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Prince Harry (KOEN VAN WEEL/AFP via Getty Images)

Think "Spare" is TMI? It's not about you

Alison Stine
Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) takes a photo with U.S. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) after being elected Speaker of the House in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 07, 2023 in Washington, DC. ( Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Fascists in the House: Danger is real

Chauncey DeVega
U.S. President Joe Biden (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Biden 2024: Now an even worse idea

Norman Solomon
Toddler and American soldier eating lunch together (Getty Images/MivPiv)

In our bloated military, some go hungry

Andrea Mazzarino - TomDispatch.com
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Photographer Richard Avedon planning his retrospective exhibition at New York's Marlborough Gallery, photographed August 27, 1975. (Jack Mitchell/Getty Images)

Richard Avedon's brutal photography

Rebecca Senf - The Conversation
(from left) Cady (Violet McGraw), M3GAN and Gemma (Allison Williams) in "M3GAN" (Geoffrey Short/Universal Pictures)

How "M3GAN" weaponizes music

Alison Stine
Colin Farrell in "The Banshees of Inisherin." (Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures/Photo by Jonathan Hession.)

"Banshees": Concepts of justice wage war

Eamonn Jordan - The Conversation
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Frank Rockstroh/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty)

MLK.'s lessons in resistance

Chauncey DeVega
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English singer-songwriter Elton John performs on stage during the 'Farewell Yellow Brick Road'-Tour in the 3Arena in Dublin on June 12, 2019. (Debbie Hickey/Getty Images)

Why Elton John finds retirement tough

Michael Bonshor - The Conversation
LinkedIn logo seen displayed on a smartphone. (Photo Illustration by Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The new breed of influencer on LinkedIn

Theo Tzanidis - The Conversation
Jeff Beck performs during the Helsinki Blues Festival at Kaisaniemen Puisto on June 19, 2022 in Helsinki, Finland (Venla Shalin/Redferns/Getty)

Jeff Beck's unorthodox guitar techniques

Milton Mermikides, John McGrath - The Conversation
Illegal fentanyl is safely handled and contained. (Getty Images/Darwin Brandis)

Fentanyl panic mirrors crack epidemic

Ryan Hampton
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Judith Light, Reed Birney, Paul Adelstein, Janet McTeer, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, John Leguizamo, Aimee Carrero, Rob Yang, Arturo Castro, and Mark St. Cyr in "The Menu" (Eric Zachanowich/Searchlight Pictures)

In defense of "The Menu" diners

Alison Stine
Wooden cross on a hilltop at sunset (Getty Images/Photos by R A Kearton)

Not quite losing my religion

Nathaniel Manderson
The decadent "compromise meatball" (Dave Bonomi)

How does a "compromise meatball" taste?

Maggie Hennessy
Antonia Gentry as Ginny and Brianne Howey as Georgia in "Ginny & Georgia." (Courtesy of Netflix)

"Ginny & Georgia" has a tone problem

Alison Stine
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Rich Scottish Fold (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Even Taylor Swift's cats are capitalists

Olivia Luppino
Damar Hamlin #3 of the Buffalo Bills celebrates a play against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Highmark Stadium on October 9, 2022 in Orchard Park, New York (Timothy T Ludwig/Getty Images)

Football's big problem is ... football

Irvin Muchnick
Gay pride rainbow flag with Star of David, pinned to a stone wall (Getty Images/peterspiro)

Gender & sexuality affect antisemitism

Mie Astrup Jensen - The Conversation
Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., in 1954. (Bettmann / Contributor via Getty Images)

GOP's new "Church Committee": Not quite!

Heather Digby Parton
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Riot police monitor protesters near a CVS pharmacy that was looted and burned by rioters on Monday after the funeral of Freddie Gray, on April 29, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

Why I say we should defund the police

D. Watkins
Cigarette butts and an empty pack of Newports sit in an ashtray outside of the Hart Senate Office Building (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images)

GOP: Making smoking great again

Amanda Marcotte
Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) speaks to reporters on his way to a closed-door GOP caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol January 10, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

The myth of the "moderate Republican"

Norman Solomon, Jeff Cohen
President Joe Biden during a message to the media as part of the 2023 North American Leaders' Summit at Palacio Nacional on Jan. 10, 2023 in Mexico City. (Hector Vivas/Getty Images)

Two years after Jan. 6: Is reality gone?

Brian Karem
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