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Brenda Blethyn in "A Woman of Substance." (Courtesy of BritBox)

A tale of rags, riches and revenge

Melanie McFarland
Secretary of State Marco Rubio (Saul Loeb/Pool - Getty Images)

Rubio goes to war against global justice

Heather Digby Parton
(iStock / Getty Images Plus)

Paying for fresh air? It could happen

Troy Farah
Matt Damon as Odysseus and Zendaya as Athena in "The Odyssey" (Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal)

Nolan's "The Odyssey" is pointless

Coleman Spilde
Ikea catalogs (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Bring back the catalogs

Andi Zeisler
FIFA President Gianni Infantino (Daniela Porcelli/Getty Images)

FIFA keeps failing women

Gillian Kane
Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Laundering political money through God

Andrew Daugherty
Javier Bardem in "Cape Fear." (Apple TV)

"Cape Fear" has me rooting for Max Cady

Melanie McFarland
Sam Neill In "In the Mouth of Madness" (New Line Cinema/Getty Images)

Sam Neill, king of the creature feature

Coleman Spilde
President Donald Trump (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Trump is trapped in his own forever war

Brian Karem
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Hegseth wants to measure your manhood

Amanda Marcotte
Your safety is worth more than that selfie (bennymarty/Getty Images)

Wild animals don't exist for content

Andi Zeisler
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Press freedom is the new terrorism

Jesselyn Radack
Still from "My Neighbor Totoro." (©1988 Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli)

The gentle joy of "My Neighbor Totoro"

Melanie McFarland
Letterboxd (Sebastian Gollnow/picture alliance via Getty Images)

If Letterboxd sells out, the people lose

Coleman Spilde
Graham Platner withdrew from the Maine Senate race following an allegation of sexual assault from a former partner (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

MAGA is wooing Platner's male fans now

Amanda Marcotte
Argentina's Lionel Messi during the quarter final match between Argentina and Switzerland at the 2026 FIFA World Cup (Xu Chang/Xinhua via Getty Images)

The quiet answer to MAGA manhood

Dimitrios Aletras Jr.
President Donald Trump at the 2026 NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

NATO’s summit of love that wasn't

Heather Digby Parton
Protestors hold signs during a press conference inside the rotunda of the Missouri State Capitol Building on September 10, 2025 in Jefferson City, Missouri. Activists and concerned voters descended on the Missouri Capitol to protest the current plan on redistricting maps ahead of the midterm elections. (Photo by (Michael Thomas/Getty Images)

Trump’s slow dismantling of elections

Chauncey DeVega
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., died on July 11, 2026. (Tom Brenner/Getty Images)

There were two Lindsey Grahams

Jason Kyle Howard
Technology overload (sorbetto/Getty Images)

It's time to reclaim the Luddite

Andi Zeisler
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

New DHS boss, same old lies

Amanda Marcotte
Miles Gutierrez-Riley as Otto, John Slattery as himself, Ben Wang as Caleb, Ken Marino as Vincent and Zoey Deutch as Gail Daughtry in "Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass" (Sony Pictures Classics)

"Gail Daughtry" is absurdism done right

Coleman Spilde
Secretary of State Marco Rubio (Finn Gomez/Getty Images)

Marco Rubio's far-left terrorism crusade

Heather Digby Parton
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