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Lisa Kudrow in "The Comeback" (Erin Simkin/HBO)

On The Comeback, AI gets the last laugh

Melanie McFarland
Sarah Michelle Gellar (Stephane Cardinale/Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

Can Sarah Michelle Gellar catch a break?

Coleman Spilde
Oil futures trading soared on March 23 just before President Donald Trump announced "productive" peace talks with Iran (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

The trades before Trump’s reversal

Heather Digby Parton
ICE agents at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (Megan Varner/Getty Images)

ICE at the airport is just the beginning

Chauncey DeVega
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Lindy West attends the Hulu "Shrill" FYC screening at the Television Academy (Erik Voake/Getty Images for Hulu/Getty Images)

People really love to see feminists fail

Andi Zeisler
(Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Is this WWIII? It's the wrong question

Troy Farah
An ICE agent at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

ICE at airports: Trump troll backfires

Amanda Marcotte
President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio (CARLOS BARRIA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Next for Cuba: A GOP oligarchy

Heather Digby Parton
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Attorney General Pam Bondi, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are among the Cabinet and White House officials who have been granted military housing (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

A Cabinet behind military gates

Chauncey DeVega
Michelle Pfeiffer as Stacy Clyburn in "The Madison" (Emerson Miller/Paramount+)

A woman's place is in an isolated cabin

Melanie McFarland
Vice President JD Vance (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

How Iran emasculated JD Vance

Amanda Marcotte
Rose Byrne in "Tow" (Roadside Attractions)

Rose Byrne's strange post-Oscars move

Coleman Spilde
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Harrison Sullivan (HS Tikky Tokky) in "Inside the Manosphere" (Netflix)

"Inside the Manosphere" with my son

Andi Zeisler
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testifies before the House Select Intelligence Committee (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Tulsi Gabbard’s Iran pivot

Heather Digby Parton
Ryan Gosling as Ryland Grace in "Project Hail Mary" (Amazon MGM Studios/Jonathan Olley)

"Project Hail Mary" is movie medicine

Coleman Spilde
Taylor Frankie Paul, star of ABC’s “The Bachelorette” (Disney/Sami Drasin)

The Taylor Frankie Paul reality check

Melanie McFarland
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President Donald Trump is facing criticism from Republicans over his administration's handling of two shooting deaths by federal agents in Minneapolis. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump and the politics of death

Chauncey DeVega
Love in the age of AI (demaerre/Getty Images)

Is anyone safe from AI dating?

Andi Zeisler
President Donald Trump (SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)

Who will stop Trump on Iran?

Brian Karem
In the chauvinist world of the online right, OnlyFans and solitary sex in front of a phone or computer are major obsessions (Getty Images)

Gen Z Republicans obsess over “gooning”

Amanda Marcotte
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Maika Monroe as Kenna Rowan and Tyriq Withers as Ledger Ward in "Reminders of Him" (Michelle Faye / Universal Pictures)

More schmaltzy melodramas, please!

Coleman Spilde
President Donald Trump (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

“America First” becomes America alone

Heather Digby Parton
President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump’s shoe gifts keep Cabinet in line

Chauncey DeVega
Maikel Garcia of Team Venezuela defeating Team USA in the 2026 World Baseball Classic championship game. (Daniel Shirey/WBCI/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

Baseball resists the war mindset

Alex Galbraith
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