo/Freeform)

The best comedy on TV is "Everything"

Matthew Rozsa
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The Washington Post headquarters building, on K Street in Washington, D.C. (Photo by ERIC BARADAT/AFP via Getty Images)

Who should cover sexual assault stories?

Kylie Cheung - DAME
Fans celebrate Pride Night before a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers at Fenway Park (Adam Glanzman/Getty Images)

Sports still hostile for LGBTQ Americans

Rachel Allison, Chris Knoester - The Conversation
NFT CryptoArt display in an art gallery (Gremlin/Getty stock photo)

Why would anyone buy crypto art?

Aaron Hertzmann - The Conversation
FBI photograph of the crime scene after the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum robbery. (Netflix)

The art of a brazen, unsolved art heist

Ashlie D. Stevens
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Caisa Ankarsparre in "Exterminate All the Brutes" (Velvet Film/David Koskas/HBO)

When was America great – and for whom?

Gary M. Kramer
Justice League: Snyder Cut (Photo is courtesy of HBO Max)

Whedon's Justice League abuses detailed

Ashlie D. Stevens
Nasim Pedrad attends the 2019 Glamour Women Of The Year Awards at Alice Tully Hall on November 11, 2019 in New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Glamour)

Nasim Pedrad finds her inner boy "Chad"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Meghan McCain on The View (ABC)

McCain rails against MLB and Joe Biden

Manuela Lopez Restrepo
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