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Inde Navarrette (Brianna Bryson/FilmMagic/Getty Images)

The men who think actresses owe them

Kristen Lopez
Sen. Mitch McConnell arrives for a vote at the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 14, 2026. It was his first public appearance in more than 90 days. (Finn Gomez/Getty Images)

Mitch is back and it’s terrifying

Troy Farah
Donald Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson at the Formula One Grand Prix of Monaco, June 7, 2026. (Arnold Jerocki / FilmMagic)

Don Jr.'s wedding, a corruption story

Sophia Tesfaye
President Donald Trump (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)

Trump says he's respected. World says no

Heather Digby Parton
Ed Sheeran performs at TD Garden in Boston, Dec. 14, 2025. (Paras Griffin/Getty Images for iHeartRadio)

Sheeran's a coward: Can you blame him?

Alex Galbraith
Author and TV personality Anthony Bourdain (Slaven Vlasic / Getty Images)

Bourdain couldn't quit the kitchen

Francesca Giangiulio
Sydney Sweeney (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic/getty images)

Sydney Sweeney has no endgame

Coleman Spilde
Donald Trump walks on stage during the first day of the 2026 Republican "midterm convention" in Dallas, Sept. 9, 2026. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

White House is terrified of Trump videos

Amanda Marcotte
(Yuuji/Getty Images)

Are we in the AI end times?

Troy Farah
Hide your vegetables. You're an adult (twomeows / Getty Images)

Hide your vegetables. You're an adult

Ashlie D. Stevens
Mariska Hargitay performs onstage during the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theater on Sept. 14, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. (Chloe Kern / WireImage)

The Emmy crimes of Mariska Hargitay

Melanie McFarland
Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman in "Practical Magic 2" (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Some sequels are destined to disappoint

Coleman Spilde
Marathon Petroleum Corp's Los Angeles Refinery, one of the largest oil refineries in the North America on March 10, 2026. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

Trump's own energy crisis traps him

Troy Farah
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth attends a Mexican Border Defense Medal Ceremony at the Pentagon on July 27, 2026. (Annabelle GORDON / AFP)

Pete Hegseth's polygraph theater

Jesselyn Radack
Earth Wind & Fire perform at Music for UNICEF Concert at The United Nations in New York, on January 9, 1979. (Michael Putland/Getty Images)

Your instant mood fix soundtrack

Melanie McFarland
Abdul El-Sayed, Zohran Mamdani, Hasan Piker and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. (Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Finn Gomez / John Nacion / Noushad Thekkayil / ANGELA WEISS)

America's wet hot socialist summer

Michael Tedder
All the administrations after 9/11 have caved to the temptation to skirt civil liberties in the name of protecting “the homeland” (Getty Images)

The security state we never turned off

Heather Digby Parton
Nara Smith at the Net-a-Porter Incredible Women Cocktail in New York (Aurora Rose/WWD via Getty Images)

The tradwife brand is crumbling

Melanie McFarland
A volunteer grabs a gallon of water at a water and food distribution drive held by College Hill Baptist Church and the World Central kitchen on March 07, 2021 in Jackson, Mississippi. Residents in parts of Jackson, Mississippi, where 80% of the residents are Black, have been without running water since mid-February after the city was hit by back-to-back winter storms. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Lying about clean water will backfire

Troy Farah
There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of Silicon Valley's warnings of A.I.-induced doom (Getty Images)

If AI kills us, don't blame the machine

Alex Galbraith
(Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / AaronP / Bauer-Griffin / Matthew Nichols)

Snobbery is making a comeback — finally

Coleman Spilde
President George W. Bush meets with Islamic community and religious leaders during a tour of the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C., on Sept. 17, 2001. ( PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP via Getty Images)

What Bush got right after 9/11

Nihad Awad
People walk through the Sept. 11 Memorial site a day before commemorations to mark the 25th anniversary of the attacks. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Can America ever move past 9/11?

Alex Galbraith
Donald Trump, after addressing attendees on the first day of the 2026 Republican National Convention in Dallas, Sept. 9, 2026. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump's bribe: 9/11's dark legacy

Brian Karem
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