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Beyoncé performs during the “RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR” on June 27, 2023, in Warsaw, Poland. (Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Parkwood/Getty Images)

The real price of pop perfection

Andi Zeisler
Ocean Ramsey in "Shark Whisperer" (Netflix)

"Shark Whisperer" doc is cold-blooded

Coleman Spilde
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

SCOTUS book-ban case invites mischief

Amanda Marcotte
(Carlos Barria - Pool/Getty Images)

Dems target leaker instead of Trump lies

Charles R. Davis
Allison Williams at the "M3GAN 2.0" New York Premiere on June 24, 2025 in New York, New York. (Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty Images)

Everyone in America is a Marnie now

Coleman Spilde
California Gov. Gavin Newsom talks with President Donald Trump as First Lady Melania Trump looks on after the First Couple's arrival at Los Angeles International Airport on January 24, 2025. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Newsom can’t stop at simply trolling Fox

Sophia Tesfaye
Brad Pitt as Sonny Hayes in "F1" (Scott Garfield/Warner Bros. Pictures /Apple Original Films)

Brad Pitt's hollow race to redemption

Coleman Spilde
Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist attends a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol April 18, 2023. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The "big, beautiful" bill's true father

Heather Digby Parton
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attends a news conference on Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Ecuadorians residing in the U.S., outside the Capitol on Tuesday, November 19, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Why Trump is terrified of AOC

Amanda Marcotte
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth testifies during his Senate Armed Services confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on January 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump’s “new” war on leaks

Jesselyn Radack
Zohran Mamdani at a campaign rally in Jackson Heights, Queens, on June 21, three days before his apparent victory in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Zohran and democracy: A turning point?

Andrew O'Hehir
Natasha Lyonne (Araya Doheny/Getty Images)

Natasha Lyonne's big AI problem

Coleman Spilde
A view of the death chamber from the witness room at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility shows an electric chair and gurney August 29, 2001 in Lucasville, Ohio. The state of Ohio is one of the few states that still uses the electric chair, and it gives death row inmates a choice between death by the electric chair or by lethal injection. John W. Byrd, who will be executed on September 12, 2001, has stated that he will choose the electric chair. (Photo by Mike Simons/Getty Images)

Due process? Apparently not in Texas

Austin Sarat
Gun-control advocates hold a vigil outside of the National Rifle Association (NRA) headquarters following the recent mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 25, 2022 in Fairfax, Virginia. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

The long waiting after school shootings

Loren Kleinman
A view of the partially melting glaciers as a polar bears, one of the species most affected by climate change, walk in Svalbard and Jan Mayen, on July 15, 2023. (Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Republicans and climate change

William deBuys - TomDispatch.com
Supporters of Palestine gather at Harvard University, Oct. 14, 2023. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images)

Even now, education can be saved

Henry A. Giroux
A collection of some of our staff picks. (Photo illustration by Salon / Courtesy of Netflix, Apple TV+, Darren Vargas, Penguin Random House)

The best of 2025 . . . so far

Kelly McClure, Natalie Moore, Coleman Spilde, Melanie McFarland, Hanh Nguyen, Erin Keane, Andi Zeisler, Amanda Marcotte, Bennett Taren, Alex Galbraith, Ashlie D. Stevens
Lee Jung-jae in "Squid Game" (No Ju-han/Netflix)

Squid Game may be right about democracy

Melanie McFarland
Mariska Hargitay as seen in "My Mom Jayne" (Courtesy of HBO)

Unraveling a famous mother's legacy

Coleman Spilde
Joe Rogan: Burn the Boats (Troy Conrad/Netflix)

Joe Rogan beef shows MAGA male fragility

Amanda Marcotte
A protester stands outside of the White House the day after President Donald Trump ordered U.S. military strikes on nuclear sites in Iran. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

The resistance is still building muscle

Chauncey DeVega
Cat reading a book (Jordan Lye/Getty Images)

We're banning cat books now?

Andi Zeisler
President Donald Trump arrives at the NATO Heads of State and Government summit in The Hague, on June 25, 2025. (NICOLAS TUCAT / AFP)

Nobody puts "Daddy" in a corner

Brian Karem
Zohran Mamdani, presumptive Democratic New York City mayoral nominee, celebrates his onstage with Rama Duwaji, Mahmood Mamdani and Mira Nair (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

The unhinged reactions to Mamdani's win

Sophia Tesfaye
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