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US actor Will Smith (R) slaps US actor Chris Rock onstage during the 94th Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on March 27, 2022. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Will Smith and the function of a slap

Jacques Berlinerblau
Ron DeSantis and Marjorie Taylor Greene | Demonstrators in favor of LGBT rights rally outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP won't stop at "don't say gay" bill

Amanda Marcotte
Protesters in New York City rally against the withdrawal of transgender protections. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Texas anti-trans law risks kids' lives

Aliza Norwood
US President Joe Biden holds a briefing outside the Royal Palace, Warsaw, Poland. (Anna Voitenko/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Biden's big mistake: Taking it back

Brian Karem
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Virginia and Clarence Thomas | Supporters of the "Peoples Convoy" wave US flags as the truck convoy heads east on Interstate Highway 70, on March 1, 2022, near St. Jacob, Illinois (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Ginni Thomas and truckers' rabbit hole

Amanda Marcotte
New York Governor Kathy Hochul holds a briefing at the State Executive office on 3rd Avenue, Manhattan, September 9, 2021. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

How New York can save Ukraine — and us

Heather Digby Parton
President Biden delivers a speech at the Royal Castle on March 26, in Warsaw, Poland. (Omar Marques/Getty Images)

Nine words: What was Biden thinking?

Norman Solomon
Jake Johnson and Ophelia Lovibond in "Minx" (Katrina Marcinowski/HBO Max)

TV's prosthetic penises reinforce taboos

Peter Lehman - The Conversation
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Aerial view showing a man walking past graves in the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery in Manaus on June 21, 2020. - The novel coronavirus has killed at least 464,423 people worldwide since the outbreak began in China last December, being Brazil Latin America's worsthit country with 49,976 deaths from 1,067,579 cases. (MICHAEL DANTAS/AFP via Getty Images)

Our unceremonious pandemic transition

Jessi Hanson-DeFusco
Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas in "Deep Water" (20th Century Studios/Hulu)

"Deep Water" gives "Gigli" a purpose

Melanie McFarland
Russian President Vladimir Putin (Kay Nietfeld/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Are these the end times? Probably not

Nathaniel Manderson
Adult man in the dark (Getty Images/Jasmin Merdan)

How masculinity is killing men

Christopher Kilmartin, Ronald F. Levant
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Amy Forsyth, Daniel Durant, Marlee Matlin and Troy Kotsur in “CODA” (Apple TV+)

Is "CODA" the "Green Book" for the deaf?

Alison Stine
Paul Dano as Edward Nashton/The Riddler in "The Batman" (Warner Bros.)

Rating Paul Dano as The Batman’s Riddler

Sabrina Reed - Winter is Coming
Elton John performs on stage during Global Citizen Live on September 25, 2021 in Paris, France (Marc Piasecki/Getty Images For Global Citizen)

Elton John at 75 isn't slowing down

Annie Zaleski
A lot of garbage in the forest on the background of modern high-rise buildings (Getty Images/PavelKant)

Is the U.S. "exceptional"? Definitely

Aviva Chomsky - TomDispatch.com
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A view of Gazproms Amur Gas Processing Plant (Yuri SmityukTASS via Getty Images)

The climate crisis–Ukraine connection

Carl Pope
Alvin Bragg and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Can anyone stop Trump?

Heather Digby Parton
The US Capitol is seen from Freedom Plaza where Supporters of President Donald Trump have gathered for a rally on January 5, 2021 in Washington, DC. Today's rally kicks off two days of pro-Trump events fueled by President Trump's continued claims of election fraud and a last ditch effort to overturn the results before Congress finalizes them on January 6. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Jan. 6: Does America even want to know?

Chauncey DeVega
American jurist, lawyer, associate justice Thurgood Marshall (1908 - 1993), who had been recently appointed Solicitor General by President Lyndon Johnson, sits behind his desk in his office at the Federal Courthouse, Washington, DC. He later became the first black Supreme Court Justice. (Sam Falk/New York Times Co./Getty Images)

KBJ hearing: Echoes of the past

Margaret M. Russell - The Conversation
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Dorris Bowdon, Jane Darwell and Henry Fonda in "The Grapes of Wrath," directed by John Ford, 1940. (20th Century Fox/Courtesy of Getty Images)

Classic literature insights on refugees

Robert F. Barsky - The Conversation
Sen. Ted Cruz (lower left) (R-TX), Sen. Josh Hawley (top left) (R-MO) and Sen. Marsha Blackburn (top right) (R-TN) confer during a break in testimony for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, March 23, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Republicans ready to roll back SCOTUS

Amanda Marcotte
Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Russian President Vladimir Putin and former US Vice President Dick Cheney (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How can America talk about "war crimes"?

Chris Hedges
Flee (Neon)

Animating conflict & refugees in "Flee"

Yael Friedman, Deborah Shaw - The Conversation
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