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Ryan Reynolds in his Deadpool costume speaks during 2026 Comic-Con International in San Diego, July 25, 2026. (Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

Politics is broken — but Comic Con isn't

Brian Karem
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche (Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images)

The reason Blanche won't drop slush fund

Amanda Marcotte
A still from "Kiki's Delivery Service." (1989 Eiko Kadono/Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli, N)

A magical Miyazaki cure for burnout

Melanie McFarland
People visit a makeshift memorial at the intersection where Corey Ruiz was shot and killed by Madison Police on July 23, 2026 in Madison, Wisconsin. (Scott Olson/Getty Images))

Accountability can't stop at ICE

Insha Rahman
In a scene from "Hadestown," actors Eva Noblezada and Reeve Carney demonstrate the capacity to hold another’s reality without collapsing it into their own. (Walter McBride/Getty Images)

Performing arts and the empathy crisis

Stephen Brown-Fried, Pablo Helguera
Vice President JD Vance (Mark Schiefelbein-Pool/Getty Images)

Vance will never be the GOP Obama

Amanda Marcotte
The Republicans' new Education Freedom Tax Credit will siphon money away from public schools that most need it (Celal Güne/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Private school on the public's dime

Glenn Sacks
Donald Trump and Elon Musk (Brandon Bell / Getty Images)

Trump and Musk's history obsession

Sonja Drimmer
Attendees react to a talk given by Riley Gaines during the Turning Point USA Young Women's Leadership Summit (Sam Hodde for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The right's Gen-Z influencer pipeline

Andi Zeisler
Secretary of State Marco Rubio (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Fighting Marco Rubio's enemies list

Keri Leigh Merritt
Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer in "Ride or Die" (Amazon Prime Video)

The small-screen seduction of middle age

Melanie McFarland
The golf course at Trump National Doral now features a 22-foot golden statue of its namesake. (Ben Jared / PGA TOUR / Getty Images)

The last gasp of Trump's foreign policy

Andrew O'Hehir
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (Pet Hegseth)

Hegseth's Iran war math doesn't add up

Heather Digby Parton
A young man reading "The Catcher in the Rye" (Craig F. Walker/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Was Holden Caulfield performative?

Andi Zeisler
Adrian McElwee in "Remake" (Music Box Films)

"Remake" offers a new view of grief

Coleman Spilde
(Courtesy of HBO)

Burning Man was flawed from the start

Melanie McFarland
President Trump during an Oval Office press conference with faith leaders. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump has quit caring about the midterms

Brian Karem
Caught in a Netflix streaming hole (nanci santos/Getty Images)

Netflix is turning your brain to mush

Coleman Spilde
Is there such a thing as too many books? (Alexander Spatari/Getty Images)

How many books is too many?

Andi Zeisler
Anthea Hartig, director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, faced criticism from Heritage Foundation fellow Mike Gonzalez and House Republicans at a congressional hearing (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

MAGA wants its history simple

Alex Galbraith
FBI Director Kash Patel (Photo by Will Lester/Getty Images)

The FBI has become ICE's co-conspirator

Austin Sarat, Katherine P. Blumstein
Seniors are often on the front lines of anti-Trump protests (Ryan Caron King/Connecticut Public via Getty Images)

MAGA could lose its war on seniors

Heather Digby Parton
Elon Musk, during a news conference with President Donald Trump on May 30, 2025 inside the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. (Photo by Tom Brenner For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Musk: AI will make accurate "Odyssey"

Alex Galbraith
Inde Navarrette as Nikki and Michael Johnston as Bear in "Obsession" (Focus Features)

"Obsession" hasn't earned classic status

Coleman Spilde
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