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Film is — and always will be — political
Coleman Spilde
With studios merging and slashers becoming controversy catalysts, cinema needs to be considered a political tool
Teen mothers were silenced in 1960s maternity homes. Could it happen again?
Andi Zeisler
Kate Schatz’s "Where the Girls Were" revisits an era of secrecy, shame and girls pressured to give up their babies
Bruce Springsteen draws a line from “Peter Pan” to “Born to Run”
Carlee Migliorisi
Springsteen reveals how a childhood love of Peter and Wendy led to a time-honored hit
Watching “Bridgerton” in a “Heated Rivalry” world
Melanie McFarland
In refreshingly different ways, these lusty pleasures have freed TV's hero romances from straight expectations
Why right-wing media can’t stop Candace Owens
Sophia Tesfaye
Erika Kirk’s defense of herself gets drowned out by “Bride of Charlie” documentary
The Epstein files are conspiracy-pilling everybody
Andi Zeisler
The deliberately opaque releases and redactions are bringing America’s biggest conspiracy theories back
Historians resist Trump’s effort to police the past
Chauncey DeVega
Attempts to reshape the Smithsonian reflect a broader campaign to control public memory and what Americans learn
In “Industry,” queerness is capital
Coleman Spilde
The gripping HBO drama is gayer than ever, but don't expect its backstabbing characters to make a fuss about it
The BAFTAs have us arguing over the wrong words
Melanie McFarland
Assigning guilt over a slur yelled at the British Academy Film Awards ignores the real issues: impact and intent
Trump is swift boating the midterms
Heather Digby Parton
POTUS is considering an executive order declaring a voting emergency. Its main instigator helped sink John Kerry
The women of “Pretty in Pink” deserved better
Coleman Spilde
Forty years on, it's time to admit John Hughes' film is worse off for dulling Andie and Iona's shine
Everyone should live like Miss Piggy
Melanie McFarland
Celebrated in a culture that teaches girls to shrink themselves, Miss Piggy has long stood as a glittering rebuttal
Salmon is the real “Traitors” power player
Francesca Giangiulio
On the cutthroat reality show, the players’ favorite breakfast harbors its own secrets
Abolish ICE? Absolutely — and DHS too
Mike Lofgren
No reform can fix Trump’s corrupt secret police — and the whole bureaucracy of repression should go as well
The risky reinvention of Paul McCartney
Kenneth Womack
Filmmaker Morgan Neville explores Paul McCartney’s most human chapter in "Man on the Run"
Punch the monkey deserves better. And we do too
Andi Zeisler
His viral stardom and the scramble for stuffed orangutans show how quickly — and cravenly — trauma becomes trend
The uplifting medicine of “Scrubs”
Melanie McFarland
For some, this sitcom's jabbing satire is easier to swallow than the cutting realism of "The Pitt"
Trump sends Supreme Court clear message: I am the law
Chauncey DeVega
The president views the nation's highest court as a rubber stamp, not a co-equal branch of government
In Westeros, the soul outweighs the body
Nicholas Liu
"A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" shows that true knighthood is supreme grace, not an invented tradition
Why we’d rather watch strangers tidy than do it ourselves
Andi Zeisler
From “Sunday resets” to “house burping,” mundane chores are being rebranded as aspirational lifestyle content
How the Gaza war changed America
Nicholas Liu
Historian Bruce Robbins argues Gaza has shifted the debate over how and when the label is used
The musical dialogue between Bob Dylan and Black America
Caryn Rose
"Highway of Diamonds" showcases decades of Black artists reshaping and sometimes radically reframing Dylan's work
How Epstein’s influence shaped the exclusion of women in STEM
Jessica Kutz
In one email, an AI researcher suggested it’s “hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat"
The “Wuthering Heights” double standard
Coleman Spilde
Emerald Fennell's film is not the first Jacob Elordi-starring remix of a classic novel. Why is it so hated?
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