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Florence Pugh as Lib Wright in "The Wonder" (Christopher Barr/Netflix)

Starving bodies as public spectacle

Debra Ferreday - The Conversation
Hayley Williams of Paramore performs at Day 1 of Pinkpop at Megaland on June 14, 2013 in Landgraaf, Netherlands. (Mark Venema/Getty Images)

Why 2022 was the year of emo revival

Judith Fathallah - The Conversation
Kanye West (Getty/Oliver Contreras)

Ye, DeSantis and resurgent antisemitism

Henry A. Giroux
Actor John Travolta dancing with actress Karen Gorney in the movie "Saturday Night Fever" (Getty Images/Bettmann)

"Saturday Night Fever's" legacy at 45

Aaron Aradillas
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Rosemary Clooney, Danny Kaye, Bing Crosby, Vera-Ellen and children pose for picture in a scene from the film 'White Christmas', 1954. (Paramount/Getty Images)

Our plucky Christmas fundraising fantasy

Alison Stine
Mallori Johnson as Dana in "Kindred" (Tina Rowden/FX)

The long road to adapting Octavia Butler

Alison Stine
Israel's ex-premier and leader of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu addresses supporters at campaign headquarters in Jerusalem early on November 2, 2022, after the end of voting for national elections. (RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel veers into far-right extremism

Chris Hedges
Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Courtesy of Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex (Courtesy of Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex)

Even if Harry & Meghan "win," they lose

Melanie McFarland
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US President Joe Biden | Senator Eugene McCarthy, 1968 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Joe Biden and the lessons of 1968

Jeff Cohen, Norman Solomon
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., addresses the media after a meeting about avoiding a railroad worker strike with President Joe Biden at the White House on Tuesday, November 29, 2022. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Kevin McCarthy's painful dilemma

Heather Digby Parton
D Watkins (Photo illustration by Salon)

2022: A year of unpredictable losses

D. Watkins
Elon Musk, left center, and Wendell P. Weeks, right center, listen to President Donald Trump, right, as he meets with business leaders at the White House on Monday January 23, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

How Trump and Musk build their cults

Amanda Marcotte
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Supporters wait for the arrival of former U.S. President Donald Trump during an event at his Mar-a-Lago home on November 15, 2022 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Trumpism: A symptom, not a cause

Chauncey DeVega
Cyndi Lauper performs before President Joe Biden signs the Respect for Marriage Act on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Dec. 13, 2022. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

Did Biden take a bad deal on marriage?

Brian Karem
Thousands march and rally in support of legal abortion access after the U.S. Supreme court overturned the federal constitutional right to an abortion. Anti and pro demonstraters hold up signs showing their different opinions. Anti demonstrators yelling that Jesus would not forgive them. (Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Catholic bishops' abortion shift

Celia Viggo Wexler
File photo of the death chamber at the Texas Department of Corrections (Getty Images/Bettmann )

Lethal injection: 40 years of failure

Austin Sarat
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Will Smith at the premiere of Apple Original Films' "Emancipation" held at Regency Village Theatre on November 30, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images)

Will Smith's bizarre PR trauma platform

Melanie McFarland
Trump advisor Steve Bannon (L) watches as US President Donald Trump greets Elon Musk, SpaceX and Tesla CEO, before a policy and strategy forum with executives in the State Dining Room of the White House February 3, 2017 in Washington, DC. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Elon is the new Trump: But will it last?

Heather Digby Parton
Terrence A. Duffy, CEO of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Sam Bankman-Fried (in focus), CEO of FTX US Derivatives, Christopher Edmonds, chief development officer of the Intercontinental Exchange, and Christopher Perkins, president of CoinFund, testify during the House Agriculture Committee hearing titled Changing Market Roles: The FTX Proposal and Trends in New Clearinghouse Models, in Longworth Building on Thursday, May 12, 2022 (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Crypto: The white male privilege scam

Amanda Marcotte
John Roberts | Supreme Court (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

John Roberts won't save democracy

David Daley
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Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How popular widower rom-coms fail us

Lauren Hakimi
Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Bored of Trump? OK, but don't look away

Chauncey DeVega
US Women National Basketball Association's (WNBA) basketball player Brittney Griner, who was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and later charged with illegal possession of cannabis, is escorted to the courtroom to hear the court's final decision in Khimki outside Moscow, on August 4, 2022. (KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images)

Griner's release exposes GOP homophobia

Amanda Marcotte
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks at a news conference with members of the House Freedom Caucus on Capitol Hill September 15, 2022 in Washington, DC (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Kevin McCarthy makes a devil's bargain

Heather Digby Parton
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