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Starbucks union bus served the picket line of striking SAG-AFTRA and WGA in solidarity outside Netflix studios on July 28, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Why labor is losing even as unions win

Mark Kreidler - Capital & Main
Avatar: The Last Airbender (Netflix)

Airbender's conflicted racial evolution

Kelly Pau
Kiawentiio as Katara in "Avatar: The Last Airbender" (Courtesy of Netflix)

How "Avatar" gets Katara all wrong

Nardos Haile
Amy Coney Barrett, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts and Samuel Alito (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

SCOTUS is broken — can it be fixed?

Paul Rosenberg
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A Bible And A Nonbinary Flag (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A warped Bible killed Nex Benedict

Serene Jones
Woman tying running shoes (Getty Images/BROOK PIFER)

Laken Riley: Perils of female running

Gabriella Ferrigine
Ron Livingston, David Herman and Ajay Naidu in "Office Space". (Getty Images)

"Office Space," the film that never quit

Melanie McFarland
Donald Trump | Nuclear Blast (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump sets off a new nuclear arms race

Heather Digby Parton
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American alt-right political activist Jack Posobiec speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting on February 23, 2024, in National Harbor, Maryland. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Project 2025's other agenda

Andra Watkins
Yemeni men walk past a mural depicting a US drone and reading " Why did you kill my family" on December 13, 2013 in the capital Sanaa. (MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP via Getty Images)

There was another Oct. 7 — 23 years ago

Andrea Mazzarino - TomDispatch.com
Comedian/actor Richard Lewis hosts the Video Software Dealers Association's award show on July 27, 2005 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Richard Lewis, prophet of anxiety comedy

David Masciotra
Kareem Grimes as Uncle Mike and Vince Staples as Vince Staples in "The Vince Staples Show" (Courtesy of Netflix)

Vince Staples: The next Larry David?

D. Watkins
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US Senate Minority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) walks at the US Capitol on February 28, 2024 in Washington, DC. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Good riddance to Mitch McConnell

Brian Karem
US President Donald Trump and Supreme Court Justice John Roberts (Getty Images/Salon)

SCOTUS slow walks us to dictatorship

Thomas G. Moukawsher
Former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for a pre-trial hearing in a hush-money case at Manhattan Criminal Court on February 15, 2024 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

NYC is finally ready to dump Trump

Kirk Swearingen
Utkarsh Ambudkar as King Bumi and Daniel Dae Kim as Fire Lord Ozai in Netflix's "Avatar: The Last Airbender" (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Netflix)

"Avatar" and the American voter’s choice

Melanie McFarland
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Potato Masher (Getty Images/Michaela Gunter)

Your potato masher is no "unitasker"

Michael La Corte
U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) gives remarks ahead of a Capitol Menorah lighting ceremony at the U.S. Capitol Building on December 12, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

It's time for Mike Johnson to step up

Heather Digby Parton
Former U.S. President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump gestures at the end of a campaign event in Waterloo, Iowa, on December 19, 2023. (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Can religion save Donald Trump?

Chauncey DeVega
Police take security measures and investigate the crime scene after 25-year-old Aaron Bushnell, an active-duty member of the US Air Force, set himself on fire Sunday outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. in protest against the war in Gaza on February 25, 2024. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

A self-immolation and American reckoning

Kody Cava
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Mike Johnson, Donald Trump and Kellyanne Conway (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The GOP's coming for birth control next

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Close-up Of Hands Holding A Vape And Cigarettes (Getty Images/AndreyPopov)

Black Americans need tobacco substitutes

Robert “Bob” Beamon
Former U.S. President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom during his civil fraud trial at New York Supreme Court on January 11, 2024 in New York City. (Seth Wenig-Pool/Getty Images)

The bad timing of Trump's trials

Gregg Barak
Nikki Haley and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP primaries could be a trap for Trump

Heather Digby Parton
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